Balochi Folklore

GREEK FOLK SONGS. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA. By LYNN THORNDIKE, Ph.D. London: Macmillan &; Co. 1923. 42s. net. 2 vols. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.

THE GOLDEN BOUGH : A STUDY IN MAGIC AND RELIGION. By Sir J. G. FRAZER. Macmillan &; Co. Ltd. 1923. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AND THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD : THE BELIEF AMONG THE POLYNESIANS : GIFFORD LECTURES. Vol. ii. The same author and publishers. 1923. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

EARLY CIVILISATION. AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY. By ALEXANDER A. GOLDENWEISER. George G. Harrap &; Co. 1922. Pp. xiv+428. Illustrated. Price 15s. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

MAGICAL JEWELS OF THE RENAISSANCE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE, PARTICULARLY IN ENGLAND. By JOAN EVANS, B.Litt. Oxford Clarendon Press. 1922. 264 pp. 8vo. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE HEROIC AGE IN INDIA. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE LHOTA NAGAS. By J. P. MILLS. London : Macmillan &; Co. 1922. Price 25s. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN. By D. A. MACKENZIE. With a Foreword by G. ELLIOT SMITH. Blackie. 1922. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

CHILDREN'S STORIES FROM ROUMANIAN LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES. By M. GASTER. London : Raphael Tuck &; Sons. 1922.     

The Ploughman and the Fairies

THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. By FRANZ BOAS. (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. II. Anthropology, I. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition.) Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

MALAY MAGIC: BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE AND POPULAR RELIGION OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. By WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT. With a Preface by CHARLES OTTO BLAGDEN. Pp. 685, 28 plates. Macmillan and Co. 1900. Reviewed by John Abercromby.

ARADIA, OR THE GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES. By CHARLES G. LELAND. Nutt. 3s. 6d.

BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS. LIFE AND CUSTOMS. By the Rev. A. H. SAYCE. (The Semitic Series.) Nimmo.

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE. By W. L. RIPLEY. Boston (Mass.). 1899

ALLGEMEINE METHODIK DER VOLKSKUNDE. L. SCHERMANN UND F. S. KRAUSS. Berichte ueber Erscheinungen in den Jahren 1890–97. Erlangen : F. Junge. 1899.

NEUE BEITRāGE ZUR KENTNISS DES VOLKRāTHSELS. R. PETSCH. Berlin: Mayer und Müller. 1899. (Palaestra, No. 4.)

FOLKLORE IN ENGLAND UND AMERIKA. C. KLÖPPER. Dresden: C. A. Koch. 1899. (Neusprachlichle Abhandlungen, No. viii.) Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

SEGNIUS IRRITANT, OR EIGHT PRIMITIVE FOLKLORE STORIES. By W. W. STRICKLAND. Robert Forder. 1896. Reviewed by M. G.

NORTH-WEST SLAV LEGENDS AND FAIRY STORIES. By the same. A sequel to “Segnius Irritant.” Forder. 1897. Reviewed by M. G.

SOUTH-SLAVONIC FOLKLORE STORIES. With an Introductory Preface. By the same. Forder. 1899. Reviewed by M. G.

LA VEILLÉE : DOUZE CONTES TRADUITS DU ROUMAIN. Par JULES BRUN. Avec une Introduction par Mdlle. LUCILLE KITZO. Paris. Reviewed by M. G.

FOLK-LORE CATALAN. LÉGENDES DU ROUSSILLON. Par HORACE CHAUVET. Paris: J. Maisonneuve. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA. Collected by W. CROOKE and retold by W. H. D. ROUSE. Illustrated by W. H. ROBINSON. London : J. M. Dent and Co. 1899. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SHETLAND FOLK-LORE. By JOHN SPENCE, F.E.I.S. Lerwick: Johnson D. Greig. Reviewed by Florence Peacock.

PEASANT LORE FROM GAELIC IRELAND. Collected by DANIEL DEENEY. David Nutt. 1900.

