Minutes of Meeting June 19

ESKIMOS OF THE NUSHAGAK RIVER. By JAMES W. VAN STONE. University of Washington Press, 1967. Reviewed by W. R. Mead.

AFTER LIVINGSTONE. By DAVID PICTON JONES, n.p., 1968, 35s. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

DISCOVERING HILL FIGURES. By KATE BERGAMER. Shire Publications, Tring; N.D. Pp. 48. Plates 8.4s. 6d. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD, AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE AND BATTLE. Edited by ANDREW LANG. Illustrated by H. J. Ford. Schocken Books: New York. $1.75. Reviewed by Roger Lancelyn Green.

CHINESE FAIRY TALES. By ISABELLE C. CHANG. Illustrated by Shirley Errickson. Schocken Books: New York. $2.45. Reviewed by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Die zweite Sammlung der lettischen Volkslieder von Gustav Bergmann. By H. BIEZAIS. Skrifter utgivna av Religionshistoriska Institutionen i Uppsala, vol. 3. Uppsala (Almquist &; Wiksells Boktryckeri) 1967. Pp. 110. Pls 4. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE HUMAN SKULL. A CULTURAL HISTORY. By FOLKE HENSCHEN. With an introduction by K. P. Oakley. London (Thames &; Hudson) 1965. Pp. 168, 22 text figs, 76 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

VOLKSSAGEN AUS DEM RIESEN- UND ISER-GEBIRGE. By ROBERT COGHO AND WILL-ERICH PEUCKERT. Denkmäler deutscher Volksdichtung, vol. 8. Göttingen (Verlag Otto Schwartz &; Co.) 1967. Pp. ix, 102; plates 10, and 1 map. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Custom and Belief in the Icelandic Sagas.

FOLKLORE AND MEDICINE. By DR. J. D. ROLLESTON. Reprinted from the West London Medical Journal, April 1939 Reviewed by L. F. Newman.

COMPARATIVE RELIGION : AN INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL STUDY. By E. O. JAMES, D. LITT., PH.D., F.S.A., Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of Leeds. Pp, 374. Methuen. 1938. Reviewed by S. H. Hooke.

ROUND ABOUT THREE PALACE GREEN. By ESTELLA CANZIANI. Methuen. With 16 plates. Reviewed by E. F. Coote Lake.

THE THREE NORTHERN COUNTIES OP ENGLAND : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR HISTORY. Edited by SIR CUTHBERT HEADLAM, Bart., D.S.O., with an Introduction by the Right Hon. Lord Eustace Percy. Northumberland Press Ltd. ; Gateshead-upon- Tyne. 6s. Reviewed by E. M. W..

FOLK-ART OF BENGAL. By AJITCOOMAR MOOKERJEE. The University of Calcutta. 1939. Reviewed by Estella Canziani.

ANTHOLOGIA ANTHROPOLOGICA : NATIVE RACES OF AUSTRALASIA. By SIR J. G. FRAZER, O.M., F. R. S., F.B.A. Edited by R. E. Downie. London. 1939. Pp. viii + 390. Price 35s. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.

PORTUGAL, A Book of Folk-ways. By RODNEY GALLOP. Cambridge University Press. 1936. Pp. 291 with index. 15s. Reviewed by V. A..     

Some Magical Applications of Brooms in Japan.

HAUNTED ENGLAND. By CHRISTINA HOLE. London : B. T. Batsford. 1940. Pp. viii + 184. ios. 6d. Reviewed by M. M. Banks.

SAINT PAUL OF LÉON. By the REV. CANON GILBERT H. DOBLE. Cornish. Saints Series No. 46. 1941. Pp. 72. 2s. 6d. Reviewed by M. M. Banks.

THE FOLKLORE OF ALCOHOLISM. By J. D. ROLLESTON, M.D., M.A., F.R.C.P., F.S.A. British Journal of Inebriety, July–October 1941. Reviewed by L. F. Newman.     

