The Folk

FOLKLORIST OF THE COAL FIELDS: GEORGE KORSON'S LIFE AND WORK. By ANGUS K. GILLESPIE. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London, 1980. Pp. 200. £10.20. 271 00255 7. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

THE CRAFT OF RALPH ELLISON. By ROBERT F. O'MEALLY. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1980. Pp. 212. £8.40. 0 674 17548 4. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

ROSC: REVIEW OF SCOTTISH CULTURE 1 (1984), Edited by ALEXANDER FENTON with HUGH CHEAPE and ROSALIND K. MARSHALL. John Donald Publishers Ltd. and National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh, vii + 104 pp. Illustrated, £5.00. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

RESEARCH IN RITUAL STUDIES: A PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. By RONALD L. GRIMES. The American Theological Library Association and Scarecrow Press. Metuchen N.J., and London, 1985. 177pp. $15. 0 8108 1762 4. (ATLA Bibliography Series No. 14). Reviewed by Susan Drury.

KINTYRE: THE HIDDEN PAST. By ANGUS MARTIN. John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1984. xii + 232 pp., illus. £12.00 p.b. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE, 1879 to 1979. An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by WILLIAM M. CLEMENTS and FRANCES M. PALPEZZI. Swallow Press (Ohio University Press), Athens Ohio, London, Chicago, 1984. 247pp. 0-8040-0831-6672. £29.65. Reviewed by Robert Turpin.

ENZYKLOPÄDIE DES MÄRCHENS. Editor K. RANKE. Volume ii Fascicle 5. Berlin, New York (Walter de Gruyter), 1979. Cols. 1186-1444. Volume iii. 1981. 1446 Cols. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

In Memoriam: Lord Avebury (1834–1913).

THE FOLKLORE OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. By MARJORIE ROWLING. B. T. Batsford, 1976. £3.95. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

JÁNOS HONTI: LEBEN UND WERK. By T. DÖMÖTÖR. Helsinki (FFC vol. xciv No. 221) 1978. Pp. 84, 1 photograph. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

VOLKSKUNDE: EINE EINFUHRUNG. By G. WIEGELMANN, M. ZENDER, and G. HEILFURTH. Grundlagen der Germanistik vol. 12. Berlin (Erich Schmidt Verlag) 1977. Pp. 265.11 text illustrations. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

SWEDISH LEGENDS AND FOLKTALES. By JOHN LINDOW. University of California Press (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London), 1978.219 pp. £7.75 ($10.95). Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

CHAPBOOKS AND TRADITIONAL DRAMA: PART I, ALEXANDER AND THE KING OF EGYPT CHAPBOOKS. By M. J. PRESTON, M. G. SMITH, and P. S. SMITH, CECTAL Bibliography and Special Series no. 2. University of Sheffield, 1977. 38 pp., illus. £1. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN MUSIC AND ORAL DATA: A CATALOGUE OF SOUND RECORDINGS, 1893–1976. By DOROTHY SARA LEE. Bloomington &; London: Indiana University Press, 1979. 2 Figs; Index to Culture Groups, Cross-References to Culture Groups, Index, pp. xiv + 463. No price. Reviewed by Paul S. Smith.

CRACKLIN BREAD AND ASFIDITY: FOLK RECIPES AND REMEDIES. Compiled by JACK and OLIVIA SOLOMAN. Alabama: University of Alabama, 1979. Illus.; notes; bibliography; list of contributors; pp. 215. No price. Reviewed by Georgina Smith.

THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS' COOKBOOK. By JESSICA KUPER (editor). London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1977. Illus.; pp. ix + 230. £4.75. Reviewed by Georgina Smith.

THE WITCH ON THE WALL: MEDIEVAL EROTIC SCULPTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES. By JORGEN ANDERSEN. Copenhagen &; London (George Allen &; Unwin) 1977. Pp. 172, figs. 147, 4 distribution maps. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

ENGLISCHE UND WALISISCHE SAGEN. Edited and translated by C. AGRICOLA. Europäische Sagen vol. 8. Berlin (Erich Schmidt Verlag) 1976. Pp. 507. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

MÄRCHEN DER NIEDERLANDE. Edited and translated by A. M. A. COX-LEICK &; H. L. Cox. 1977. Pp. 271.—MÄRCHEN AUS DEM KAUKASUS. Edited by I. LEVIN and translated by G. SCHENKOWITZ. 1978. Pp. 316.—MÄRCHEN AUS DEM LIBANON. Edited and translated by U. and Y. ASSAF. 1978. Pp. 264. Düsseldorf, Eugen Diedrichs Verlag. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Folk-Lore Notes and Museum Notes

TALES OF A DARTMOOR VILLAGE. Some Preliminary Notes on the Folklore of Postbridge. By THEO BROWN. Reprinted from Volume XCIII (1961) of The Transactions of the Devonshire Association. Pp. 1–34, with eight plates (photographs). Reviewed by W. F. Jackson Knight.

