Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

KING ARTHUR IN HISTORY AND LEGEND. By W. LEWIS JONES. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1911. 16mo, pp. vi + 145. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

SIR PERCEVAL OF GALLES. A Study of the Sources of the Legend. By REGINALD HARVEY GRIFFITH. Chicago: University Press, 1911. 8vo, pp. viii + 131. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE BLEEDING LANCE. By A.C.I. BROWN. Modern Language Association of America, 1911. 8vo, pp. 59. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE TWO KNIGHTS OF THE SWAN, LOHENGRIN AND HELYAS. By ROBERT JAFFRAY. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. 8vo, pp. ix + 123. Ill. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

ANCIENT HUNTERS AND THEIR MODERN REPRESENTATIVES. By W. J. SOLLAS. Macmillan &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xvi + 416. Ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

ANTHROPOLOGY. By R. R. MARETT. (Home University Library). Williams &; Norgate, n.d. 16mo, pp. 256. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

PREHISTORIC MAN. By W. L. H. DUCKWORTH. (Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature). Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1912. 16mo, pp. 156. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE THUNDERWEAPON IN RELIGION AND FOLKLORE. A Study in Comparative Archaeology. By CHR. BLINKENBERG. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1911. Demy 8vo, pp. xii + 122. Ill. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

THE WORLD OF DREAMS. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Constable &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xii + 288.

SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS. By GEORGE HENDERSON. Glasgow: James MacLehose &; Sons. 8vo, pp. xi + 346. 1911. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

COSTUMES, TRADITIONS AND SONGS OF SAVOY. By ESTELLA CANZIANI. Chatto and Windus, 1911. 4to, pp. xiii + 180. Col. pl. and text ill. Reviewed by W. F. Kirby.

VOLKSLIEDER AUS DEM KANTON AARGAU. Gesammelt von SIGMUND GROLIMUND. (Schriften der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, No. 8). Basel: Augustinergasse 8, 1911. 8vo, pp. vi + 279. Reviewed by Lucy E. Broadwood.

THE BAGANDA. An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs. By the Rev. JOHN ROSCOE. Macmillan &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xix + 547. Ill. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA. By E. THURSTON, assisted by K. Rangachari. 7 vols. Madras: Government Press, 1909. 8vo. Ill. Reviewed by M. Longworth Dames.

GRUNDLINIEN EINER VERGLEICHUNG DER RELIGIONEN UND MYTHOLOGIEN DER AUSTRONESISCHEN VÖLKER. Von P. W. SCHMIDT. In Denkschriften d. K. Akademie d. Wissenschaften in Wien, 1910. 4to, pp. viii + 142. Reviewed by B. Malinowski.

DIE MYTHOLOGIE DER AUSTRONESISCHEN VÖLKER. Von P. W. SCHMIDT. (Reprint from Mittteil. d. Anthrop. Ges. in Wien, vol. xxxix.) Reviewed by B. Malinowski.     

Notes and News

FESTSKRIFT TILLEGNAD EDVARD WESTERMARCK. I anledning av Hans Femtivårsdag Den 20 November 1912. Helsingfors: J. Simelii Arvinjars Boktryikeriaktiebolag, 1912. 8vo, pp. vii + 304. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

LAOGRAPHIA: The organ of the Greek Anthropological Society; Vol. iii.–Vol. iv. 1–2, 1911–13. Athens: P. A. Sakellarios. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

DRACHEN UND DRACHENKÄMPFER. Von GÉZA RÓHEIM. (An off-print, with enlargements, from Jung-Ungarn, 1911.) Berlin, 1912. 4to, pp. 56. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

[GREEK POPULAR SONGS ON ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.] Reprinted from Laographia, vol. iv. By N. G. POLITES. Athens, 1913. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

DESPRE CIMIUTURI. By G. PASCU. Part I., Philological Study. Jasi, 1909. 8vo, pp. xi + 276. Part II, Folkloric Study. Bucharesti, 1911. 4to, pp. 220. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

HAUSA FOLK-LORE CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, ETC. By R. SUTHERLAND-RATTRAY. Preface by R. R. MARETT. 2 vols. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1913. 8vo, pp. xxiv. + 327, 315. 30s. n. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

HAUSA SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS. An Introduction to the Folk-Lore, and the Folk. By Major A. J. N. TREMEARNE. John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1913. 8vo., pp. xv + 548. Map + 41 pi. + 200 text figs. 21s. n. Reviewed by J. H. Weeks.