BLUEBEARD, A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY AND FOLKLORE. BEING THE HISTORY OF GILLES DE RETZ OF BRITTANY, FRANCE, WHO WAS EXECUTED AT NANTES IN 1440 A.D., AND WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL OF BLUEBEARD IN THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE. By THOMAS WILSON, LL.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1899.     

A Study of the Folklore on the Coast of Connacht,Ireland.

CHIUS VINCTA OR THE OCCUPATION OF CHIOS BY THE TURKS (1566) AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION OF THE ISLAND (1566–1912). DESCRIBED IN CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMATIC REPORTS AND OFFICIAL DISPATCHES. Edited by PHILIP P. ARGENTI, with a preface by SIR STEPHEN GASELEE. Pp. cclxxxii + 264. Cambridge University Press. 25s. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.

A JERSEYMAN AT OXFORD. By R. R. MARETT. Pp. xi+346. Oxford University Press (Humphrey Milford). 15s. Reviewed by J. H. H.

THE LAND OF THE RAINBOW, POLAND AND HER PEOPLE. By VIOLET MASON. Pp. 322. Minerva, London. 1941. Reviewed by J. H. H.

IT HAPPENED IN HAMPSHIRE. Items of interest compiled and arranged by W. G. BEDDINGTON and E. B. CHRISTY. 8vo. 8½x5? in. Pp. 24. Price is. Published by The Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 66a High Street, Winchester. Reviewed by P. J. Heather     

The Disposal of the Dead in Australia

PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. By T. M. WILLIAMS. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922. $5.00 net. Reviewed by R. R Marett.

DANMARKS TRYLLEFORMLER. Ved F. OHRT. Vol. I. Indlsdning og Text. Copenhagen &; Christiania: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1917. Pp. 516. Reviewed by W.A. Craigie.

JOHANNES PAULI, SCHIMPF UND ERNST, herausgegeben von JOHANNES BOLTE. Erster Teil. Berlin: Herbert Stubenrauch Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1924. Pp. 30 + 418. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE HISTORY OF THE YORUBAS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE BEGINNING OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE. By REV. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Ed. by Dr. O. JOHNSON. George Routledge &; Sons, 1921. 8vo. Pp. 684. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SPECIMENS OF BANTU FOLK-LORE FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. By J. TORREND, S.J. Pp. 187. ios. 6d. net. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

ARAB MEDICINE AND SURGERY : A STUDY OF THE HEALING ART IN ALGERIA. By M. W. HILTON-SIMPSON, B.Sc. Ill. Oxford Univ. Press, 1922. Pp. 96. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN : A STUDY IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION. By W. J. PERRY, M.A. Methuen &; Co. 1923, 16 maps. Pp. xvi, 551. 18s. net. Reviewed by E. N. Fallaize.

THE ORIGIN OF MAGIC AND RELIGION. By W. J. PERRY, M.A. Methuen &; Co., 1923. Pp. viii, 212. 6s. net. Reviewed by E. N. Fallaize.

STUDIES IN RELIGION, FOLK-LORE, AND CUSTOM IN BRITISH NORTH BORNEO AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. By IVOR H. N. EVANS, M.A. Cambridge University Press, 1923. Pp. vii + 296. 20s. n. Reviewed by H. A. Rose.     

Book reviews

AUSTRALIA IN WORLD AFFAIRS 1966–70. Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper (eds.). Cheshire, for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1974. vii + 489 pp. 0–7015–1571–6. $13.95.

FROM TWEEDLEDUM TO TWEEDLEDEE. THE NEW LABOR GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA: A CRITIQUE OF ITS SOCIAL MODEL. Robert Catley and Bruce McFarlane. Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1974. 88 pp. + 24 pp. app. 0–8555–022–1. $3.50 paper.

FULL CIRCLE. S. F. Rowell. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, 206 pp. $9.90.

PUBLIC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA. Roy Forward (ed.). Cheshire, Melbourne, 1974. 276 pp. 07015–1741–7. $6.50 paper.

TO PHOENIX SEAT: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY OF MAOISM AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST QUEST FOR A PARADISE ON EARTH. Leslie R. Marchant. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973. 276 pp. 0–207–12373. $7.95.

