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 Elements in Nineteenth-Century Puritanism

THE IDIOM OF THE PEOPLE. By JAMES REEVES. Heinemann, 1958. Pp. xii, 244. Reviewed by Margaret Dean-Smith.

EUSKALERRIKO IPUIÑAK: Basque Folktales. Edited with notes and Spanish versions by A. IRIGARAY. Itxaropena Argitaldaria, Zarauz, 1957. Pp. 225, 40 pesetas. Reviewed by P. L. Henry.

DAHOMEAN NARRATIVE. A Cross-Cultural Analysis. By MELVILLE J. and FRANCES S. HERSKOVITS. Northwestern University Press, Evanstown, 1958. Pp. xvi, 490. Reviewed by Jack Berry.

FOLKLORE OF OTHER LANDS. By A. M. SELVI, L. KAHN, R. C. SOULE. S. F. Vanni; New York. Five dollars. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ALTE NEWE ZEITUNG. A sixteenth-century collection of fables. Edited by ELI SOBEL. Folklore Studies x, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1958. Pp. xii, 64. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

BRAUCHTUMSGEBÄCKE UND WEIHNACHTSSPEISEN. Ein volkskundlicher Beitrag zur österreichischen Kulturgeographie. By E. BURGSTALLER. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für den Volkskundeatlas in Österreich, vol. ii, Linz, 1957. Pp. 136, (18), 7; 5 plates, 22 maps. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE, Vol. 1–67, 68, 69, 70. By TRISTRAM P. COFFIN. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, 1958. Pp. xvi, 383. $6.50. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

DEUTSCHES HANDWERKERLEBEN UND DER AUFSTIEG DER STADT. By MAX RUMPF. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1955. Pp. 244, 106 photographs. WÜRTTEMBERGISCHES JAHRBUCH FÜR VOLKSKUNDE, 1956. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1956. Pp. 164; 12 photographs, 1 map and 2 drawings. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

DAS VOTIVBILD. By L. KRISS-RETTENBECK. Hermann Rinn, Munich, 1958. Pp. 185; Plates 173. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE SINGING MOUNTAINEERS. By RUTH STEPHANS. Thomas Nelson &; Sons, Edinburgh, 1958. 18s. net. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

THE YOUNG TRAVELLER IN MEXICO. By BETTY ROSS. Phoenix House, London 1958. Pp. 136. 9s. 6d. net. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

THE COLLECTING OF FOLK MUSIC AND OTHER ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL MATERIAL. Edited by Maud Karpeles. Reviewed by A. H.

THE PREHISTORY OF AFRICA. By H. ALIMEN. Hutchinson, London, 1957. 63s. Reviewed by Robert A. Kennedy.     

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.     

Sussex Folklore

SING A SONG OF ENGLAND : A SOCIAL HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL SONG. By REGINALD NETTEL. Phoenix House, 1954. Pp. 286, 5 pi. 8 vo. Reviewed by A. G.

FOLKSONGS AND FOLKLORE OF SOUTH UIST. By MARGARET FAY SHAW. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1955. Pp. xiv, 290 + 24 plates + map. 50s. Reviewed by W. B.

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, VOL. 4. New York, International Universities Press, Inc. 1955. Pp. 295. $6.00. Reviewed by W. B.

FESTSCHRIFT FÜR WILL-ERICH PEUCHERT ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAG. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON HELMUT DÖLKER. Berlin, E. Schmidt, 1955. Pp. ix, 164 + portrait. DM. 19.80. Reviewed by W. B.

NEW MEXICO VILLAGE ARTS. By ROLAND F. DICKEY. Drawings by LLOYD LÓZES GOFF. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 1949. Pp. xii + 266. $5.00. Reviewed by Beatrice Blackwood.

THE LAND DAVAKS OF SARAWAK. By W. R. GEDDES, M.A. (N.Z.), Ph.D. (Lond.), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954. Colonial Research Studies No. 14, Pp. 113, folding maps and tables, 3 pp. of plates. £1 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by Beatrice Blackwood.     

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.     

