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THIS “portrait of a scholar” is drawn by one A who now for a number of years has been associated with Sir James Frazer's work. That association has been fruitful in producing the supplementary volumes of “The Golden Bough” and “Totemism”, as well as the five volumes of selected extracts from the notebooks which bear testimony to the life-long and unremitting industry which Sir James has devoted to the commendable practice of note-making. A further outcome of this association is that it has given Mr. Downie an acquaintance, intimate and unrivalled, with the lines of every branch of investigation upon which Sir James has brought his genius to bear, as well as ar clear insight into the working of his mind, so far as that is possible when dealing with a subject who both as an individual and as author exhibits in a supreme degree the scholar's qualities of balance and restraint.
James George Frazer
The Portrait of a Scholar. By R. Angus Downie. Pp. ix + 141. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 5s. net.
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Anthropology and Archæology. Nature 145, 1004 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451004b0
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