THE NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP, 1945–1965: A STUDY OF FACTIONALISM AND POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION. Koon Woo Nam. The University of Alabama Press, Alabama 35486, 1974. 214 pp. 08193–4723–2. $7.50.

TRADITION AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM. Nguyen Khac Vien. Indochina Resource Center, Berkeley, California, 1974. 169 pp. $US 2.65.

POLITICS AND POWER IN CAMBODIA: THE SIHANOUK YEARS. Milton Osborne. Longman, Melbourne, 1974. 120 pp. $7.50 hard cover, $3.50 paper.

THE 1971 ELECTIONS IN INDONESIA: AN EAST JAVA CASE STUDY. Ken Ward. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1974. 120 pp. 0–909835–09–8. $3.75.

TWENTY YEARS OF INDONESIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1945–1965. Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung. Mouton, The Hague and Paris, 1973. 640 pp. $17.00.

HET EKONOMISCH BELEID IN NEDERLANDSCH‐INDIE, CAPITA SELECTA. EEN BRONNENPUBLICATIE (Economic Policy in the Netherlands Indies, Selected Subjects), PART II. P. Creutzberg (ed.). Publication No. 6 of the ‘Committee for the Publication of Primary Sources Concerning the History of the Netherlands Indies 1900–1942’. H. D. Tjeenk Willink, B.V., Groningen, The Netherlands, 1974. 792 pp.

FIFTEEN MEN ON A POWDER KEG: A HISTORY OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL. Andrew Boyd. University Paperback, London, 1973. (First published by Methuen & Co. 1971.) 416–70230–9. 383 pp. $4.20.

HAMMARSKJOLD. Brian Urquhart. The Bodley Head, London, 1972. 630 pp. $14.70.

THE NEW ZEALAND BUREAUCRAT. T. B. Smith. Cheshire, Wellington, New Zealand, 1974. 162 pp. $9.95.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: FOUNDATIONS OF THE SYSTEM. Werner Levi. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1974. (Distributed in Australia by Oxford University Press.) 285 pp. 0–8166–0703–6. $11.00.     

Book reviews

PRESENT AT THE CREATION. MY YEARS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT. Dean Acheson. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1969. xviii, 798 pp. $12.80.

THE SPLIT: AUSTRALIAN LABOR IN THE FIFTIES. Robert Murray. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1970. vi, 388 pp. $5.95.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE SUPER‐POWERS: A SHORT COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE USA AND THE USSR. Paul Dukes. London, Macmillan, 1970. 155 pp. £1 and $3.40.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GANDHI. K. P. Karunakaran. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, 1969. ii, 115 pp. Rs. 10, $3.60 U.S.

LENIN THROUGH INDIAN EYES. K. P. S. Menon. Vikas Publications, Delhi, 1970. ix, 79 pp. Rs. 12.

AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED NATIONS: NEW GUINEA TRUSTEESHIP ISSUES FROM 1946 TO 1966. W. E. Tomasetti. New Guinea Research Bulletin, No. 36, July 1970, New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Canberra and Boroko. 108 pp. $1.50.

ENGLISH TRANSPORTED: ESSAYS ON AUSTRALASIAN ENGLISH. W. S. Ramson. (ed.). Australian National University Press, 1970. xii, 243 pp. $3.95 Paper. $6.00 Cloth.

THE FIRST AI.F. A STUDY OF ITS RECRUITMENT 1914–1918. L. L. Robson. Melbourne University Press, 1970. 230 pp. $6.75.     

Reviews

M. Philips Price: “A HISTORY OF TURKEY: FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC” (Allen and Unwin. 1956. 20/‐.)

“THE ECONOMICS OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT.” By Paul H. Casselman. (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C., 1955, pp. vi plus 183. Price $3.25.)

“THE HISTORY OF A SOVIET COLLECTIVE FARM.” Fedor Belov. Routledge. London. International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. 1956. xiii plus 234, including appendices and index. 21/‐.

“RED, BLACK, BLOND AND OLIVE.” by Edmund Wilson. (W. H. Allen, London. 25/‐.)