In Memoriam William Wells Newell,Died at Wayland,Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907

CELTIC MYTH AND ARTHURIAN ROMANCE. By ROGER SHERMAN LOOMIS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. 9″x5?″. Pp. xii+371. 30s. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

BÉALOIDEAS : The Journal of the Folk-Lore of Ireland Society. Published by the Society at Room 78, University College, Dublin, 1927. Volume I, Parts i and ii. Pp. 205. 8vo. Ann. sub. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

LIA FÁIL. Dublin: 89 Talbot Street. Large 8vo. 5s. per vol. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

“THE PACK OF AUTOLYCUS,” or Strange and terrible news of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and other Prodigious and Fearful happenings as told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624–1693. Edited by HYDER EDWARD ROLLINS. Cambridge (Harvard) University Press, 1927. 4to. Pp. xvii+270. Ill. 2is. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

DIE HELLENISTISCHEN MYSTERIENRELIGIONEN nach ihren Grundgedanken und Wirkungen. By R. REITZENSTEIN. 3rd ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1927. 8vo. Pp. viii+438. 16s. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE NEGRO AND HIS SONGS. A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South. By HOWARD W. ODUM and GUY B. JOHNSON. Chapel Hill, Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ. of North Carolina Press (Oxford Univ. Press), 1925. 9″ x 5?″. Pp. xii. + 306. 18s. 6d. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

FOLK BELIEFS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO. By NEWBELL NILES PUCKETT. Chapel Hill, Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ. of North Carolina Press (Oxford Univ. Press), 1926. 9″x5?″. 9 ill. Pp. xvi+644. 22s. 6d. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

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.     

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.     

Glasgow university library Sölch collection : A note

EUROPE

The Soils around Jedburgh and Morebattle. By John W. Muir. 9 ¾×6 ¾. Pp. 878. 2 maps. 20 tables. 11 diagrams. 32 plates. 8 colour plates. Edinburgh : H.M.S.O., 1956. 30s.

The British Moorlands : A problem in land utilisation. By John Fraser Hart. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. viii+98. 25 figures. University of Georgia Monograph, No. 2. Athens (U.S.A.) : Georgia University Press, 1955. $2.00.

European Refugees : A Study in Forced Population Movement. By Malcolm J. Proudfoot. 5 ½×8 ½. Pp. vi+542. 49 tables. 2 maps. London: Faber &; Faber Ltd, 1957. 52s 6d.

East Norway and its Frontiers. By Frank Noel Stagg. 8 ¾×5 ¾. Pp.285. 15 plates. 6 maps. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 18s.

La Yougoslavie : Aperçu Géographique. By B. Z. Milojevic. Translated by Mila Dordlvic. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp. xi+89. I folded end map and numerous figures and plates. Beograd : La Commission pour les relations culturelles avec l'étranger, 1956.

ASIA

The Pakistani Way of Life. By I. H. Qureshi. 8 ¾×5 ¾. Pp. xi+81. 23 plates. London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1955. 12s 6d.

Indian Climatology. By S. B. Chattergee. 9 ½×6 ¼. Pp. 417. 36 tables. 80 diagrams. Calcutta : Commercial Printers, 1955. 20s.

Asia : Sketch Map and Exercise Books for upper forms. Book VII. By Thomas Pickles. 7 ¼×9 ¾. Pp.48. London : John Murray Ltd, 1956. 3s.

AMERICA

The Industrial Structure of American Cities : A geographic study of urban economy in the United States. By Gunnar Alexandersson. 10×7 ½. Pp. 134. 40 figs. 13 maps. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 40s.

CARTOGRAPHY

Topographical Maps and Photographic Interpretation. By P. T. Silley. 9 ½×6 ½. Pp. vii+76. 8 maps with 8 plates. 3 plates. 53 figs. London: George Philip and Son Ltd, 1955. 10s 6d.

Map and Photo Reading. By T. W. Birch. 10×7 ½. Pp.64. 24 maps and photos. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1956. 16s.

Mapping the World. By Erwin Raisz. 6 ½×9 ½. Pp. 112. 72 figs and 7 plates. London : Abelard‐Schuman, 1956. 12s 6d.

GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY

Introduction to Physical Geology. By Chester R. Longwell and R. Foster Flint. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp.vii+432. Plates and figs. 2 end paper maps. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1955. 40s.

Geology and Ourselves. By F. H. Edmunds. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp. 256. 12 plates. 15 figs. London : Hutchison's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1955. 21s.

