Some Other Hobby Horses

WELSH RURAL COMMUNITIES. By DAVID JENKINS, EMRYS JONES, T. JONES HUGHES and TREFOR M. OWEN. Edited by Elwyn Davies and Alwyn D. Rees. Reviewed by Raglan.

FOLKLORE-SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES. By DOROTHEA DIX LAWRENCE and WALTER L. ROSEMONT. The Dorothea Dix Lawrence Folklore Society, U.S.A., 1959. Reviewed by A. L. Lloyd.

Korean Folklore Studies Series, 1–2. ‘THE SURVEY OF KOREAN KITES’ (170 p.) and ‘A STUDY OF THE MASK PLAY OF HA-HOE’ (100 p.). CHOE SANG-SU. Published by the Korea Books Publishing Company, Ltd, of Seoul. Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

LE FOLKLORE DU LANGUEDOC. Contributions au Folklore des Provinces de France. Vol. VI. By CLAUDE SEIGNOLLE. Paris, 1960. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE HORSE IN THE FURROW. By GEORGE EWART EVANS. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe, Faber and Faber, 1960. Pp. 292. 25s. Reviewed by Christina Hole.

NILS VON HOFSTEN. PORS OCH ANDRA HUMLEERSÄTTNINGAR OCH ÖLKRYDDOR I ÄLDRE TIDER. Pp. 208–21, English summary: Bog myrtle (Myrica gale) and other substitutes for hops in former times. Uppsala, 1960. Reviewed by W. B.

BIBLIOGRAFIA DEL FOLKLORE PERUANO. Instituto Panamericano del Comision de Historia de la Publicaciones del Comite de Folklore–1. Moxico, 1960. Pp. 186. Reviewed by W. B.

PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Reviewed by Christina Hole.     

The English Fairies

FORTY-FIVE STORIES FROM THE DODECANESE. Ed. from the MSS. of J. Zarraftis and trans, by R. M. Dawkins. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1950. £5 5s. Reviewed by E. O. Winstedt.

THE CONCEPT OF DEITY : A Comparative and Historical Study. The Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion in the University of Oxford. By E. O. JAMES, D.Litt., D. D., Ph.D., F.S.A. Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College. Hutchinson's University Library, London. 1950. Pp. xiii, 200. 18s. Reviewed by S. H. Hooke.

A BOOK OF GYPSY FOLK-TALES, selected by DORA E. YATES, with a frontispiece by AUGUSTUS JOHN and a foreword by RUPERT CROFTCOOKE. London, Phoenix House, 1948. Pp. XVII, 197. Five illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

THE LASCAUX CAVE PAINTINGS. By FERNAND WINDELS. Faber &; Faber, 1949. Price 42s. Reviewed by D. A. E. Garrod.

FOLK-SONGS OF CHHATTISGARH. By VERRIER ELWIN. With a comment by W. G. Archer. Oxford University Press (Indian Branch) 1946, LXI-466 pp., Price: Rs. 15. Reviewed by C. Von Fürer-Haimendorf.

NUESTRA GENTE : “NAMUY MISAG” : TIERRA, COSTUMBRES Y CREENCIAS DE LOS INDIOS GUAMBIANOS. Textos de Gregorio Hernández de Alba. Dibujos de Francisco Tumiña Pillimue. Universidad del Cauca, Instituto Etnológico. Popayán, 1949. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

JOSÉ CELESTINO MUTIS. Lufs DE HOYOS SÁINZ. Breviarios de la Vida Española; Editora Nacional : Madrid, 1949. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

CHILDREN'S GAMES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. By LESLIE DAIKEN, B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1949. Pp. viii, 216. 18s.net. Reviewed by Iona Opie.

LE FOYER BRETON. By EMILE SOUVESTRE. Jean Vigneau, Paris, 1947. Reviewed by V. A..     

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.     

Additions To “The Gaues of Argyleshire.”

THE DIALECT OF THE GYPSIES OF WALES, BEING THE OLDER FORM OF BRITISH ROMANI PRESERVED IN THE SPEECH OF THE CLAN OF ABRAM WOOD. By JOHN SAMPSON, Hon. D.Litt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. Pp. xxiii + 230 + 419. 4to. £4 4s. Reviewed by T. W. Thompson.