“THE PATTERN OF WORLD CONFLICT.” by G. L. Arnold. London. (The Dial Press, New York. 1955, pp. 250.)

“FLIGHT AND RESETTLEMENT.” by H. B. Murphy and Others. (Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), 1955, pp.231.     

Development in the dependent state: The Kenyan case

COLONIALISM AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN EAST AFRICA: THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1919–1939. E.A. Brett. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1973.

RACIAL BARGAINING IN INDEPENDENT KENYA: A STUDY OF MINORITIES AND DECOLONIZATION. Donald Rothchild. Oxford U.P. for Institute of Race Relations, London, 1973.

THE POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF URBAN SQUATTERS. Marc Howard Ross. North Western U.P., Chicago, 1973.

KENYA: THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION AND CONTROL. Henry Bienen. Princeton U.P., Princeton, 1974.

PEASANT POLITICS: CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT IN MURANGA. Geoff Lamb. Julian Friedmann Publishers, Lewes, Sussex, 1974. Paperback edition 1977.

THE ECONOMICS OF COLONIALISM: BRITAIN AND KENYA 1870–1930. Richard Wolff. Yale U.P., New Haven, 1974.

UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN KENYA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEO‐COLONIALISM. Colin Leys. Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1975.     

Ménage et industrie

MORE WORK FOR MOTHER: THE IRONIES OF HOUSEHOLD TECHNOLOGY FROM THE OPEN HEART TO THE MICROWAVE by Ruth Schwarz‐Cowan. Basic Books, New York, 1983, xiv +249pp, planches.     

Book reviews

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF JAPAN 1945–1952: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN‐LANGUAGE MATERIALS. R.E. Ward and F.J. Shulman. American Library Assoc., Chicago, 1974. 876 pp. 0–8389–0127–1. $US50.

AUSTRALIAN COMMENTARIES: SELECT ARTICLES FROM THE ROUND TABLE 1911–1942. L.L. Robson (ed.). Melbourne University Press, 1975. xi + 212 pp. $12.60.

APPROACHES TO ASIA: Australian Postwar Policies and Attitudes. Gordon Greenwood and Pamela Bray. McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1975. XII + 612 pp. 0–07–093308–1. $17.95.

CONSERVATISM AS HERESY: An Australian Reader. John J. Ray (ed.). Australian and New Zealand Book Co., Sydney, 1974. xxix pp, 402 pp. 0 85552 029 9. paper. $6.95.

PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. L.F. Rushbrook Williams. Stacey International, London, 1975. 224 pp. incl. appendices. 0 9503304–1 8. hardback $3.90. 0 9503304–2 6. paperback $2.50.

LABOUR, RACE, AND COLONIAL RULE: THE COPPERBELT FROM 1924 TO INDEPENDENCE. Elena L. Berger. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. 257 pp. 0–19–821690–4. $19.30.

THE NATIONAL INCOME OF WESTERN SAMOA. Ian J. Fairbairn. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973, 215 pp. 0–19–550389–9. $12.00.

BOUGAINVILLE AN NATIONALISM: Aspects of Unity and Discord. Alexander Mamak and Richard Bedford with Leo Hannett and Moses Havini. Bourgainville Special Publication, No. 1. Christchurch, 1974. $NZ2.50. (Distributed by Bougainville Special Publications, c/‐ Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.)

THE BALTIC DILEMMA: THE CASE OF THE DE JURE RECOGNITION BY AUSTRALIA OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE BALTIC STATES INTO THE SOVIET UNION. Edgars Dunsdorfs. Robert Speller and Sons, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1975. 302 pp. 0–8315–0148–0.     

Classified Catalogue of Brand Material.

FOLKTALES OF ENGLAND. Edited by KATHERINE M. BRIGGS and RUTH L. TONGUE. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. Pp. 174.25s. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

FOLKTALES OF CHINA. Edited by WOLFRAM EBERHARD. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. Pp. xxxviii, 267.40s. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

MITOS Y LEYENDAS EN LAS VILLAS. Edited by SAMUEL FEIJÓO. Folklore Cubano. Universidad Central de Las Villas (Cuba), 1965. Pp. 252. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

EUROPEAN FOLKTALES. Edited by LAURITS BÖDKER, CHRISTINA HOLE, G. D'ARONCO. Published for the Council of Europe. Rosenkilde and Bagger, Copenhagen, 1963. Pp. xxiii + 223. Reviewed by Stewart F. Sanderson.