Folklore from the Hebrides

THE WORSHIP OF NATURE. By Sir J. G. FRAZER. Vol. I. Macmillan &; Co., 1926. 8?″ x 5?″. Pp. xxvi + 672. 25s. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

STERNGLAUBE UND STERNDEUTUNG. Die geschichte und das wesen der Astrologie. Von CARL BEZOLD und FRANZ BOLL. Dritte auflage von W. Gundel. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1926. Pp. xii+ 211. 8vo. Pl. 20 + 48 text ill. Map. 13s. 6d. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE CHARACTER OF KING ARTHUR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. Door Dr. E. VAN DER VEN-TEN BENSEL. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925. 9½″ x 6?″. Pp. iv + 215. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE DOCUMENTARY SOURCES OF GREEK HISTORY. By M. CARY. Oxford: Blackwell, 1927. Pp. xi + 140. 7¼″ x 4?″. 6s. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

DIE TEUTSCHEN VOLKSBÜCHER. By JOSEPH GÖRRES. Berlin: Herbert Stubenrauch, 1925. Sm. 80. Pp. xvi.+352 6s. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

NORWEGIAN FAIRY TALES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ASBJÖRNSEN AND MOE. Trans. by HELEN and JOHN GADE. (Scandinavian Classics, vol. xxiv.). Oxford: University Press, 1924. 7¼″x4?″. Ill. Pp. xiv.+250. Ils. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

RELIGION AND FOLKLORE OF NORTHERN INDIA. By WILLIAM CROOKE. Prepared for the press by R. E. ENTHOVEN. Oxford: Univ. Press, 1926. 8?″x5?″. Pp. 471. 21s. Reviewed by H. A. Rose.

JAMAICA PROVERBS. Collected by M. W. BECKWITH. Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation, Vassar College, N.Y., No. 6, 1925. 9″x6″. Pp. 137. Reviewed by W. Bonser.

Some Foreign Periodicals. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.     

Billy Beg,Tom Beg,and the Fairies

ARTISTS IN STRING. String Figures : Their Regional Distribution and Social Significance. By KATHLEEN HADDON, (Mrs. O. H. T. RISHBETH). Foreword by Prof. J. L. Myres. Methucn and Co., 1930. 7?″ x 4¾″. Pp. x + 174. With 82 diagrams. 6s. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

HANDWÖRTERBUCH DES DEUTSCHEK ABERGLAUBENS. Herausgegeben unter besonderer Mitwirkung von E. HOFFMANN-KRAYER und Mitarbcit zahlreicher Fachgenossen von HANS BÄCHTOLD-STAUBLI. Band III. Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter &; Co., 1930–1. 10?″ x 7″. 1920 columns. 61 Mks. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

RECOLLECTIONS. By ION CREANG?. Trans, by LUCY BYNG. With a pref. by MARCU BEZA. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1930. Pp. 255. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

CONTES POPULAIRES D E ROUMANIE. By ION CREANG?. Paris : Maisonneuve frères, 1931. Vol. i. 9½″ x 5½″. Pp. 245. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

KIOWA TALES. By ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, vol. xxii). New York: G. E. Stechert &; Co., 1929. 9½″ x 6¼″. Pp. xxii + 152. (V. geneal. charts), n.p. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

FOLK ARTS. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

Two Notes on the Sister's Son and the Duel.

THE IRISH COUNTRYMAN. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY. By CONRAD M. ARENSBERG. London: Macmillan. 8½ × ½. Pp. xi + 2l6. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by J. H. H.

LIFE IN A HAITIAN VALLEY. By MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS. Illustrated. Pp. 350 + xi + xix. A.A.Knopf. New York, London. $4.00 net. Reviewed by E. Dora Earthy.

HANDWÖRTERBUCH DES DEUTSCHEN ABERGLAUBENS, Ed. by HANNS BÄCHTOLD-STÄUBLI, Vol. VII, Walter de Gruyter &; Co., Berlin. 1935–1936. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

MOTIF-INDEX OF LITHUANIAN NARRATIVE FOLK-LORE ; by JONAS BALYS ; Folk-Lore Studies, vol. II (Publications of the Lithuanian Folk-Lore Archives); pp. xxxvii and 295 ; Kaunas, 1936 ; price not stated. Reviewed by Kenneth Jackson.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH AND MORALS. Riddell Memorial Lectures at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the University of Durham. By B. MALINOWSKI. Oxford University Press. Humphrey Milford. 2s. 6d. net. Pp. 62. 1936. Reviewed by E. O. James.

THE RENGMA NAGAS. By J. P. MILLS. Published by direction of the Government of Assam. Pp. x + 381 +17 plates. 8½ × ½. (Macmillan, London, 1937.) 25s. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.     

Specimens of Somali Tales.

A BALLAD OF KERALA. By M. D. RAGHAVAN, B.A. Reprinted from the Indian Antiquary, vol. lxi., pp. 9–12, 72–77, 112–116, 150–154, 205–211. Reviewed by F. J. R..