MYTHS OF THE MODOCS. By JEREMIAH CURTIN. Sampson. Low, Marston, &; Co., 1913. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii + 389. 12s. 6d. n. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.     

Legends of the Caucasus

Irish Texts Society, Vol. X.— The Story of the Crop-Eared Dog. The Story of Eagle-Boy. Two Irish Arthurian Romances. Edited and Translated By R. A. Stewart MacAlister. Nutt, 1908. 8vo., pp. ix + 207. By Jessie Weston.

Royal Irish Academy Todd Lecture Series, Vol. xv. The Instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt. K. Meyer. Dublin, 1909. 8vo, pp. xii+ 64. By Alfred Nutt.

Voluspa: done into English out of the Icelandic of the Elder Edda. By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Nutt, 1909. 8vo, pp. 29. By Albany F. Major.

The Zonal-Belt Hypothesis. A New Explanation of the Cause of the Ice Ages. By Joseph T. Wheeler. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1908. 8vo, pp. 401. By M. Gaster.

The Primary Causes of Social Inequality. By Gunnar Landtman, Ph.D. Helsingfors, Finland, 1909. 8vo, pp. 159. By W. Crooke.

Maltesische Volkslieder im Urtext mit Deutscher Übersetzung. Von B. Ilg und H. Stumme. Leipzig, 1909. Pp. 77. By Hans H. Spoer.

Hausa Stories and Riddles, with Notes on the Language etc., and a concise Hausa dictionary. By Hermann G. Harris, B.A. Weston-super-Mare: Mendip Press, 1908. 8vo, pp. xv + iii + 33. By G. Merrick.

The People of the Polar North. A Record by Knud Rasmussen. Compiled from the Danish originals and edited by G. Herring. Kegan Paul, 1908. Royal 8vo, pp. xvii+ 358. Map and 150 ill. By A. R. Wright.

Semitic Magic. Its Origins and Development. By R. Campbell thompson, M.A. Luzac &; Co., 1908. 8vo, pp. lxviii + 386. By M. Gaster.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society. VII, Part I.—Article on Japanese Household Magic. By W. L. Hildburgh, M.A., Ph.D. Kegan Paul, 1908. By A. C. Haddon.     

Correspondence

THE MYTH OF THE PENT CUCKOO. By JOHN EDWARD FIELD, M.A. Pp. vii+212. London: Elliot Stock. 1913. Reviewed by S. A. H. Burne.

RUSTIC SPEECH AND FOLK-LORE. By ELIZABETH MARY WRIGHT. Oxford: University Press. 1913. Pp. xx + 342. Reviewed by C. S. Burne.

THE ENGLISH FOLK-DANCE SOCIETY'S JOURNAL.

SPORT AND FOLKLORE IN THE HIMALAYA. By CAPTAIN H. L. HAUGHTON. Demy 8vo. Pp.ix+332. 12s.6d.net. London: E. Arnold. 1913. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

PEMBA, THE SPICE ISLAND OF ZANZIBAR. By CAPTAIN J. E. E. CRASTER, Demy 8vo. Pp. 358. 12s. 6d. London : T. Fisher Unwin. 1913.

RELIGIOUS CHASTITY. An Ethnological Study. By JOHN MAIN. New York, 1913. 8vo, pp. xxii+ 365. (No price.) Reviewed by W. R. HALLIDAY.

DER TRAUMSCHLÜSSEL DES JAGADDEVA. Ein Beitrag zur indischen Mantik. Von JULIUS VON NEGELEIN. [Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, xi. Band, 4 Heft]. Pp. xxiv + 428. 17 m. Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann. 1912. 8vo. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

DIE LEBENSALTER Ein Beitrag zur Antiken Ethnologie und zur Geschichte der Zahlen. Mit einem Anhang über die Schrift von der Siebenzahl. Von FRANZ BOLL. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1913. 8vo, pp. iv + 58. Two pl. 2 m. 40 pf. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