Der Bodenfrost als Morphologischer Faktor. By Josef Schmid. 9 ½×7 ½. Pp. viii+144. 27 figs. 5 plates. Heidelberg : Dr Alfred Huthig Verlag, 1955.

Vocabulaire Franco‐anglo‐allemande de Geomorphologie. By Henri Baulig. 9 ½×6 ¼. Pp. xxv+230. Publications de la Faculte des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg. Fasc. 130. Paris: Société d'edition: Les Belles Lettres, 1956. 1,200 fr.

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

World Economic Geography. By Earl B. Shaw. 8 ¾×6 ½. Pp. vii+582. Maps, diagrams and plates. New York : John Wiley and Sons Inc. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1955. 52s.

Chisholm's Handbook of Commercial Geography. Re‐written by L. Dudley Stamp and S. Carter Gilmour. 15th Edition. 8 ¾×6. Pp. viii+915. 30 maps and diagrams. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1956. 70s.

La Pêche maritime el le Pêcheur en Mer. By Auguste Dupouy. 6 ½×4 ¼. Pp. 216. [Collection Armand Colin, No. 300.] Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1955. 250 fr.

GENERAL

A Concise Glossary of Geographical Terms. By J. C. Swayne. 6 ¼×4. Pp. 164. London : George Philip and Son Ltd, 1956. 6s 6d.

Worlds Beyond the Horizon. By Joachim G. Leithauser. Transl. by Hugh Merrick. 9 ½×6. Pp. 371. 46 plates+frontispiece. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 40s.

A Guide to Earth History. By Richard Carrington. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. xvi+240. 44 figs. 16 plates, including coloured frontispiece, by Maurice Wilson. London : Chatto and Windus Ltd, 1956. 21s.

Puzzle of the Past. By Ronald Jessup. 12 ¾×9 ¾. Pp.68. Illustrations (colour/black and white). London : Rathbone Books, 1956. 15s.

ATLASES AND MAPS

The Oxford Home Atlas of the World. By Geoffrey Cumberlege. 10×7 ¾. Pp. viii+104+xxxi. London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 15s.

Map of Roman Britain : 16 miles to one inch. Third Edition. Text 11×8 ¼. Pp.43. 4 maps+Map of Roman Britain. Chessington : Ordnance Survey, 1956. 7s 6d.

Penguin Atlas. Edited by J. S. Keats. 8×5 ¾. Pp. xv+156. 80 colour maps. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1956. 10s.

Oxford Regional Economic Atlas of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. Oxford : Clarendon Press. London : Cumberlege, 1956. 42.s.     

Overseas relations

EUROPE

The Making of the English Landscape. By W. G. Hoskins. 8 3/4×7. Pp. 240. 82 plates+frontispiece. 17 maps and plans. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1955. 25s.

The Highlands in Colour. Photographed by W. S. Thomson : introduced by W. H. Murray. 10×7 1/2. Pp. 64 (7 text+54 pages of photos). Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1954. 12s 6d.

Scotland. By G. S. Fraser and Edwin Smith. 12 1/4 ×9. Pp. 62+191 black and white and 3 colour plates. 1 map. London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1955. 42s.

Ulster Folklife. Issued by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions, 9 3/4×7 1/4. Pp. 56. 6 plates. Belfast, 1955.

Highlights of the Donegal Highlands. By H. P. Swan. 9×6. Pp. xv+186. 97 plates. 2 endpaper maps. Belfast: H. R. Carter Publications Ltd, 1955. 12s 6d.

AFRICA

Southern Africa. A Geographical Study. By John H. Wellington. Two volumes. 9 1/2 ×6 3/4. Vol. I. Pp.528. 97 photographs. 96 figures and maps. 4 maps in end pocket, 70s. : Vol. II. Pp. 283. 14 photographs. 25 figures and maps. 4 maps in end pocket. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1955.

A. MacP.

ASIA

To the Third Pole. By G. O. Dyhrenfurth. Translated by Hugh Merrick. 10×7 1/2. Pp. xxvi+233. 47 plates. London : T. Werner Laurie, 1955. 30s.

Kanchenjunga. By John Tucker. 9×6. Pp. 224. 35 plates and figs. London : Elek Books Ltd, 1955. 21s.

AMERICA

Virginia at Mid‐Century. By Jean Gottmann. 9 1/2×6 1/4. Pp. vii+584. 64 maps and graphs. 197 photos. New York : Henry Holt and Co. Inc., 1955.

CARTOGRAPHY

Die Kartographie 1943–54 (Eine bibliographische Uebersicht). By Hans‐Peter Kosack and Karl‐Heinz Meine. 8×11 5/8. Pp. 216. Lahr Schwarzwald: Astra Verlag, 1955. German marks 26.

GEOMORPHOLOGY

New Zealand Geomorphology. By C. A. Cotton. 8 1/2×51/2. Pp. 281. 16 plates. Wellington : New Zealand University Press, 1955. 42s.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origin and Distribution of the British Flora. By J. R. Matthews. 7JX5. Pp.176. 6 figs. London : Hutchinson's University Library (Biological Series), 1955. 8s. 6d.

BIOGRAPHY

Alicella : A Memoir of Alice King Stewart and Ella Christie. By Averil Stewart. 81/2×6. Pp. xxiv+311. 10 plates. London: John Murray Ltd, 1955. 21s.

The Seasons Return. By John R. Allan. 8 3/4×53/4. Pp. 219. 17 plates. London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1955. 15s.

GENERAL

Four Archaeological Studies

Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers. By Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 7 1/8×5 1/4. Pp.224. 20 figs. 30 plates. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1955‐ 3s. 6d.

Roman Britain. By I. A. Richmond. The Pelican History of England, Volume I. 7 1/8×51/4. Pp‐240. 8 plates. 12 figs. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1955. 2s 6d.

Roman Roads in Britain : 1. South of the Foss Way—Bristol Channel. By Ivan D. Margary. 10×1/2. Pp.253. 16 plates+frontispiece. 11 maps+1 folded end map. London : Phoenix House Ltd, 1955. 42s.

The Problem of the Picts. Edited by F. T. Wainwright. 9 1/4×63/4. Pp. xi+187. 12 plates. 16 figs. 7 maps. Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1955. 21s.

Historical Geography. By J. B. Mitchell. 71/2×5. Pp. xvi+356. 52 figs. London: English Universities Press Ltd. [Teach Yourself Geography], 1954. 10s 6d.

The Ordnance Survey Annual Report, 1954–55. 13 1/2×81/2. Pp. 5–23. 10 plates. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. 5s.

ATLASES AND MAPS

A New Map of the World: The Trystan Edwards Homalographic Projection. 40×30. London : B. T. BatsfordLtd, 1953 reprinted 1955. 42s. Explanatory Brochure.     

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 Sacred Marriage

DAVID OF SASSOUN: THE ARMENIAN FOLK EPIC IN FOUR CYCLES. Translated by ARTIN K. SHALIAN Ohio University Press, 1964, pp. 377. $10.00. Reviewed by E. O. James.

VOICES IN THE VALLEY. FRANK R. KRAMER. University of Wisconsin Press. 300 pp. $5. Reviewed by A. W. Smith.

DIE ROLLE DES HUNDES IN AFRICANISCHEN KULTUREN. By BARBARA FRANK. Studien zur Kulturkunde Vol. 17. Wiesbaden Franz SteinerVerlag, 1965. Pp.(6), 256. 5 Maps. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

GLI USI FUNEREI SARDI SECONDO LE VOCI DEL ‘DIZIONARIO DEGLI STATI SARDI’ COMPILATE DA VITTORIO ÁNGIUS. By ENRICA DELITALA. Offprint from Studi Sardi, XVIII for 1962–3, Gallizzi, Sassari, 1964. Pp. 65: map. Reviewed by Francis Celoria.

CONTES TRADITIONNELS DES TEILLEURS DE LIN DU TRÉGOR (BASSEBRETAGNE). By Geneviève Massignon. A. et J. Picard et Cie, 1965. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

HISTORY, TIME AND DEITY. By S. G. F. BRANDON. Manchester University Press, 1965. Pp. 240. 35s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY. Primitive Man in Egypt, Western Asia and Europe. By DOROTHY A. E. GARROD and J. G. D. CLARK. Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. 61.8s. 6d. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

UNSERE ORTSNAMEN IM ABC ERKLART. By WILDHELM STURMFELS and HEINZ BISCHOF. 3rd, revised, edition. Dummlers, Bonn, 1961. Pp. 359, including Introduction, Indices and Bibliography. Reviewed by John McN. Dodgson.

THE NORTHMEN TALK. A Choice of Tales from Iceland. Translated by JACQUELINE SIMPSON. Foreword by Eric Linklater. J. M. Dent and Sons, Phoenix House and the University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Pp. i–xxix, 290. 30s. net. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

ORAL TRADITION, A Study in Historical Methodology. By JAN VANSINA, translated by H. M. WRIGHT. Routledge &; Kegan Paul Ltd. 30s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

GENTLE PLACES AND SIMPLE THINGS. By KEVIN DANAHER. Cork, The Mercier Press. 1964. Pp. 125. 5s. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

A FENMAN'S STORY. By W. H. BARRETT. Routledge &; Kegan Paul Ltd. May 1965. 21s. Reviewed by Beatrice Blackwood.

ONCE UPON A TIME; Fifty Hungarian Folk-Tales. By GYULA ILLYES. Translated by Barna Balogh and Susan Kun. Corvina Press. 1964. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

ULSTER DIALECTS; AN INTRODUCTORY SYMPOSIUM. Published by the Ulster Folk Museum, 1964. Pp. XIII, 201. 20s. Reviewed by Estyn Evans.

A BOOK OF MYTHS. Selected and retold by ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. Illustrated by Joan Liddell-Monroe. Dent, Children's Illustrated Classics. 16s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

WEST COUNTRY FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. An Account of Village Benefit Clubs and their Brass Pole Heads. By MARGARET D. FULLER. The Oakwood Press for the Museum of English Rural Life, the University of Reading, 1964. Pp. xii, 73: Plates LII + map. 63s. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

STRUTTURA E ORIGINE MORFOLOGICA DEI MUTOS E DEI MUTTETOS SARDI. By A. M. CIRESE. Sardinia, Università degli Studi de Cagliari, 1964. Pp. 193. Reviewed by Francis Celoria.

DUTCH TILES. By DINGEMAN KORF. London, Merlin Press, 1963. Pp. 136. GLASS AND CRYSTAL, I, from the earliest times to 1850. By ELKA SCHRIJVER. Merlin Press, 1963. Pp. 134. Reviewed by W. Bonser.     

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.     

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Stray Notes on Japanese Folklore.

A WORLD REMEMBERED: TALES AND LORE OF THE POLISH LAND. Collected and compiled by MARION MOORE COLEMAN. Cherry Hill Books, 1965. Price 5 dollars. Reviewed by Violet Mason.

ANNUAL CUSTOMS AND FESTIVALS IN PEKING. By TUN LI-CH'EN. Trans lated and Annotated by DERK BODDE. Hong Kong University Press; Oxford University Press. Pp. 147. 52s. 6d. Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

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HEALTH AND HEALING IN RURAL GREECE. By RICHARD AND EVA BLUM, Stanford University Press. 30s. Reviewed by Eric J. Trimmer.

SAGEN UND HIRE DEUTUNG. By MAX LÜTHI, LUTZ RÖHRICH and GEORG FOHRER. Introduction by W. E. Peuckert. Evangelisches Forum. Heft 5. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, 1965. Pp. 80. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DAS MÄRCHEN. SEIN ORT IN DER GEISTIGEN ENTWICKXUNG, By HEDWIG VON BEIT. Bern, Francke Verlag, 1965. Pp. 373. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

EARLY IRISH POETRY. Edited by JAMES CARNEY. Cork, The Mercier Press, 1965. Pp. 99. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE FIRST BOOK OF IRISH MYTHS AND LEGENDS. With introduction by EOIN NEESON. Cork, The Mercier Press, no year. Pp. 126. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

TRADITIONAL COUNTRY CRAFTSMEN. By J. GERAINT JENKINS. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 45s. Reviewed by D. N. Kennedy.

THE HOGARTH BOOK OF SCOTTISH NURSERY RHYMES. Collected and edited by NORAH AND WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. London. Hogarth Press, 1964. 15s. Reviewed by W. Bonser.

ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHAEOLOGY. An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography. By KARL W. BUTZER. Methuen, 1965. Pp. 524. 84s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

PATTERNS OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR. By S. FORD and FRANK A. BEACH. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965. Pp. 330. 30s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.