FF Communications No. 195: THE MORPHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN FOLKTALES. By ALAN DUNDES. Helsinki, 1964. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

THE SIGNPOST LIBRARY, Oliver and Boyd, 9s. 6d. No. 10. GYPSIES. By JOHN HORNBY. Illustrated by David Gentleman. 1965. No. 11. WITCHES AND WIZARDS. By FRANCES WILKINS. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner. 1965. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND THE SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES. Edited by MICHAEL BANTON. Tavistock Publications, 1966. 30s. each. Reviewed by E. O. James.

A GUIDE FOR FIELD WORKERS IN FOLKLORE. By KENNETH S. GOLDSTEIN. Hatboro, Pennsylvania, Folklore Associates Inc.; London, Herbert Jenkins, 1964. 42s. Reviewed by Stewart F. Sanderson.

THE WITCHCRAFT AND FOLKLORE OF DARTMOOR. RUTH ST LEGER GORDON. Robert Hale, 1965. Pp. 192; illust. with photos by the Author. 21s. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

PASTEURS-NOMADES MÉDITERRANÉENS. LES SARACATSANS DE GRèCE By G. B. KAVADIAS. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1965. Pp. x, 444, 1 map, 109 illustrations, 4 diagrams, 1 table. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC COUNCIL. Vol. XVII, 1965. Part 1, pp. 80; Part 2, pp. 355. Both parts for 30s. Reviewed by Mary Hudleston.     

Book reviews

UNITED NATIONS. THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS. Clark M. Eichelberger. New York, Harper and Row, 1965. Pp. 176. $3.50.

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: LEGAL BASES, STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS. Hans Aufricht. Published under the auspices of the London Institute of World Affairs. London, Stevens and Sons, 1964. Pp. 126. Australian price $4.55.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. B. A. Santamaria. Melbourne, Campion Press, 1964. Pp. 258. 35/‐d.

THE ANZUS TREATY ALLIANCE. J. G. Starke. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1965. Pp. xiv + 314. $8.50 (Australian).

CAMBODIA'S FOREIGN POLICY. Roger M. Smith. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1965. Pp. x + 273. U.S.$5.75.

CONFLICT IN LAOS. THE POLITICS OF NEUTRALIZATION. Arthur J. Dommen. London, Pall Mall Press, 1965. Pp. xiv + 338. Australian price 63/6d.

THE LEFT‐WING MOVEMENT IN JAPAN, 1945–1964. Fukao Noda (ed.). Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan, Vol. III, No. I, April 1965. Tokyo, The Centre for Japanese Social and Political Studies. U.S.$2.00.

MOHAMMED, MARX AND MARHAEN. THE ROOTS OF INDONESIAN SOCIALISM. Jeanne S. Mintz. London, Pall Mall Press, 1965. Pp. 246. Australian price 66/‐d.

THE RISE OF POLITICAL ANTI‐SEMITISM IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. P. G. J. Pulzer. New dimensions in history: essays in comparative history. New York, Wiley, 1964.

BRITISH STRATEGY AND POLITICS, 1914–1918. Paul Guinn. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xvi + 360. 8 maps and 14 illustrations. Australian price 67/6d.

THE POLITICS OF NAVAL SUPREMACY. The Wiles Lectures, 1963–4. G. S. Graham. London, Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. viii + 132. 2 maps. 30/‐d. stg.

THE UNITED STATES AND THE ITALO‐ETHIOPIAN CRISIS. Brice Harris, Jr. Stanford University Press, 1964. Pp. vi + 187, bibliographical essay. Australian price 75/6d.     