MYTH AND RITUAL. Essays on the Myth and Ritual of the Hebrews in relation to the Culture Pattern of the Ancient East. Edited by S. H. HOOKE. Oxford University Press, 1933. Pp. xix + 204. Illust. 20. Price 10s. 6d. Reviewed by A. M. Hocart.

THE ELIZABETHAN FAIRIES, THE FAIRIES OF FOLKLORE AND THE FAIRIES OF SHAKESPEARE. By MINOR WHITE LATHAM, Ph.D. Columbia University Press, 1930. 8½″ x 5½″. Pp. viii + 313. 18s. 6d. Reviewed by H. C. L..

INDO-EUROPEAN FOLK-TALES AND GREEK LEGEND. By W. R. HALLIDAY. Pp. vii.+ 158. Cambridge University Press, 1933. 7s. 6d. 8″ x 5½″. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

DRAGUTIN SUBOTI?. YUGOSLAV POPULAR BALLADS, THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. Cambridge, University Press, 1932. Price 10s. 6d. 288 pp. 8vo. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

SACRAMENTS OF SIMPLE FOLK. By R. R. MARETT, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1933. Pp. ii + 230. 10s.net. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

PRIMITIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS. By R. U. SAYCE. Cambridge University Press. 1933. 7¾″ x 5½′ F - Pp. xiii + 291 Reviewed by M. M. B..

THE ALEXANDER BOOK IN ETHIOPIA : The Ethiopic versions of Pseudo-Callisthenes, the Chronicle of Al-Mâkin, the Narrative of Joseph ben Gorion, and a Christian Romance of Alexander. SIR ERNEST A. WALLIS BUDGE. London : Oxford University Press. 1933. i–xxix, and 1–277. 13 Plates. Price 7s. 6d. Size 7¾″ x 5¼″. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

QUILEUTE TEXTS. By MANUEL J. ANDRADE. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Volume XII. New York: Columbia University Press ; Oxford : Humphrey Milford, 1931. 206 pp. 26s. 6d. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

TRIBES OF THE NIGER DELTA, THEIR RELIGIONS AND CUSTOMS. By P. AMAURY TALBOT, D.Sc. Illustrated. Map. London : The Sheldon Press. 1932. 9″ x 6″. Pp. xi + 350. 18s. Reviewed by Edwin W. Smith.

RECHERCHES SUR NOTRE ANCIENNE CHANSON POPULAIRE TRADITIONELLE. Exposé V. by PAUL COIRAULT. Libraire E. Droz, 25 Rue de Tournon, Paris. VIme. 1932. Pp. 321–685. 10″ x 6½″. Reviewed by M. M. B..     

Seven Children at One Birth

ANCIENT BALLADS. TRADITIONALLY SUNG IN NEW ENGLAND. Compiled and edited by HELEN HARKNESS FLANDERS. Vol. I. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 80s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES, A SELECTION, Translated by W. L. KINGSLAND. The World's Classics, Oxford, Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ST JAMES IN SPAIN. By T. D. KENDRICK. Methuen, 1960. Pp. 223. 25s. Reviewed by E. O. James.

HUMANIORA. ESSAYS IN LITERATURE. FOLKLORE. BIBLIOGRAPHY Honouring Archer Taylor on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited WAYLAND D. HAND and GUSTAVE O. ARLT. J. J. Augustin, Locust Valley, N.Y., 1960. Pp. viii + 374. $10.00. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

HIMMELSSTIER UND GLETSCHERLÖWE. Translated and edited by M. HERMANNS. 1955. Pp. 259, 2 maps, 1 photograph. DAS ELEFANTENSPIEL. Edited by L. KOHL-LARSEN. 1956. Pp. 233, 1 map, 1 photograph. STIMME DES WASSERBÜFFELS. Edited by H. NEVERMANN, 1956. Pp. 242. All Eisenach and Kassel (Röth Verlag). Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE PEOPLE ARE COMING SOON. Analyses of Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. By Melville Jacobs. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1960. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

DEUTSCHES JAHRBUCH FÜR VOLKSKUNDE. Vol. v, Part ii. Berlin, 1959. Pp. (230)–548, plates ix–xx, 4 maps, 25 text illustrations. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE FOUNDLING AND THE WEREWOLF. A LITERARY-HISTORICAL STUDY OF GUILLAUME DE PALERNE. By CHARLES W. DUNN, Toronto University Press. Oxford University Press, London, 1960. 40s. Reviewed by Mary Williams.

THE LEGEND OF MERLIN. By A. O. JARMANN. University of Wales Press, 1960. Pp. 1–31. 3s. Reviewed by Mary Williams.