DIE VERLOBUNG IM VOLKS- UND RECHTSBRAUCH, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Schweiz vergleichend-historisch dargestellt. Von HANNS BÄCHTOLD. Basel: Verlag der Schweiz. Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, 1913. 8vo, pp. 219. Reviewed by W. R. HALLIDAY.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL REPORT ON THE IBO-SPEAKING PEOPLES OF NIGERIA: Part I., Law and Custom of the Ibo of the Awka Neighbourhood, S. Nigeria; Part II., English-Ibo and Ibo-English Dictionary; Part III., Proverbs, Narratives, Vocabularies and Grammar. By NORTHCOTE W. THOMAS. Demy 8vo. Pp. 161,391,199. London: Harrison &; Sons. 1913. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

PSYCHE'S TASK : A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE INFLUENCE OF SUPERSTITION ON THE GROWTH OF INSTITUTIONS. By J. G. FRAZER. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. Pp. viii+186. London : Macrnillan &; Co. 1913. Price 5s. net. Reviewed by W. Crooke.     

A Precious Medicine: Tradition and Magic in Some Seventeenth-Century Household Remedies

The White Book Mabinogion: Welsh Tales and Romances reproduced from the Peniarth MSS. Edited By J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Pwllheli (Subscribers Only). 1909. By Alfred Nutt.

The Hooden Horse. By Percy Maylam. Canterbury: Privately Printed, 1909. 4to., pp. xvi +124. 5 Plates. By Charlotte S. Burne.

Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany. By Mary Lovett Cameron. Methuen, 1909. 8vo, pp. xxii + 332. 32 ill.

High Albania. By M. Edith Durham. Edward Arnold, 1909. Demy 8vo, pp. xii+ 352. ill. and Map. By W. H. D. Rouse.

With a Prehistoric People. The Akikûyu of British East Africa. Being some Account of the Method of Life and Mode of Thought found existent amongst a Nation on its first Contact with European Civilisation. By W. Scoresby Routledge And Katherine Routledge (born Pease). Edward Arnold, 1910. Ryl. 8vo, pp. xxxii + 392. Map and cxxxvi ill. By A. Werner.

Volkskundliches aus Togo. Märchen und Fabeln, Sprichwörter und Rätsel, Lieder und Spiele, Sagen und Tauschungspiele der Ewe-Neger von Togo. Gesammelt von Josef Schönhärl. Leipzig: Kochs, 1909. 8vo, pp. x + 204.

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria West Africa. By Elphinstone Dayrell. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green, &; Co., 1910. 8vo, pp. xvi + 159. Frontispiece. By A. R. Wright.

The Garos. By Major A. Playfair. Introduction by Sir J. Bampfylde Fuller. (Published under the orders of the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam.) Nutt, 1909. 8vo, pp. xvi + 172. Illustrations and maps. By W. Crooke.     

Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale as Anti-Märchen

The Threshold of Religion. By R. R. Ma rett. Methuen, 1909. Cr. 8vo, Pp. 194. By F. B. Jevons.

Psyche's Task, a Discourse concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions. By Professor J. G. Frazer, LL.D., Litt.D. Macmillan, 1909. 8vo, Pp. viii + 84. By W. Crooke.

Gaelic Fairy Tales. Edited By Winifred M. Parks. Glasgow: Sinclair, 1908. 8vo, pp. 48. Illus. By Eleanor Hull.

A Biblioographv of Congo Languages. By Frederick Starr. University of Chicago Press, 1908. 4to, pp. 97. By A. E. Scrivener.

Mittellungen aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten : Ergänzungsheft No. I. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse meiner ethnographischen Forschungsreise in den Südosten Deutsch -Ostafrikas. Von Dr. Karl Weule. Berlin : Mittler, 1908. Pp. x + 150. 63 plates and map. By N. W. Thomas.

The Nandi : their Language and Folklore. By A. C. Hollis. With Introduction By Sir Charles Eliot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 8vo, pp. xl + 328. By A. Werner.

Folk -Tales of Hindustan. By Shaikh Chilli. Allahabad: Indian Press, 1908. By M. Longworth Dames.

Ancient Tales and Folk - Lore of Japan. By Richard Gordon Smith. A. &; C. Black, 1908, 410, pp. xv + 361. 62 col. illus. By A. R. Wright.

The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom. By Basil Thomson. Heinemann, 1908. 8vo, pp. xx + 396. By W. H. R. Rivers.

The Origin of Terms of Human Relationship. By A. Lang. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iii. Froude, 1909. pp. 20. By W. Crooke.     

