"Six lectures...delivered during the Michaelmas term of 1908, at the instance of the Committee for anthropology."- Pref.
I. The European diffusion of primitive pictography and its bearings on the origin of script. By A.J. Evans.- II. Homer and anthropology. By A. Lang.- III. The early Greek epic. By G.G.A. Murray.- IV. Graeco-Italian magic. By F.B. Jevons.- V. Herodotus and anthropology. By J.L. Myres.- VI. Lustratio. By W.W. Fowler