LAST LEAVES OF TRADITIONAL BALLADS AND BALLAD AIRS, collected in Aberdeenshire by the late Gavin Greig. Edited, with Introductory Essay, Collations, and Notes, by ALEXANDER KEITH. Aberdeen: The Buchan Club, 1925. Pp. xliv + 320. Large 4to. £1 1s. 9d. post free. Reviewed by L. E. Broadwood.

FOLK SONGS OF FRENCH CANADA. Coll. and Edit, by MARIUS BARBEAU and EDWARD SAPIR, of the Canadian National Museum. New Haven : Yale Univ. Press (Oxford Univ. Press), 1925. Pp. xxii + 216. 9?″ + 7″. 18s. 6d. Reviewed by Lucy E. Broadwood.

REPORT OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1913–18. Vol. xiii. Eskimo Folk-Lore. Part A. Myths and Traditions from Northern Alaska, the Mackenzie Delta and Coronation Gulf. By D. JENNESS, Southern Party, 1913–16. Ottawa : F. A. Acland, 1924. Pp. 90. 9¾ x 6½. 25 ctS. Reviewed by P. J. Heather.

THE OCEAN OF STORV : being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). Ed. by N. M. PENZER. (10 vols.) Vol. II., pp. xxii + 375. Privately printed for subscribers. Chas. J. Sawyer, 1924. 10″ x6?″. 42s. n. per vol. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

THE LIFE AFTER DEATH IN OCEANIA AND THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. By ROSALIND MOSS. Oxford : Clarendon Press 1925. Pp. xii + 247. 8?″ x 5?″. 2 Maps Reviewed by W. J. Perry.     

Striped-petticoat Philosophy

THE CASSUBIAN CIVILIZATION. By FR. LORENTZ, Ph.D., ADAM FISCHER, Ph.D., and TAFEUSZ LEHR SP?AWI?SKI, Ph.D., with preface by BRONIS?AW MALINOWSKI, D.SC. Faber &; Faber. 9″ x 5½″. Pp. xxvi+407. London, 1925. 21s. Reviewed by M. E. Durham.

THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF WESTERN AMAZONAS : THE LIFE AND CULTURE OF THE JIBARO INDIANS OF EASTERN ECUADOR AND PERU. By RAFAEL KARSTEN. (Societas Scientiarum Fennica. Helsingfors). 1935. 9½ x 6½. Pp. 598. Plates, 33 illus. and map. Reviewed by Richard C. E. Long.

ANMERKUNGEN zu DEN KINDER- U. HAUSMAERCHEN DER BRUEDER GRIMM. Neu bearbeitet von JOHANNES BOLTE und GEORG POLIVKA. 5. Band. 1932. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig, vi, 305 pp. 8^o. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

PURO MEXICANO. Edited by J. FRANK DOBIE. Texas Folk-Lore Society Publications, Number XII. Austin, Texas. 1935. Pp. 261. n.p. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

THE PALESTINE POLICE CALENDAR OF EVENTS, 1936; issued by the Criminal Investigation Department, Palestine Police Force. The Central Prison Press, Jerusalem, for Official Use. 9½″ x 6¾″. Pp. 30. Reviewed by H. Coote Lake.

THE MONKS OF ATHOS. By R. M. DAWKINS, M.A., F.B.A. Pp. 408. 1936. Six plates, seven illustrations in the text, and a map of Athos. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 15s. Reviewed by F. H. Marshall.

ENGLISH FOLK-SONG AND DANCE. By IOLO A. WILLIAMS. With an Introduction by Sir John Squire. London: Longmans, Green &; Co. 1935. Price 3/6 net. Reviewed by Joan Sharp.     

Minutes of Meetings.

EUROPEAN FOLKLORE IN AMERICA. By REIDAR TH. CHRISTIANSEN Universitetsforlaget. Oslo, Scandinavian University Books, 1962. Reviewed by Amabel Williams-Ellis.

RAIN IN INDIAN LIFE AND LORE. Edited by SANKAR SEN GUPTA. Foreworded (sic) by Nirmal Kumar Bose. Calcutta, Indian Publications, 1963. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.

