Die menschlichen Rassen

THIS clearly written treatise on human races belongs to the polemical class of literature, being more concerned in rectifying the errors of German professors than in laying before its readers a scientific presentation of modern ethnology. Readers can best judge of its scientific worth by noting the classification applied to men of the European type. It is proposed to divide them into thirteen races: these are Nordic, Baltic, Alpine, Dinaric, Armenian, the “Faelisehen”, Turanians, Mediterraneans, Orientals, Indides, Ved-dahs, Ainos, Polynesians. Die menschlichen Rassen: eine populärwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Grundprobleme der Rassentheorie. Von Dr. Rudolf Lämmel. Pp. xv + 283 + 48 plates. (Zürich: Jean Christophe Verlag, 1936.) 7 francs.