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.     

The organizers and the organized

Bryan R. Roberts. Organizing Strangers: Poor Families in Guatemala City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. xviii + 360 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $12.50.     

The Historian and the Church

DEREK BEALES AND GEOFFREY BEST, eds. History, Society and the Churches: Essays in Honour of Owen Chadwick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 335. $49.50 (US).