THE WHITE GOD OF THE AZTECS. By WILLIAM A. BERG. Pp. 412. Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1961. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY. Selections edited by SOL TAX from the ‘encyclopedic inventory’ prepared under the Chairmanship of A. L. KROEBER. Phoenix Books, 1963. 21s. net. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

Tire REALM OF GHOSTS. By ERIC MAPLE. Robert Hale, 21s. Reviewed by Geoffrey Palmer.

THE FOLKTALES OF ISRAEL. Edited by Dov NOY with the assistance of DAN BEN-AMOS. Translated by GENE BAHARAV: Folktales of the World, General Editor Richard M. Dorson. University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ANCIENT FESTIVALS OF ‘SATURNALIA’ TYPE. By PHOTEINE P. BOURBOULIS. Thessaloniki, 1963. Pp. 60. n.p. Reviewed by E. O. James.

WITCHCRAFT: EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN. By GEOFFREY PARRINDER. Faber and Faber, 1963. 25s. Reviewed by A. W. Smith.

‘SCHLÄGE’ ALS STRAFE. Ein Bestandteil der heutigen Familiensitte in volkskundlicher Sicht. By WÄLTER HAVERNICK. Hamburg, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1964. Pp. 164; 12 diagrams and 43 illustrations. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DIE ÖSTERREICHISCHEN SCHÜTZENGILDEN UND IHRE FESTE. 1500–1750. Studien zu ihrer Geschichte. By H. GOJA. Vienna, Verlag Notring der wissenschaftlichen Verbände Österreichs, 1963. Pp. 150; 2 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

ZAUBERPFLANZEN UND HEXENTRÄNKE. BRAUCHTUM UND ABERGLAUBE. By H. MARZELL. Kosmos-Bibliothek, Vol. 241. Stuttgart, Francksche Verlagshandlung, 1963. Pp. 88; 25 text illustrations, 8 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

CLARE PRIORY (SEVEN CENTURIES OF A SUFFOLK HOUSE). By K. W. BARNARDISTON. Cambridge, W. Heffer, 1962. 21s. Reviewed by A. A. Waugh.

THE TRADITIONAL TUNES OF THE CHILD BALLADS. With their Texts According to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America. Volume II. By BERNARD HARRIS BRONSON. Princeton University Press, 1962. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ROUND THE WORLD FAIRY TALES. Re-told by AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS. Illustrated by William Stobbs. Blackie. 25s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

FOLK LIFE COLLECTION AND CLASSIFICATION. By J. W. Y. HIGGS, M.A.: Published by the Museums Association, 1963. Pp. 58. 7s. Reviewed by R. U. Sayce.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS AND OTHER PIECES. By ARTHUR WALEY. George Allen &; Unwin Ltd. Pp. 320. 32s. Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

MORE TALES FROM THE FENS. By W. H. BARRETT. Edited by ENID PORTER. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. 25s. Reviewed by Carmen Blacker.

ATLAS DER DEUTSCHEN VOLKSKUNDE, NEUE FOLGE. Erläuterungen zur 2. Lieferung. Edited by M. ZENDER. Marburg, N. G. Elwert, 1963, Pp. 233–528; 6 illustrations, 31 text maps. Maps: NF 13–24. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

OESTERREICHISCHER VOLKSKUNDEATLAS. Edited by E. BURGSTALLER and A. HELBOK. 1st issue. Linz, 1959. 13 maps; comments, pp. 95, index of places, pp. 125. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

WITCHES. Investigating an Ancient Religion. By T. C. LETHBRIDGE. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. 21s. Reviewed by A. W. Smith.     

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.     

Short Notices. Sociological Papers. Volume II. Macmillan, 1906. 8vo. pp. xiv, 308.

MAGIC AND RELIGION. By ANDREW LANG. Longmans, 10s. 6d.

THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE. By W. RIDGEWAY, Disney Professor of Archæology in the University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 21s.

MYTHS OF GREECE. By GEORGE ST. CLAIR. 2 vols. Williams and Norgate.

THE REALMS OF THE EGYPTIAN DEAD. By K. A. WIEDEMANN. London: David Nutt. 1901. Reviewed by A. H. Sayce.