GHOST AND GHOUL. By T. C. LETHBRIDGE. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1961. Pp. 156, 26 text illustrations by the author. 18s. net. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

FOLK, This is our music. English Folk Dance and Song Society's Publications. No 1. 3s. 6d. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

CATALOGUE OF THE ROMANY COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1962. Pp. xiv + 227. Price 21s. Reviewed by A. M. Fraser.

ZEN IN JAPANESE ART … A WAY OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. By TOSHIMITSU HASUMI. Translated from the German. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul. Pp. 113. 15s. Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

KANSAS FOLKLORE. Edited by S. J. SACKETT and WILLIAM E. KOCH. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1961. Pp. 251. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

CROW WORD LISTS: CROW-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CROW VOCABULARIES. By ROBERT H. LOWIE. University of California 1960. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

SCHWEDISCHE VOLKSKUNDE. QUELLEN, FORSCHUNG, ERGEBNISSE. Festschrift fur Sigfrid Svensson zum 60. Geburtstag. Stockholm, Almqvist &; Wiksell, 1961. Pp. 511, 41 photographs, maps and diagrams. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

VOLKSMÄRCHEN UND VOLKSSAGE. By MAX LÜTHI. Bern &; Munich, Francke Verlag, 1961. Pp. 203. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

TYPEN- UND MOTIFVERZEICHNIS DER FINNISCHEN MYTHISCHEN SAGEN. By LAURI SIMONSUURI. FF Communications No. 182. Helsinki, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1961. Pp. 156. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

KINDERKLEIDUNG UND GRUPPENGEISTIGKEIT IN VOLKSKUNDLICHER SICHT. By W. HÄVERNICK. Beiträge zur deutschen Volks-und Altertumskunde, No. 6 Hamburg, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1962. Pp. 21–64, 15 photographs. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE PLACE-NAMES OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. By A. H. SMITH. Part 7. English Place-Name Society, Vol. 36. Cambridge University Press, 1962. Pp. 355. Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

ES WAR EINMAL … VOM WESEN DES VOLKSMÄRCHENS. By MAX LÜTHI. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, 1962. Pp. 128. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF REGIONAL ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. Vol. I, ‘General Ethnological Concepts’. By AKE HULTKRANTZ. Copenhagen, Rosenkilde and Bagger. Price about 50s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

A SELECTION OF ENGLISH CAROLS. By R. L. GREEN. Clarendon Press, 1962. Pp. 269. Reviewed by A. C. Percival.

LOKI IN SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. By ANNA BIRGITTA ROOTH. Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet I Lund, LXI. Lund, 1961. Pp. 248. Price, Kr. 30. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.     

Book Reviews

FOLK TALES FROM KOREA, COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY Z?NG IN-S?B. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1952. Pp. xxviii, 257, with a Map. Price 21s. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

FOLK TALES FROM ROUMANIA ; translated from the Roumanian of Ion Creangǎ, by MABEL NANDRI?. Pp. 170. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952. Price 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

BLOODSTOPPERS AND BEARWALKERS : Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula. By RICHARD M. DORSON. 9 + 305 pages, 4 plates. Harvard University Press. $5.50. Reviewed by Edward M. Wilson.

THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD. By AMOS TUTUOLA. Pp. 125. Faber &; Faber, 1952. Price 10s. 6d. Reviewed by Mary Danielli.

AFRICAN FOLK TALES AND SCULPTURE. Folk Tales selected and edited by PAUL RADIN in collaboration with Elinore Marvel, with an introduction by Paul Radin. Sculpture selected, with an introduction, by James Johnson Sweeney. Bollingen Series, XXXII. Pantheon Books, 1952. Pp. xxi–355, 165 Plates. Reviewed by Mary Danielli.     

IN MEMORIAM. Donald Archie MacDonald, 1929–1999

ENZYKLOPÄDIE DES MÄRCHENS. Edited by K. RANKE. Vol. 2, issues 1–4. Berlin (Walter de Gruyter) 1977. 1152 cols. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE DAEMON IN THE WOOD: A STUDY OF ORAL NARRATIVE PATTERNS. By DAVID E. BYNUM, with a foreword by Albert B.Lord. The Center for the Study of Oral Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1978. Pp.454; 68 Figs, in the text. Reviewed by H.R.Ellis Davidson.

HOLY THORN OF GLASTONBURY. (West Country Folklore No. 12). By A.R.VICKERY. The Toucan Press, Mount Durand, St.Peter Port, Guernsey, 1979. Pp.14, 2 Figs. 30p. Reviewed by H.R.Ellis Davidson.

