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Those who desire to obtain a general knowledge concerning the records of prehistoric man in Europe during the Stone Age will find material to satisfy intelligent curiosity in Professor Rau's presentation of the subject. * * * The volume presents, in language adapted to popular comprehension, the results of the researches of the last thirty-five years, beginning with Dr. Perthe's famous discoveries in the gravel beds of the Somme, in 1841, and ending with the discovery of the Neanderthal skull, in 1857. Professor Rau has clothed a dry subject with a romantic interest. He has collected the human relics of the Drift period, and the remains of the lower animals that existed at the same time, and from these data has reproduced the life of the cave-dwellers, and the primitive inhabitants of the lake settlements. His illustrations of the implements, artistic products, and numerous memorials of prehistoric men, embellish the interesting narrative, and commend the book to all who seek information upon the subject on which it treats. The style is specially noteworthy for its clearness and vivacity, while the large type and clearly defined illustrations are additional attractions in its favor. -Providence Journal. It furnishes all the facts which the general reader will care to know upon the subject, and is so fully and clearly illustrated that the early inhabitants of Europe, both man and beast, and the implements which were used by the former, are made pleasantly familiar. -Boston Daily Globe. It is so clear and concise, so stripped of unnecessary and unavoidable technicalities, that it can be read with profit and pleasure by any one of ordinary intelligence, however lacking he may be in anything like a special knowledge of archaeological mysteries. -Philadelphia Inquirer.

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