A Folklore Survey of County Clare

ENGLISH TRADITIONAL SONGS AND CAROLS. Collected and Edited, with Annotations and Pianoforte Accompaniments, by LUCY E. BROADWOOD. Boosey &; Co. 25. 6d, by Charlotte S. Burne

PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, edited by FRANZ BOAS. Vol. I. Fox TEXTS by WILLIAM JONES. Leyden, late E. J. Brill, 1907, by E. Sidney Hartland

THE MEITHEIS. By T. C. HODSON. With an Introduction by Sir CHARLES LYALL. London : David Nutt. 1908, by M. Longworth Dames

THE MIKIRS. From the Papers of the late EDWARD STACK. Edited, arranged and supplemented by Sir CHARLES LYALL. London: David Nutt. 1908, by M. Longworth Dames

REPORTS OF THE CAMBRIDGE EXPEDITION TO TORRES STRAITS : Vol. VI. SOCIOLOGY, MAGIC, AND RELIGION OF THE EASTERN ISLANDERS. Cambridge University Press, 1908, 4to. Pp. xx, 316, with 30 plates, 70 blocks in the text, and 3 maps. Price 21s. net, by N.W. Thomas

TRAVAUX DE L'ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE, publicés sous la direction de M. E. DURKHEIM. ESSAIS SUR LE REGIME DES CASTES par C. BOUGLÉ. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1908, by E. Sidney Hartland

Au BON VIEUX TEMPS: RÉCITS, CONTES ET LÉGENDES DE L'ANCIEN BOCAGE NORMAND. JEUX, VIEILLES CHANSONS (Vingt airs notés). A. MADELAINE. Tom I. Caen: Henri Delesques, 1907, by E. Sidney Hartland

THE ELDER OR POETIC EDDA, commonly known as SÆMUND'S EDDA. Part I. The Mythological poems, edited and translated with Introduction and Notes by OLIVE BRAY. Illustrated by W. G. COLLINGWOOD. Viking Club Translation Series. 15s. net. (David Nutt.), by Albany F. Major

THE LOWER NIGER AND ITS TRIBES. By Major ARTHUR GLYN LEONARD. Macmillan, 1906. Pp. xxii + 559. Map. 8vo, by A.R. Wright

IN INDIAN MEXICO: A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL AND LABOR. By FREDERICK STARR. Chicago: Forbes &; Co., 1908, by E. Sidney Hartland

FOLKLORE OF THE HOLY LAND, MOSLEM, CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH. By J. E. HANAUER. Edited by Marmaduke Pickthall. London: Duckworth &; Co. 1907.

DIE SALOMO SAGE IN DER SEMITISCHEN LITTERATUR. EIN BEITRAG ZUR VERGLEICHENDEN SAGENKUNDE. Von Dr. GEORG SALZBERGER. Berlin: Max Harrwitz. 1907.

SLAVISCHE VOLKSFORSCHUNGEN, ABHANDLUNGEN UEBER GLAUBEN, GEWOHNHEITSRECHT, SITTEN, BRAEUCHE UND DIE GUSLARENLIEDER DER SUEDSLAVEN, VORWIEGEND AUF GRUND EIGENER ERHEBUNGEN. Von Dr. FRIEDRICH KRAUSS. Leipzig: Wilhelm Heims. 1908. by M. G.     

Fairtytales from Inedited Hebrew MSS. of the Ninth and Twelfth Centuries

PSYCHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE, by R. R. MARETT, M.A., D.Sc. London: Methuen &; Co. Ltd. 1920. Price 7s. 6d. net. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

PRIMITIVE SOCIETY : THE BEGINNINGS OF THE FAMILY AND THE RECKONING OF DESCENT, by EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND, LL.D., F.S.A., Hon. F.R.S.A. (Ireland). London: Methuen &; Co. 1921. Pp. v, 180. Price 6s. net. Reviewed by E. N. Fallaize.

THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND OF HIS SUPERSTITIONS, by CARVETH READ. Cambridge: University Press. 1920. 18s. net. Reviewed by A. C. Haddon.

PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Patna University Readership Lectures, 1920), by RAI BAHUDUR SARAT CHANDRA ROY, M.A. Patna, 1920. 5 Rs. Reviewed by A. C. Haddon.     