THE SCALLOP: studies of a shell and its influences on humankind by eight authors. Edited by IAN COX, C.B.E., M.A. Published in London by the Shell Transport and Trading Company, 1957. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

A HISTORY OP BANBURY. By WILLIAM POTTS. The Banbury Guardian Ltd., 1958. Reviewed by Christina Hole.     

Notes on Names of the Thorn

CROW TEXTS. Collected, translated, and edited by ROBERT H. LOWIE, University of California Press and Cambridge U.P., 1960. Pp. xiii, 550. Price 52s. Reviewed by Geoffrey Turner.

STORIES FROM UIST, TOLD BY ANGUS MACLELLAN. Translated by J. G. CAMPBELL. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1961. Pp. xxix, 254, 1 photograph. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE EVERLASTING CIRCLE. English Traditional Verse from the MSS of S. Baring-Gould, H. E. D. Hammond and George B. Gardiner, By James Reeves. Heinemann, London. Pp. 303, 5 illus. Price 25s. net. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

THE TIGER'S WHISKER, AND OTHER TALES AND LEGENDS FROM ASIA AND THE PACIFIC. Collected by HAROLD COURLANDER. Methuen &; Co. 12s. 6d. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

GREEK CALENDAR CUSTOMS. By GEORGE A. MEGAS. Press and Information Department, Prime Minister's Office, Athens, 1958. Pp. 159 + 24 plates. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

HIGHLAND FOLK WAYS. By I. F. GRANT. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, 1961. Pp. xiii, 377, 77 text illustrations. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY OF SOCIETY. Vol, I. International Universities Press, Inc., New York, 1961. Reviewed by E. Baker.

SEASONAL FEASTS AND FESTIVALS. By E. O. JAMES. Thames and Hudson, 1961. 35s. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

JOURNAL OF THE ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY. Vol. 9, No. 1, December 1960. Reviewed by W.B.

ANCIENT BALLADS TRADITIONALLY SUNG IN NEW ENGLAND, Vol. I, University of Pennsylvania Press. Reviewed by C. H.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Reviewed by Christina Hole.     

Index to Folklore 117, 2006

ANGELOS N. DEFTEREOS (In Greek) BREAD A T BIRTH AND DEATH: ITS SYMBOLIC AND MAGICAL USE IN MODERN GREECE. Athens, 1979. (No publisher: distributed by the author at 37 Kapodistriou Sir., Filothei, Athens). Pp. 266; 800 drachmas. Reviewed by Gareth Morgan.

VORZEITKUNDE: MÜNDLICHES ERZÄHLEN UND ÜBERLIEFERN IM MITTELALTERLICHEN SKANDINAVIEN NACH DEM ZEUGNIS VON FORNALDARSAGA UND EDDISCHER DICHTUNG. (Skandinavistische Studien, Bd. 13). By PETER BUCHHOLZ. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster, 1980. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

I BUFFONI SACRI D'AMERICA E IL RIDERE SECONDO CULTERA. By GILBERTO MAZZOLENI. Roma-Bulzoni. 1st ed. 1973, 2nd ed. 1979. Reviewed by Douglas Gifford.

ETHNOGRAPHICA CARPATHO-BALCANICA. By BÉLA GUNDA. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1979.427 pp., illustrated. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

JOE SCOTT: THE WOODSMAN-SONGMAKER. By EDWARD D. IVES. University of Illinois Press. 1978. Pp. 473. Reviewed by Paul Smith.

HISTOIRES D'ENFANTS TERRIBLES: By VERONIKA G?ROG, SUZANNE PLATIEL, DIANA REY-HULMAN, and CHRISTIANE SEYDOU. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, 1980. Pp. 301. Reviewed by Loreto Todd.

ÜBER SOMATISCHE, PSYCHISCHE UND KULTURELLE HOMOLOGIE. By OTTO HOFLER. Wien 1980 (?sterreichische Adademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 366. Band. Homologie—Studien zur germanischen Kulturmorphologie Nr.1). Reviewed by Peter Buchholz.

