Gonley thanks Brownson for the two excellent lectures on anthropology by Father Thomas A. Hughes, S.J., which he sent him; he would like to see the lectures on biology. The lecturer has made good use of the doctrine of reversion of varieties to the original species. This doctrine is admitted by those who assert that man was evolved from the ape, but they have failed to give an example of man's reverting to the original apish type. It is more likely that the offspring of the original human parents have gradually varied and degenerated owing to the circumstances which Father Hughes has set forth, and that, in accordance with this same law of reversion, all varieties of mankind will eventually revert to the original perfect type of the primitive pair. Father Hughes has an analytic mind, is a master in synthesis and can adapt scientific language to the popular mind. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.