BOOK REVIEWS

TRISTAN AND ISOLT. A Study of the Sources of the Romance. By GERTRUDE SCHOEPPERLE. (New York University. Ottendorfer Memorial Series of Germanic Monographs, No. 3.) 2 vols. Frankfurt-a.-Main: J. Baer &; Co., 1913. 8vo., pp. 590. No p. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

LE ROMAN IDYLLIQUE AU MOYEN ÂGE. By MYRRHA LOTBORODINE. Paris: Auguste Picard, 1914. 8vo, pp. 271. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

MUTTER ERDE. Ein Versuch über Volksreligion. Von ALBRECHT DIETERICH. Zweite Auflage. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1913. Pp. vi + 138. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

HERBALS. Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470–1670. By AGNES ARBER. Cambridge : Univ. Press, 1912. 8vo. pp. xviii + 253. Ill. 10s. 6d. n. Reviewed by D. H. Moutray Read.

UNSERE PFLANZEN. Ihre Namenerklarung und ihre Stellung in der Mythologie und in Volksaberglauben. By FRANZ SOHNS. 5te Auflage. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1912. Sm. 8vo, pp. viii + 212. 3 m. Reviewed by D. H. Moutray Read.

WANDERINGS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. By ETHEL C. HARGROVE. Andrew Melrose, 1913. 8vo, pp. x + 312. 6s. n. Reviewed by D. H. Moutray Read.

KULLERVO-HAMLET. EINSAGENVERGLEICHENDER VERSUCH. Von E. N. SETÄLÄ. Reprinted from Finnish-Ugrischen Forschungen, vols, iii., vii., x. Helsingfors: 8vo, pp. vi + 197. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

SAGEN UND MÄRCHEN AUS DEM OBERWALLIS. AUS dem Volksmunde gesammelt von J. JEGERLEHNER. Basel: Verlag der Schweiz. Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, 1913. 8vo, pp. xii + 348. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

DER HELD IM DEUTSCHEN UND RUSSISCHEN MÄRCHEN. By AUGUST VON LÖWIS OF MENAR. Jena; Eugen Diederichs, 1912. 8vo, pp. 139. 3 m. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

PIEDMONT. By ESTELLA CANZIANI and ELEANOUR ROHDE. With 50 repro. of pictures and many line drawings by Estella Canziani. Chatto &; Windus, 1913. 4to, pp. viii + 204. 21s. n. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

Weather Folk-Lore of the Sea

L'ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE, publiée sous la direction de EMILE DURKHEIM, Professeur de Sociologie à l'Université de Bordeaux. Huitième Année (1903–1904). Paris: Félix Alcan. 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CXTLTES, MYTHES, ET RELIGIONS. Par SAL. REINACH, Membre de l'Institut Vol. I. Paris: E. Leroux 1905. Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

DES DIVINITÉS GÉNÉRATRICES, OU DU CULTE DU PHALLUS CHEZ LES ANCIENS ET LES MODERN ES. BY J. A. DULAURE. Paris: Societé du Mercure de France, 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CRYSTAL-GAZING : ITS HISTORY AND PRACTICE, WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR TELEPATHIC SCRYING. With an Introduction by ANDREW LANG, M.A., LL.D. By NORTHCOTE W. THOMAS, M.A. Alexander Moring Limited. 1905. Reviewed by Edward Clodd.

VOTIVE WEIHEGABEN DES KATHOLISCHEN VOLKS IN SÜDDEUTSCHLAND. ElN BEITRAG ZUR VOLKSKUNDE. Von RICHARD ANDRES. Mit 38 Abbildungen im Text, 140 Abbildungen auf 32 Tafeln, und 2 Farbendrucktafeln. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn. 1904. 12 marks paper, 13.50 cloth.

DIE MYTHEN UND LEGENDÉN DER SÜDAMERIKANISCHEN URVÖLKER UND IHRE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DENEN NORDAMERIKAS UND DER ALTEN WELT. Von DR. PAUL EHRENREICH. Berlin: A. Asher &; Co., 1905. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE FAROES AND ICELAND: STUDIES IN ISLAND LIFE. By NELSON ANNANDALE. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. Reviewed by Edward Brabrook.

THE SHADE OF THE BALKANS, being a collection of Bulgarian Folk-songs and Proverbs, here for the first time rendered into English, together with an essay on Bulgarian Popular Poetry, and another on the Origin of the Bulgar. Nutt 1904. 7s. 6d. net.