SWISS-GERMAN AND DUTCH-GERMAN MENNONITE TRADITIONAL ART IN THE WATERLOO REGION, ONTARIO. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 27). By NANCY-LOU GELLERMANN PATTERSON. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1979. Pp. 216,129 Figs. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

SKILL AND STATUS: TRADITIONAL EXPERTISE WITHIN A RURAL CANADIAN FAMILY. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 28). By LAUREL DOUCETTE. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1979. Pp. 177,18 Figs. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

TEXTILE TRADITIONS OF EASTERN NEWFOUNDLAND. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 29). By GERALD L. POCIUS. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1979. Pp. 89, 40 Figs. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

LUNENBURG COUNTY FOLKLORE AND ORAL HISTORY: PROJECT '77. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 30). Edited by LAURIE LACEY. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1979. Pp. 142,22 Figs. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

A MADMAN OF CH'U: THE CHINESE MYTH OF LOYALTY AND DISSENT. By LAURENCE A. SCHNEIDER. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1980. Reviewed by Michael Loewe.

INTERPRETING FOLKLORE. By ALAN DUNDES. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and London, 1980. Pp. 304, paperback. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.     

Witches and the Number Thirteen

JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC COUNCIL, VOL. X, 1958. Reviewed by E. J. N.

PATTERNS IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION. By MIRCEA ELIADE. Translated by Rosemary Sheed. Sheed and Ward, 1958. Pp. 484. 25s. Reviewed by E. O. James.

THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF MUSIC, Vol. I, ‘Ancient and Oriental Music’. Edited by EGON WELLESZ. O.U.P., 1957. Pp. xxiv, 530; bibliography; illus. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

ORAL TALES OF INDIA. By STITH THOMPSON and JONAS BALYS. Indiana University Press. Pp. 448 + xxvi. $5.00. Reviewed by J. H. H.

GASTER CENTENARY PUBLICATION. Edited by B. SCHINDLER. Percy Lund, Humphries, and Co. Ltd., 1958. Pp. 40. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by E. O. James.

‘The Dead Obolus of the Slavs of Bohemia and Moravia’. By P. RADOMěRSKÝ. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, vol. IX, A. Historia, no. 2. Prague, 1955. Pp. 82, with 5 plates and a Map. Reviewed by L. V. Grinsell.

MYTH AND RITUAL IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. By E. O. JAMES. Thames and Hudson, 1958. 35s. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

ANDROW MYLLAR: a short study of Scotland's first printer. By THOMAS RAE. Greenock, The Signet Press, 1958. Pp. viii, 21. Cloth boards (25 copies) 15s. 6d.; paper covers 7s. 6d. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Reviewed by Christina Hole.     

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.     

The Killing of the Khazar Kings

PSYCHOLOGY AND PRIMITIVE CULTURE. By F. C. BARTLETT. Cambridge: University Press, 1923. Pp. xii + 294. 8s. 6d. n. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.

THE EXEMPLA OF THE RABBIS. By M. GASTER. [The. Asia Publishing Co.'s Oriental Series, edited by BRUNO SCHINDLER, Ph.D., Section III.: Palestine (Hebrew),. vol. I.] Leipzig-London, 1924. Pp. xlviii + 314 + 208. £2 2s. n. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

MASSENKUNST IM 16. JAHRHUNDERT, FLUGBLÄTTER AUS DER SAMMLUNG WICKIANA. FEHR, H. (Denkmale der Volkskunst, ed. by Wilhelm Fraenger). Berlin: Herbert Stubenrauch, 1924. 4°. Pp. 121 + 86. 10s. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

ANGLO-NORMAN LAPIDARIES. By PAUL STUDER and JOAN EVANS. Paris: Ed. Champion, 1924. 8vo. Pp. xx + 404. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

LES ROIS THAUMATURGES. Étude sur le caractere surnaturel attribué à la puissance royale, particulierèment en France et en Angleterre. By MARC BLOCH, Professeur à l'Univ. de Strasbourg. (Strasbourg and Paris, Librairie Istra, 1924.) Oxford University Press. Large 8vo. Pp. vii + 542; 4 plates. Fr. 30 (12s. 6d. n.). Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

LA POÉSIE CHEZ LES PRIMITIFS, OU CONTES, FABLES, RÉCITSET PROVERBES DU RWANDA (Lac Kivu). Par le R. P. EUGÈNE HUREL (Pères Blancs). Brussels: Goemaere, 21 Rue de la Limite), n.d. 10″ x 6½″. Pp. 260. 18 f. Reviewed by A. Werner.

LA LANGUE KISONGE. GRAMMAIRE—VOCABULAIRE—PROVERBES. Par le R. P. A. SAMAIN, Missionnaire de Scheut Au Kasai (Congo Beige). Brussels: Goemare, 21 Rue de la Limite, n.d. (Being No. XIV of the Bibliothèque-Congo). 10″ x 6½″. Pp. 152. Reviewed by A. Werner.