THE ETHNO-BOTANY OF THE COAHUILLA INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. By DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS. Chicago University Press. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

INDIAN STORY AND SONG FROM NORTH AMERICA. By ALICE C. FLETCHER. Boston : Small, Maynard, and Co. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CONTES DES LANDES ET DES GRÈVES. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Rennes: Hyacinthe Caillière. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

LES COQUILLAGES DE MER. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Paris: Maisonneuve. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

LE FOLK-LORE DES PÊCHEURS. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Paris: Maisonneuve. 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

TRADIZIONI POPOLARI PISTOIESI. RACCONTI POPOLARI PISTOIESI IN VERNACOLO PISTOIESI. Raccolti e pubblicati da RUDOLFO NERUCCI, Pistoia. 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE; ITS SOURCES AND ANALOGUES. By G. H. MAYNADIER, Instructor in English at Harvard University. (Grimm's Library. Vol. xiii.) Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE JUNIOR TEMPLE READER. By CLARA L. THOMPSON and E. E. SPEIGHT. Horace Marshall, 1s. 6d.

POPULAR STUDIES IN MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. No. 10. THE ROMANCE CYCLE OF CHARLEMAGNE AND HIS PEERS. By JESSIE L. WESTON. D. Nutt. 6d.     

Book reviews

MAGIC AND RELIGION. By ANDREW LANG. Longmans, 10s. 6d.

THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE. By W. RIDGEWAY, Disney Professor of Archæology in the University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 21s.

MYTHS OF GREECE. By GEORGE ST. CLAIR. 2 vols. Williams and Norgate.

THE REALMS OF THE EGYPTIAN DEAD. By K. A. WIEDEMANN. London: David Nutt. 1901. Reviewed by A. H. Sayce.

THE ETHNO-BOTANY OF THE COAHUILLA INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. By DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS. Chicago University Press. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

INDIAN STORY AND SONG FROM NORTH AMERICA. By ALICE C. FLETCHER. Boston : Small, Maynard, and Co. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CONTES DES LANDES ET DES GRÈVES. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Rennes: Hyacinthe Caillière. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

LES COQUILLAGES DE MER. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Paris: Maisonneuve. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

LE FOLK-LORE DES PÊCHEURS. By PAUL SÉBILLOT. Paris: Maisonneuve. 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

TRADIZIONI POPOLARI PISTOIESI. RACCONTI POPOLARI PISTOIESI IN VERNACOLO PISTOIESI. Raccolti e pubblicati da RUDOLFO NERUCCI, Pistoia. 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE; ITS SOURCES AND ANALOGUES. By G. H. MAYNADIER, Instructor in English at Harvard University. (Grimm's Library. Vol. xiii.) Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE JUNIOR TEMPLE READER. By CLARA L. THOMPSON and E. E. SPEIGHT. Horace Marshall, 1s. 6d.

POPULAR STUDIES IN MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. No. 10. THE ROMANCE CYCLE OF CHARLEMAGNE AND HIS PEERS. By JESSIE L. WESTON. D. Nutt. 6d.     

Hecate in Egypt

THE ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT ABOUT THE BODY, THE MIND, THE SOUL, THE WORLD, TIME, AND FATE, by R. B. ONIANS. Pp. xvii, 547. C. U. Press, 1951. 45s. Reviewed by J. H. Hutton.

NOTES AND QUERIES ON ANTHROPOLOGY. Sixth Edition, 1951. pp. 403. 28s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

LUÍS DE HOYOS SÁINZ Y NIEVES DE HOYOS SANCHO. Manual de Folklore da vida popular tradicional. Manuales de la Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1949. pp. 601, pl. xxii, figs. 16. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

POPUL VUH. The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya. English version by DELIA GOETZ and SILVANUS G. MORLEY, from the Spanish translation by ADRIAN RECINOS. Reviewed by Raglan.

FROM TOWN AND TRIBE ; translated and set down by C. G. Campbell. Pp. 217. London, Ernest Benn Limited. 1952. Price 10s. 6d. net Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.     

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.     

Folk-Lore Bibliography

LES FORMES ÉLÉMENTAIRES DE LA VIE RELIGIEUSE. Le Système Totémique en Australie. (Bibliothéque de Philosophie Contemporaine.) Par E. DURKHEIM. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1912. 8vo, pp. 647. Carte. 10 fr. Reviewed by B. Malinowski.

THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM. An enquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folk-lore, and mythologies. By HAROLD BAYLEY. 2 vols. Williams &; Norgate, 1912. 8vo, pp. x + 375, viii +388. Ill. 25s. n.

ISLANDICA. An Annual relating to Iceland and the Fiske Icelandic Collection in Cornell University Library. Vol. V. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MYTHICAL-HEROIC SAGAS. By HALLDÓR HERMANNSSON. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Lib., 1912. Pp. ix + 73. Reviewed by L. W. F.

ETHNOGRAPHY (TRIBES AND CASTES). By Sir ATHELSTANE BAINES, (in Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde). Strassburg: Trubner &; Co., 1912. 8vo, pp. 211. 10s. n. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA IN THE AGE OF THE MANTRAS. By P. T. SRINIVAS IYENGAR. Madras: Srinivasa Varadachari, 1912. Sm. 8vo, pp. x + 140. 2s. 6d. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

TANTRA OF THE GREAT LIBERATION (Mahānirvāna Tantra). A Trans, from the Sanskrit, with Intro, and Comm. By A. AVALON. Luzac &; Co., 1913. 8vo, pp. cxlvi + 360. 10s. n. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

HYMNS TO THE GODDESS. Translated from the Sanskrit. By A. and E. AVALON. Luzac &; Co., 1913. 8vo, pp. xii + 180. 4s. n. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE HOLY LAND OF THE HINDUS. By the Rev. R. L. LACEY. Robert Scott, 1913. Large cr. 8vo, pp. xii + 246. Map + 24 ill. 3s. 6d. n. Reviewed by W. Crooke.     

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..     

Folk-Lore from South-East Suffolk

THE ANATOMY OF PUCK. An examination of fairy beliefs among Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors. By KATHERINE M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959. Pp. 284,12 plates. Cloth 30s. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

MANUEL DE FOLKLORE FRANCAIS CONTEMPORAIN. Vol. 1, Pts. V, VI, VII, By ARNOLD VAN GENNEP. A. et J. Picard et Cie, Paris, 1951, 1953. 1958. Pp. xxviii, xxiv, xi; 2137–3166; 19, 9, 20 maps and portraits. Paper. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

LO KUAN-CHUNG'S ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS. Translated by C. H. BREWITT-TAYLOR. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan, 1959, 2 vol. (by photo-offset). Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

DEVON TRADITIONS AND FAIRY-TALES. By J. R. W. COXHEAD. The Raleigh Press, Exmouth, 1959. Pp. 122. Cloth, 10s. 6d., Paper, 6s. 6d. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

FIFTY YEARS A POTTER. By W. FISHLEY HOLLAND. IX, 105. The Caravel Press, 1958. 18s. Reviewed by R. U. Sayce.

VON PRINZEN, TROLLEN UND HERRN FRO, Märchen der europäischen Völker. Yearbook of the Society zur Pflege des Märchengutes der europäischen Völker. 4 vols. Rheine, 1956–9. Pp. 176, 176, 247, 256. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

OESTERREICHISCHER VOLKSKUNDEATLAS. Ed. by E. BURGSTALLER and A. HELBOK. ist issue (Linz, 1959). 13 maps; comments 95 pp. — Index of places pp. 125. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

SEEKING LIFE. By VERA LASKI. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, 1958. Pp. 176 (mimeographed). Reviewed by Beatrice Blackwood.

THE LORE AND LANGUAGE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN. By IONA AND PETER OPIE. Oxford University Press, 1959. Pp. 417. 35s. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

THE LULLABY BOOK. By LESLIE DAIKEN. Edmund Ward Ltd, 1959. Plates and other illustrations. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

STUDIES IN FOLKLORE. Edited by W. EDSON RICHMOND. Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series, no. 9. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1957. Pp. xv, 270. Reviewed by W. B.

WELSH FOLK CUSTOMS. By TREFOR M. OWEN. Cardiff, 1959. Pp. 258. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by Raglan.     