CONTINENTAL FOLK-LORE SOCIETIES. Volkskundliche Zeitschriftenschau für 1903, herausgegeben im Auftrage der hessischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde. Von Adolf Strack. Leipzig, 1905. 8vo. Pp. 281. Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde. Von Adolf Strack. Bd. IV., Heft I., Leipzig, 1905. 8vo. Pp. 96. Mitteilungen des Verbandes deutscher Vertine für Volkskunde, 1 and 2, Januar und Juli, 1905. Sehweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, IX. 3. Zürich, 1905. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, XXXIV., 6 ; XXXV, 1. Sagenschatt der Stadt Weimar. Von Ellen und Paul Mitxschke. Weimar, 1904, 8vo. Pp. xviii., 152. Price 2 M. 40 pf. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.

WEST AFRICA BEFORE EUROPE, AND OTHER ADDRESSES. By E. W. BLTDKN, LL.D. London: C. M. Phillips, 1905. 8vo. Pp. iv, 158. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.     

Harvest Rites in Ireland

LES FONCTIONS MENTALES DANS LES SOCIÉTÉS INFÉRIEURES. Par L. LÉVY-BRUHL. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1910. 8vo, pp. 461. Reviewed by E. A. Hooton.

THE FOLK-LORE OF HEREFORDSHIRE. Collected from Oral and Printed Sources. By ELLA MARY LEATHER. Intro, by EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND. Sidgwick &; Jackson, 1912. Large 8vo, pp. xxviii + 288. Ill. Reviewed by Charlotte S. Burne.

JOURNAL OF THE FOLK-SONG SOCIETY. NO. 16 (Vol. IV., Part iii., December 1911). A Collection of one hundred and five Songs of Occupation from the Western Isles of Scotland. Compiled by Miss FRANCES TOLMIE. 19 Berners Street, W., 1911. 4to, xiv, 143–278 + ix. Reviewed by K. W. Grant.

LA RELIGIONE PRIMITIVA IN SARDEGNA. By RAFFAELE PETTAZZONI. Piacenza: Societá Editrice Pontremolese, 1912. 8vo, pp. xxiii + 253. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.

LA CHANSON POPULAIRE DE L'ILE DE CORSE. Par AUSTIN DE CROZE. Avec conclusion de M. PAUL FONTANA. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 1911. 16mo, pp. xv + 188. Reviewed by A. M. Spoer.

LE LÉGENDAIRE DU MONT SAINT-MICHEL. Par ÉTIENNE DUPONT. Paris: Robert Duval, 1911. Sm. 8vo, pp. xlvii + 173.

THEMIS. A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. By JANE ELLEN HARRISON. With an Excursus on the Ritual Forms preserved in Greek Tragedy by Prof. GILBERT MURRAY, and a Chapter on the Origin of the Olympic Games by Mr. F. M. CORNFORD. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1912. 8vo, pp. xxxii + 559. Ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

LA SOCIÉTÉ MUSULMANE DU MAGHRIB. MAGIE ET RELIGION DANS L'AFRIQUE DU NORD. Par EDMOND DOUTTÉ. Alger: Typographie Adolphe Jourdan, 1909. 8vo, pp. vi + 617. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE SUK : THEIR LANGUAGE AND FOLKLORE. By MERVYN W. H. BEECH. With Intro, by Sir Charles Eliot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. 8vo, pp. xxiv + 152. Maps and ill. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

THE LAND OF UZ. By ABDULLAH MANSÛR (G. Wyman Bury). Macmillan, 1911. 8vo, pp. xxvii + 354. Ill. Reviewed by Hans H. Spoer.

MATERINSKAYA FILIACIYA v VOSTOCHNOY 1 CENTRALNOY AZII. [Mother-right in Eastern and Central Asia]. V?p. 1. Materinskaya Filiaciya u Kitaycev, Koreycev i Yaponcev [Mother-right in China, Korea, and Japan]. V?p. 2. Materinskaya Filiaciya u Tibetcev, Mongolov, Myaocz?, Lolo i Tai [Mother-right among the Tibetans, Mongols, Miaotzu, Lolos, and Tai]. By NICHOLAS MATSOKIN. Vladivostock, 1910–11. 8vo, pp. 40, iv + 147. Reviewed by M. Trophimoff.     

