consist of support sticks to which _kike parase_ were lashed, both support and _inao_ being cut to neat sloping surfaces for fitting. The shorter sticks were cut with a single sloping stroke, giving a “face,” which was slit across with one cut, “the mouth”; in each mouth _inao_ shavings were thrust. The shorter sticks are said to be merely ornamental; the longer ones are sacred. The one to the left is the moon, the next the wells, next bears, the rest are mountains in which bears are hunted. [Illustration: GREAT INAO: KIKE PARASE.] [Illustration: AINU IN CANOE: SARU RIVER.] In Yezo, when an Ainu has been away from the village and returns, his home-coming is made a public occasion. All the people gather, someone being their spokesman. He and the traveller seat themselves facing. He who has been away begins to sing, narrating his adventures, telling where he has been and what he has seen and done. Presently he stops and the other begins to sing the happenings of the village during the traveller’s absence from home. So they sing, alternating, until both stories are completed. When our Ainu group returns, they will be received as those who were dead and have returned; what a many things the poor fellows will have to sing of the people and the places they have seen so far away from their home villages in the Saru River valley. FOOTNOTES: [1] Unfortunately photographed inside out. [2] Ainu village. _Catalogue of Publications of the Open Court Publishing Company Chicago, Monon Building, 324 Dearborn St. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd._ SUNDARA ROW, T. GEOMETRIC EXERCISES IN PAPER-FOLDING. With Half-Tones from Photographs of Exercises. Pages, x + 148. Cloth, $1.00 net (4s. 6d. net). COPE, E. D. THE PRIMARY FACTORS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. 121 cuts. Pp. xvi, 547. Cloth, $2.00 net (10s.). MÜLLER, F. MAX. THREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF THOUGHT. 128 pages. Cloth, 75c (3s. 6d.). THREE LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. 112 pages. 2nd Edition. Cloth, 75c (3s. 6d.). ROMANES, GEORGE JOHN. DARWIN AND AFTER DARWIN. Three Vols., $4.00. Singly, as follows: 1. THE DARWINIAN THEORY. 46 pages. 125 illustrations. Cloth, $2.00 2. POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS. Heredity and Utility. Pp. 338. $1.50 3. POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS. Isolation and Physiological Selection Pp. 181. $1.00. AN EXAMINATION OF WEISMANNISM. 236 pages. Cloth, $1.00 net. THOUGHTS ON RELIGION. Third Edition, Pages, 184. Cloth, gilt top. $1.25 net. A CANDID EXAMINATION OF THEISM. Pages, xi., 197. Cloth, $2.00. SHUTE, D. KERFOOT. FIRST BOOK IN ORGANIC EVOLUTION. 9 colored plates, 39 cuts. Pp. xvi + 285. Price, $2.00 net (7s. 6d. net). CUMONT, FRANZ. THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRA. Pages, xii., 230. $1.50 net (7s. 6d. net). HILBERT, DAVID. THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY.