. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 81 produce such similar results. For the beaker-folk and roundhead type are both admittedly Central European types ; and at both periods the two occur as exceptional features in cultures with mainly southern affinities. The chief dif&culty in tracing migrations by means of industrial types—always a dangerous proceeding when not checked at everv' point by anatomical e\'idence—lies in the difficulty of selecting the " key ; This is peculiarly difficult when dealing with the " Azilian- Tardenoisean microlithic " industry, which ra
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 81 produce such similar results. For the beaker-folk and roundhead type are both admittedly Central European types ; and at both periods the two occur as exceptional features in cultures with mainly southern affinities. The chief dif&culty in tracing migrations by means of industrial types—always a dangerous proceeding when not checked at everv' point by anatomical e\'idence—lies in the difficulty of selecting the " key ; This is peculiarly difficult when dealing with the " Azilian- Tardenoisean microlithic " industry, which ranges from South Africa to Scandina%'ia and from Cornwall to India. Only by a close study of selected unmixed type-stations can results of any ethnological value be obtained. The time is not yet ripe for generalities. Mr. Burkitt is seen at his best in his chapters on Art, though he is apt to wander off into too many fascinating side-issues. O. G. S. C. 'Since the above was written Prof. R. A. S. Macalister has published the first volume of his Textbook of Archeology (Cambridge University Press, 50s.), which promises fulfilment of our reviewer's requirements.—Ed.] The WUch-Ciilt in Western Europe. A Study in Anthro- pology. By Margaret Alice Murray. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, i6s.) This is, we believe, the most extensive study of the subject yet made by a British anthropologist. Black- magic and devil-worship have existed side by side with estabUshed religion from the dawn of history. One is apt, however, to imagine that such things did not hold a dangerous sway in Great Britain after the introduction of Christianity till the fifteenth century. Such is not the case, and the reasons why we hear so much of witches in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries is due to the destructive attention that post-Reformation England and Scotland bestowed upon them at this time. It is from the records of the vast number of trials of witches during this period that most of our
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