Notes and Comments

A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF RELIGION. Its Origin, Function, and Future. By JAMES H. LEUBA. New York : Macmillan Co., 1912. Sm. 8vo, pp. xiv + 371. 2S n. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

GEBURT, HOCHZEIT UND TOD. Beitrage zur vergleichenden Volkskunde von ERNST SAMTER. Leipzig: Teubner, 1911. 8vo, pp. vi + 222. 7 Ab. im Text + 3 Tafeln. 6 m. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

RELIGIONS M?URS ET LÉGENDES: ESSAIS D'ETHNOGRAPHIE ET DE LINGUISTIQUE. By ARNOLD VAN GENNEP. Deuxième Série, 1909; Quatrième Série, [1912]. Paris: Mercure de France. 3 f. 50. per vol. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CHURCH AND MANOR. A Study in English Economic History. By S. O. ADDY. George Allen &; Co., 1913. Demy 8vo, pp. xxx+ 473. Ill. 10s. 6d. n. Reviewed by S. A. H. Burne.

CHANTS POPULAIRES DE LA GRANDE-LANDE ET DES REGIONS VOISINES. Recueillis par FÉLIX ARNAUDIN. Musique, texte patois et traduction française. Tome I. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1912. Pp. lxxxvi + 512. 8 fr. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

ALBRECHT DIETERICH. KLEINE SCHRIFTEN. Herausgegeben von RICHARD WUNSCH. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1911. 8vo, pp. xlii + 546. Mit einem Bildnis und 2 Tafeln. Ill. 12 m. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

NATURSAGEN. Eine Sammlung Naturdeutender Sagen Märchen Fabeln und Legenden. Herausgegeben von Oskar Dähnhardt. Band IV. TIERSAGEN, Zweiter Teil. Bearbeitet von O. DÄHNHARDT und A. VON LÖWIS OF MENAR. Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1912. Large 8vo, pp. ix + 322. 8 m. Reviewed by W. R. Halliday.

THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE. By HENRI A. JUNOD. Vol. ii. THE PSYCHIC LIFE. Neuchatel: Attinger Frères, 1913. [Macmillan.] 8vo, pp. 574. Ill. 15s. n. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE COCHIN TRIBES AND CASTES. Vol. ii. By L. K. ANANTHA KRISHNA IYER. Madras: Higginbotham &; Co., 1912. 8vo, pp. xxiii + 504. Ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE LUSHEI KUKI CLANS. By Lt.-Col. J. SHAKESPEAR. Macmillan and Co., 1912. 8vo, pp. 235. Map + 4 col. pl. + 19 ill. 10s. n. Reviewed by T. C. Hodson.

THE BOOK OK PROTECTION : being a Collection of Charms now edited for the first time from Syriac MSS. With Translation, Introduction, and Notes by HERMANN GOLLANCZ, M.A., D.Litt. Oxford Univ. Press, 1912, 8vo, pp. lxxxvii + vii + 103, 27 ill. 10s. 6d. n. Reviewed by M. Gaster.     

The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980

The Secret of the Totem. By Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green &; Co. London, 1905. 10/6 Net. By F. B. Jevons.

The Origin of Worship : A Study in Primitive Religion. By Rafael Karsten. An Academical Dissertation. Wasa: F. W. Unggren. 1905. viii., 143 pp. By R. R Marett. Bantu Folk Lore. By Matthew L. Hewat, M.D. Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller. By Bertram C. A. Windle.

The Czech Ethnographical Review, vol. xi. Published by the Society of the Cech Ethnographical Museum. Prague, 1905. By Francis P. Marchant.

Der Sagenkreis vom Geprellten Teufel. Von Aug. Wünsche. Leipzig Und Wien, Akademischer Verlag, 1905. By E. Sidney Hartland.

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, herausgegeben von Albert Dieterich und Richard Wünsch. Gieszen: J. Ricker. I. Attis: seine Mythen und seine Kult, von Hugo Hepding. (1903.) M. 5. II. 2: De Mortuorum Iudicio, scripsit Ludovicu0s Ruhl. (1903.) M. 1.80. II. 3: De Poetarum Romanarum doctrina magica quaestdones selectae, scripsit Ludovicus Fahz. (1904.) M. 1.60.

The Little Black Princess : A True Tale of Life in the Never-Never Land. By Jeannie Gunn. Alexander Moring, Ltd.

Animism: The Seed of Religion. By Edward Clodd, London: A. Constable &; Co. 1905. By R. R. Marett.

Anthropos: International Zeitschrift für Völker- U. Sprachenkunde. Edited By P. W. Schmidt. Band I, Heft 1, 2. Salzburg: Zaunrith'sche Buch- Kunst- Und Steindruckerei. 15 kr. p. a. By Charlotte S. Burne.     

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.     

REVIEWS

LE Poème et la Légende des - Nibelungen. By H. Lichtenberger. 8vo. 432 pp. Paris : Hachette. By Alfred Nutt.

Canti Popolari Siciliani, raccolti ed illustrati di Giuseppe Pitrè. Preceduti da uno studio critico a seguiti da melodie popolari. Nuova edizione, interamenta rifusa. Carlo Clausen, Torino and Palmero, 1891. 2 Vols. 8vo.

Bibliografia delle Tradizioni popolari d'Italia. Compilata da Giuseppe Pitrè. Scherie internazionali. Same Publishers. 1 vol. crown 8vo., 700 pp., on hand-made paper. By R. H. Busk.     

The Amundsen expedition to the magnetic pole

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Behind God's Back. By N. Farson. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 448. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1940. Price 10s. 6d.

EUROPE

The Place‐Names of Nottinghamshire. By J. E. B. Gover, Allen Mawer, and F. M. Stenton. Demy 8vo. Pp. xlii+348. London : Cambridge University Press Ltd., 1940. Price 21s.

Prehistoric England. By Grahame Clarke. Illustrated. Pp. viii+120. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1940. Price 8s. 6d.

Lincolnshire in the 17th and 18th Centuries. By Charles Brears. Demy 8vo. Pp. xv+192. London : A. Brown and Sons Ltd., 1940. Price 7s. 6d.

AMERICA

The American Empire. A Study of the Outlying Territories of the United States. Edited by William H. Hass. Illustrated. Pp. xi+408. University of Chicago Press, 1940. (Published in Great Britain by the Cambridge University Press Ltd.) Price 24s.

I Lived with the Eskimos. By S. Montague. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. ix+223. London : Jarrolds Ltd., 1940. Price 12s. 6d.

Arctic Pilot. By Walter Gilbert, as told to Kathleen Shackleton. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 256. London : T. Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1940. Price 7s. 6d.

ASIA

Old Routes of Western Iran. By Sir Aurel Stein. Illustrated. Imperial 8vo. Pp. xxviii+432. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 42s.

The New Burma. By W. J. Grant. Crown 8vo. Pp. 156. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1940. Price 7s. 6d.

AUSTRALASIA

Australia. By Griffith Taylor. Demy 8vo. Pp. xv+455. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 21s.

GENERAL

The Story of the Pacific. By H. van Loon. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp.315. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 8s. 6d.

Coconut Quest. By J. S. Phillips. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 254. London : Jarrolds Ltd., 1940. Price 16s.

Ten Great Mountains. By R. L. G. Irvine. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. xii+213. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1940. Price 12s. 6d.

Helvellyn to Himalaya. By F. S. Chapman. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. xv+285. London : Chatto and Windus, 1940. Price 18s.

A Long Look Back. By Two Victorians. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 256. London : Seeley Service Ltd., 1940. Price 12s. 6d.

I Married Adventure. By Osa Johnson. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 376. London: Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 10s. 6d.

Rolling Home. By Surgeon‐Commander A. G. Bee. Demy 8vo. Pp. xi+495. London: Bale, 1940.

Savoy ! Corsica ! Tunis ! By Bernard Newman. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 282. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1940. Price 10s. 6d.

Courtship and Display among Birds. By C. D. Stonor. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp.xv+139. London: Country Life Ltd., 1940. Price 8s. 6d.

Old Morningside. By Wm. Mair. Illustrated. Pp. 40. Edinburgh : John Menzies and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 1s.

English Lakeland. By Doreen Wallace. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. viii+120. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1940. Price 8s. 6d.

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Middlesex. By Arthur Mee. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. ix+232. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1940. Price 7s. 6d.

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Map Approach to Modern Problems, tgig‐iggg. By W. E. Coysh and A. W. Brown. Small quarto. Pp. 64. London : University Tutorial Press, 1940. Price 2s. 3d.

Elements of Political Geography. By S. van Valkenburgh. With Maps. Imperial 8vo. Pp. xix+401. London: Pitmans Ltd., 1940. Price 18s.

Economic Geography. By C. Colby and A. Foster. Illustrated. Imperial 8vo. Boston (U.S.A.) : Ginn and Co., 1940. Price 10s. 6d.

Synopsis of the Mineral Resources of Scotland. By M. Macgregor and Others. Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol. xxxiii, 59 pages. One Text Figure. H.M. Stationery Office. Price 1s.

A Map Book of Africa and South America. By A. Ferriday. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 1s. 9d.

Outlines of Structural Geology. By E. S. Hills. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Pp. x+172. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1940. Price 6s. 6d.

Asia and Australia. By A. Mamour. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 348. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1940.

The World and Ourselves. By E. White. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. Pp. 207. Edinburgh: W. and A. K. Johnston Ltd., 1940. Price 2s. 9d.     

Algerian Folktales,II

THE GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE CELTS. By HENRI HUBERT. London. Kegan Paul, 1934.

ARCHÆOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN POETRY : Psychological Studies of Imagination. By MAUD BODKIN. Oxford University Press. 1934. xiv, 340 pp. Reviewed by S. H. Hooke.

HANS SCHERB : DAS MOTIV VOM STARKEN KNABEN. Stuttgart, 1930. W. Kohlhammer. VIII, pp. 135. 8vo. 9½″ x 6½″. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

FAR-OFF THINGS. BY R. L. SPITTEL. The Colombo Apothecaries Co. 1933. pp.331. 8¾″ x 5½″. 12s. 6d. Reviewed by E. H. Hunt.

A HISTORY OF EMBRYOLOGY. By JOSEPH NEEDHAM, Sc.D. Pp. xviii + 274; PI. XVI; figs. 40. 1934. Camb. University Press, Price 15s. net. Reviewed by A. J. E. Cave.

VOLKSKUNPLICHE GABEN. John Meier zum siebzigsten Geburtstage dargebracht. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. 1934. 11″ x 8″. Pp.316. N.p. Reviewed by H. Coote Lake.

SPUR-OF-THE-COCK. Publication of the Texas Folk-Lore Society. XI. 1933. Austin. Texas. $2.50. 9?x 6. Pp.113 Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

CREATION AND EVOLUTION IN PRIMITIVE COSMOGONIES, AND OTHER PIECES. By SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER. 8VO. 8½ x 5½ in. London: Macmillan &; Co. Ltd., 1935. 8s. 6d. net. Reviewed by Warren R. Dawson.

ARTS OF WE S T AFRICA (excluding Music). Edited by SIR MICHAEL SADLER, with an Introduction by SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN. Oxford University Press, 1935. Pp. xi + 101. 10″ x 8″. Plates 32, bibliography. 5s. Reviewed by Trevor Thomas.     

Fairies,Fractious Women,and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture

TABOU ET TOTÉMISME À MADAGASCAR: ÉTUDE DESCRIPTIVE ET THÉORIQUE. Par ARNOLD VAN GENNEP. Paris: E. Leroux, 1904. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE MASAI, THEIR LANGUAGE AND FOLK-LORE. By A. C. HOLLIS, with Introduction by Sir Charles Eliot Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1905, 8vo Pp. xxxii + 364. Price 14s. net. Reviewed by N. W. Thomas.

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. Edited from the Collection of Francis James Child by HELEN CHILD SARGENT and GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE. London: D. Nutt 1905. Reviewed by A. Lang.     

Annotated Bibliography: Children's Folklore Review

The Fisher King in the Grail. Romances. By W. A. Nitze. (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, xxiv. 3.) By Alfred Nutt.

Folklore and Folk-Stories of Walks. By Marie Trevelyan. With an Introduction by E. Sidney Hartland. Elliot Stock, 1909. Fcap. 4to, pp. xiv+350. By Charlotte S. Burne.

Native Life in East Africa. The Results of an Ethnological Research Expedition. By Dr. Karl Weule. Trans, by Alice Werner. Sir Isaac Pitman &; Sons, 1909. Ryl. 8vo. pp. xxiv +431. Maps and Ill. By E. Sidney Hartland.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas. Trans, by Cecil Henry Bompas, Indian Civil Service. Nutt, 1909. 8vo, pp. 483. By W. Crooke.

Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois. By Harriet Maxwell Converse. Edited and annotated by A. C. Parker. Education Department Bulletin, No. 437. Albany, N.Y., 1908. (New York State Museum Bulletin, 125.) 8vo, pp. 195. By A. C. Haddon.