The Folk-Lore of Newfoundland and Labrador: Essays by the Reverend Arthur C. Waghorne from The Evening Herald 1892–1893

BY RITE: CUSTOM, CEREMONY AND COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND 1700–1880. By BOB BUSHAWAY. Junction Books, 1983. 293 pp. Ill. £14.50 (Hardback), £6.95 (Paperback). Reviewed by Victor Neuburg.

HARVESTERS AND HARVESTING 1840–1900. By DAVID HOSEASON MORGAN. Croom Helm 1982. pp. 224. £12.95. 0 7099 1735 X. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

OUR FORGOTTEN PAST: SEVEN CENTURIES OF LIFE ON THE LAND. Edited by JEROME BLUM. Thames &; Hudson 1982. pp. 240 illus. £12.50. 0 500 25080 4. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

SHAMAN: THE WOUNDED HEALER. By JOAN HALIFAX. Thames &; Hudson. London, 1982. 96 pp., illus. £3.95 p.b. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

SEAN Ó CONAILL'S BOOK: STORIES AND TRADITIONS FROM IVERAGH. Recorded and edited by SÉAMUS Ó DUILEARGA. Translated by MÁIRE MACNEILL. Comhairle Bhéaloideas Eireann, Dublin, 1981. 424 pp. £14.00 (Irish pounds). Available from An Ais, 31 Fenian Street, Dublin 2. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

BÉALOIDEAS The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 50, 1982. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

CINDERELLA: A FOLKLORE CASEBOOK. Edited by ALAN DUNDES. Garland Publishing Inc. New York and London, 1982. 311 pp. $35. 0 8240 9295 3. Wildman Press, New York, 1983, $12.95 p.b., 0 030544 15 6. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

THE BOOK OF NASTY LEGENDS. By PAUL SMITH, illustrated by DAVID AUSTIN. Routledge &; Kegan Paul (London, Boston, Melbourne), 1983. 109 pp., ill. £7.95 cloth, £3.95 paperback. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY. By PROINSIAS MAC CANA. Newnes Books, Hamlyn Publishing Ltd. (Rushden, Northants, England), 1983. 141 pp., ill. £6.95. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH TRADITIONAL VERSE ed. FREDERICK WOODS. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983. 424 pp. £8.95. 0 19 214132 5. Reviewed by J. S. Bratton.

THE ROLLRIGHT STONES. By GEORGE LAMBRICK. Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1983. Pp. 60, 12 illus. A4. Price £1.50. Reviewed by Leslie Grinsell.

AMERICAN FOLKLORE FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES: A CATALOG. VOL. II. Centre for Southern Folklore. R. R. Bowker Co., New York and London, 1982. £34.75 paperback. Reviewed by Paul Smith.

CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES. Recorded by Damian Webb. Saydisc Traditional Series SLD 338 Mono. Reviewed by Georgina Boyes.     

Book Reviews

UNDERSTANDING HISTORY: A PRIMER OF HISTORICAL METHOD. HISTORY, ITS PURPOSE AND METHOD. MODERN FRANCE: PROBLEMS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH REPUBLICS.     

Sirmur Folklore Notes

DEUTSCHES JAHRBUCH FÜR VOLKSKUNDE. Vol. III, Part i. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1957. Pp. 343, Plates VIII and text illustrations. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

DAS ST. LAMBRECHTER PASSIONSSPIEL VON 1606. Passio Domini AND Dialogus in Epiphania Domini DES JOHANNES GEIGER. Edited by P. OTHMAR WONISCH, O.S.B. Vienna, 1957. Veröffentlichungen des Österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde, Vol. xi. Pp. viii, 96. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO. By WALTER STARKIE. John Murray, 1957. Pp.338. 25s. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

JOURNAL OF THE ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY, Vol. VIII, No. 1. 1956. Reviewed by Michael M. Rix.

MENSA SACRA : THE ROUND TABLE AND THE HOLY GRAIL. By A. A. BARB. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XIX, 1–2, 1956. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.