THE PANCHATANTRA RECONSTRUCTED. By FRANKLIN EDGERTON Connecticut, New Haven: American Oriental Society 1924. Two Vols. Vol. I., Text and Critical Apparatus Vol. II., Introduction and Translation. 8vo. Pp. x + 406 xix + 409. Reviewed by H. A. Rose.

THE OCEAN OF STORY : being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā. Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). Ed. by N. M. Penzer. (10 vols.) Vol. I. pp. xli + 334. Privately printed for subscribers: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1924. 10″ + 6?″. Pp. xli + 335. 42s. n. per vol. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.     

Reviews of Folklore Scholarship

AN INTERIM CHECKLIST OF CHAPBOOKS CONTAINING TRADITIONAL PLAY TEXTS, by M. J. PRESTON, M. G. SMITH and P. S. SMITH, History of the Book Trade in the North, Newcastle, 1976, £1.50: MORRICE DANCERS AT REVESBY, CECTAL Facsimiles No. 1, University of Sheffield, 1976, 75p: THE PACE EGG : THE MIDGLEY VERSION, Introduction by H. W. HARWOOD and F. H. MARSDEN, 2nd ed., David Bland, Halifax, 1977, 75p. Reviewed by Derek Froome.

FOLKLORE TODAY: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR RICHARD M. DORSON. Edited by LINDA DÉGH, HENRY GLASSIE and FELIX J. OINAS. Bloomington, Indiana University. 1976. xx+537 pp. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

THE MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE 1206–1370. By JOHN ANDREW BOYLE. Variorum Reprints, London. 1977. 316 pp. Reviewed by C. R. Bawden.

SCOTTISH PLACE-NAMES, THEIR STUDY AND SIGNIFICANCE. By W. F. H. NICOLAISEN. Batsford, London. 1976. 8vo, xxix+210 pp. £4.95. Reviewed by John McNeal Dodgson.

AMERICAN FOLK MEDICINE. Edited by WAYLAND D. HAND. University of California Press. Reviewed by Eric Trimmer.

ORAL POETRY. Its nature, significance and social content. By RUTH FINNEGAN. Cambridge University Press. 1977. Pp. 300. £7.50. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

THE FAIRIES IN TRADITION AND LITERATURE. By K. M. BRIGGS. Routledge &; Kegan Paul. £2.95. Reviewed by Alicia C. Percival.

THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE: FRANCES TOLMIE AND HER CIRCLE. By ETHEL BASSIN, ed. by DEREK BOWMAN. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London. 1977. Pp. 227. £5.95. Reviewed by E. B. Lyle.

PROBLEME DER SAGENFORSCHUNG. VERHANDLUNGEN DER TAGUNG VERANSTALTET VON DER KOMMISSION FUR ERZÄHLUNGSFORSCHUNG DER DEUTSCHEN GESELLSCHAFT FÜR VOLKSKUNDE … 1973 IN FREIBURG IM BREISGAU. Ed. by L. RÖHRICH. Freiburg, Forschungsstelle Sage. 1973. Pp. 219, 3 illustrations. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

B. P. SCHLIEPHACKE, MÄRCHEN, SEELE UND SINNBILD. Ed by E. KRACHT. Vol. 5 of the Schriften der Geselhchaft zur Pflege des Märchengutes der europaischen Völker. Münster (Verlag Aschendorff). 1974. Pp. 143. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

INDEX OF MEXICAN FOLKTALES. By STANLEY L. ROBE. Folklore Studies vol. 26. Berkeley (University of California Press), 1973. Pp. xxiii+276. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Book Reviews

IN SARA'S TENTS. By WALTER STARKIE, Litt.D. London, 1953. Pp. 339. 25s. net. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE SHEPHERDS' PLAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON. Coloquio de pastores del hijo prodigo. GEORGE C. BARKER. University of California Press, 1953. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA. By DAVID THOMSON. Turnstile Press. London. 1954. Pp. ix + 214. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE PERSONNEL OF FAIRYLAND. By K. M. BRIGGS, M.A., D. Phil. (Oxon.). Pp. 228. Oxford. 1953. 93. 6d. Reviewed by M. A. Murray.

BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN RELIGION. By S. H. HOOKE. Hutchinson's University Library, London. 1953. Pp. xii + 128. 8s. 6d. Reviewed by S. G. F. Brandon.

THE BIBLE. Historical Social and Literary Aspects of the Old and New Testaments. Published by The Times. 1954. Pp. 32, with illustrations, 1s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.