1. Inscribed Stone, Langbank.

2. Grotesque Face on Stone, Langbank.

3. Late Celtic Comb, Langbank.

4. Bronze Brooch, Langbank.

5. _Churinga Irula_, Wooden Bull-roarers, Arunta Tribe.

6. _Churinga Nanja_, Inscribed Sacred Stone, Arunta.

7. Sacred Stone Uninscribed, Arunta.

8. Collection of Arunta Sacred Stones.

9, 10. Inscribed Perforated Stone from Tappock. Age of Iron.

11. Perforated and Inscribed Stone from Dunbuie.

12, 13. Perforated Inscribed Stones from Ontario, Canada.

14. Perforated Inscribed Stones from Portugal, Neolithic.

15. Perforated Inscribed Stones from Portugal, Neolithic.

16. Perforated "Cup and Duct" Stone, Portugal, Neolithic.

17, 18. Large Slate Spear-head, Dumbuck.

19. Stone Figurine of Woman, Dumbuck.

20, 21. Cup and Duct Stones, Portuguese, Dolmen Site, Villa d'Aguiar.

22. Stone Figurine of Woman, Portuguese, Dolmen Site, Villa d'Aguiar.

23. Heart-shaped Stone, Villa d'Aguiar.

24. Cupped Stone, Villa d'Aguiar.

25. Stone Pendant, Men in Boat, Scottish.

Figures 1-4 from _Transactions_, with permission of Glasgow
Archaeological Society. Figures 5-8, Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes
of Central Australia_; with permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co. 9-11.
With permission of Scottish Society of Antiquaries. 12-13. Bulletin of
Board of Education of Ontario. 14-16. _Religioes_, etc., L. de
Vasconcellos. 17-19. With permission of Mr. W. H. Donnelly. 20-24. With
permission of Sr. Ricardo Severo. 25. With permission of Scottish
Society of Antiquarians.

I--THE CLYDE MYSTERY

The reader who desires to be hopelessly perplexed, may desert the
contemplation of the Fiscal Question, and turn his eyes upon _The Mystery
of the Clyde_. "Popular" this puzzle cannot be, for there is no "demmed
demp disagreeable body" in the Mystery. No such object was found in
Clyde, near Dumbarton, but a set of odd and inexpensive looking, yet
profoundly enigmatic scraps of stone, bone, slate, horn and so forth,
were discovered and now repose in a glass case at the National Museum in
Queen Street, Edinburgh.

There, as in the Morgue, lies awaiting explanation the _corpus delicti_
of the Clyde Mystery. We stare at it and ask what are these slate spear
heads engraved with rude ornament, and certainly never meant to be used
as "lethal weapons"? What are these many-shaped perforated plaques of
slate, shale, and schist, scratched with some of th