Collectanea

DANSK FOLKE DIGTNING. Edited by ERIK DAL. Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1967. Pp. 363. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

PEDER LÅLE OG COD. BASIL. A. xi. 67. By IVER KJAER. (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier, nr. 5.) Copenhagen, 1964. Pp. 18 + English summary. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

DET STORE SKIB OG DEN STORE GARD. By GUSTAV HENNINGSEM, (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier nr. 6.) Copenhagen 1964. Pp. 17 + English summary. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

AHASVERUS IN DANEMARK. By ERIK DAL. (Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, Studier nr. 7.) Copenhagen, 1964. Pp. 26. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

TRIBES AND FORMS IN AFRICAN ART. By WILLIAM FAGG. Methuen, 1965. Pp. 24, plates 122, double spread; End Maps. 6 gns. net. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

RESEARCHES INTO THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF FOLK BALLAD. By LAJOS VARGYAS. Budapest, Academy of Sciences, 1967. Pp. 303. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

THE FAIRIES IN TRADITION AND LITERATURE. By K. M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. 42s. Reviewed by Roger Lancelyn Green.

GARNERS GAY, Folk Song Today, No. 2; English Folk Songs collected by FRED HAMER. London, E.F.D.S. Publications, 1967. Pp. 80. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

SCRIPTA INSTITUTI DONNERIANI ABOENSIS, I: Studies in Shamanism, edited by Carl-Martin Edsman. II: Fatalistic Beliefs in Religion, Folklore and Literature, edited by Helmer Ringgren. Stockholm, 1967. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.

PAGAN SCANDINAVIA. By H. R. ELLIS DAVIDSON. Thames and Hudson, 1967. Pp. 214. 42s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

WITCHCRAFT IN IRELAND. By PATRICK E. BYRNE. The Mercier Press. 5s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY OF THE FLATHEAD INDIANS. By ALAN P. MERRIAM. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1967. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology (edited by SOL TAX), no. 45. Pp. xvi + 403. Reviewed by Peter Crossley-Holland.

EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE VIKING AGE. By JACQUELINE SIMPSON. London B. T. Batsford Ltd., and New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Pp. 208; 15 plates. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

DEUTSCHE VOLKSMÄRCHEN AUS RUSSLAND UND RUMÄNIEN. By A. CAMMANN. Monographien der Wittheit zu Bremen 6. Göttingen, Verlag Otto Schwartz &; Co. 1967. Pp. 456; Photos 35; Maps 3. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DIE WEIHNACHTSSCHÜTZEN DES BERCHTESGADENER LANDES UND IHR BRAUCHTUM. By RUDOLF KRISS. Berchtesgaden, Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, 1967. Pp. 196; 40 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DANISH BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS. Edited by ERIK DAL. Translated by HENRY MEYER. Copenhagen, Rosenkilde &; Bagger, 1967. Pp. 303, 49, 50 kr. Reviewed by Aage Jørgensen.

THE COUNTRY LIFE BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH CUSTOMS. By Roy CHRISTIAN. Country Life. 35s. Reviewed by Mary Hudleston.

THE GIANT OF CERNE ABBAS. By H. S. E. DEWAR. West Country Folklore, No. 1 (General Editor: Theo Brown). Mount Durand, St Peter Port, Guernsey, the Toucan Press. Pp. 10, 1 plate. Price: 2s. 6d. Reviewed by Hilda R. Ellis Davidson.

FABELDYR OG SAGNFOLK. By BENGT HOLBEK and JØRN PIØ. Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 1967. 512; Illus. 200. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.     

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L'ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE, publiée sous la direction de Émile Durkheim, Professeur de Sociologie à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Bordeaux. Quatrieme Année (1899–1900). Paris: Félix Alcan. 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE LEGEND OF SIR LANCELOT DU LAC By JESSIE L. WESTON. (Grimm Library, vol. xii.) D. NUTT. 1901. Reviewed by Walter W. Greg.

STORIES OF THE HIGH-PRIESTS OF MEMPHIS. By F. Ll. GRIFFITH. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. Reviewed by A. H. Sayce.

DE DIIS IN LOCIS EDITIS CULTIS APUD GRÆCOS. Casparus Albers. Zutphaniæ, W. J. Thieme &; Cie., 1901. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

FABLES AND FOLKTALES FROM AN EASTERN FOREST. By W. SKEAT. Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.

INDIAN FABLES. By RAMASWAMI RAJU. Swan Sonnenschein. 5s.

RECORDS OF WOMEN'S CONFERENCE ON THE HOME LIFE OF CHINESE WOMEN. November, 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.     

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.