TRISTAN EN EL NORTE. By ÁLFRÚN GUNNLAUGSDÓTTIR. Reykjavik: Stofnun Árna Magnüssonar. 1978. 366 pp. Reviewed by Alan Deyermond.

DRAGONS. By PETER HOGARTH with VAL CLERY. Allen Lane and the Viking Press, London and New York, 1979. £7.95. Pp.207, many ills. THE DRAGON; NATURE OF SPIRIT, SPIRIT OF NATURE. By FRANCIS HUXLEY. Thames and Hudson, London, 1979. £2.95. Paperback, pp.96, many ills. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

THE FOOL AND THE TRICKSTER: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF ENID WELSFORD. Ed. by PAUL V.A.WILLIAMS. D.S.Brewer, 1979. £8.50. Pp.142, ill. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

ABBEY LUBBERS, BANSHEES AND BOGGARTS. BY KATHARINE BRIGGS. Kestrel Books (Penguin Books Ltd), 1979. £5.95. Pp.159, ill. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.     

The Modern Commercial Aspect of an Ancient Superstition

GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. The story of the Tuatha De danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by LADY GREGORY, with a Preface by W. B. YEATS and a Foreword by DANIEL MURPHY. Gerards Cross (Colin Smythe) 1970. Pp. 367, 1 plate. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

LEOPOLD SCHMIDT. HINTERGLAS, ZEUGNISSE EINER ALTEN HAUSKUNST. Salzburg (Residenz Verlag) 1972. Pp. 159. 48 coloured plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

VILMA MÖNCKEBERG. DAS MÄRCHEN UND UNSERE WELT. ERFAHRUNGEN UND EINSICHTEN. Düsseldorf (Eugen Diederichs Verlag) 1972. Pp. 235. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

NINE NORSE STUDIES. By G. TURVILLE-PETRE. London, 1972. Pp. 180. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

RAGNARQK: AN INVESTIGATION INTO OLD NORSE CONCEPTS OF THE FATE OF THE GODS. By JOHN STANLEY MARTIN. Assen, 1972. Pp. 151. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

GHOSTS AND LEGENDS. By ROY CHRISTIAN. David and Charles, 1972. Pp. 156. Illus. Price: £1.95. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

WITCHCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL. Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. 394. £7.15. Reviewed by Richard Cavendish.

VOLKSKUNDE FAKTEN UND ANALYSEN. Festgabe für Leopold Schmidt zum 60. Geburtstag. Ed. by K. BEITL. Vienna (Verein für Volkskunde) 1972. Pp. 524. Plates 77. Text illus. 39. Maps 10. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

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.     

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.     

Books received

FOLKLORE STUDIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENARY CONFERENCE OF THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY. Ed. VENETIA J. NEWALL. D. S. Brewer, 1980. Pp. 463, ill. £35.00. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

NINE LIVES: CATS IN FOLKLORE. By KATHARINE M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London and Henley, 1980. Pp. 222. ill. £7.95. Alicia C. Percival.

THE FOLKLORE OF STAFFORDSHIRE. By JON RAVEN. Batsford, London. 1978. Pp. 222. £4.95. Reviewed by Derek Froome.

A GUIDEBOOK TO ARTHURIAN BRITAIN. By GEOFFREY ASHE. Longman, 1980. £7.50. Reviewed by Richard Barber.

ÖSTERREICHS MÄRCHENSCHATZ by KARL HAIDING. Vienna 1980 (Kremayr &; Scheriau) 448 pp. ill. Reviewed by Ruth Michaelis-Jena.

PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND HEALING: A STUDY OF FOLK-MEDICINE IN NORTH EAST BRAZIL. By PAUL V. A. WILLIAMS. Brewer. Cambridge 1979. 212 pp. £12.00. Reviewed by Douglas Gifford.

ITALIAN FOLKTALES. Selected and retold by ITALO CALVINO. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. New York and London, 1980. Pp. 763. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

TOCHER: TALES, SONGS, TRADITIONS 33. School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, 1979. Pp. 71 £0.50. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

DER UNBEKANNTE BRUDER GRIMM. Edited by GERD HOFFMANN &; HEINZ RÖLLEKE. Düsseldorf (Verlag Eugen Diederichs) 1979. Pp. 144. 2 plates and 3 facsimiles. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DAS ALTE VOLKSSCHAUSPIEL DES BURGENLANDES. By LEOPOLD SCHMIDT. Theatergeschichte Österreichs vol. viii. Burgenland 1. Vienna (Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1980. Pp. 358. 6 maps, 15 plates (1 coloured). ZUNFTZEICHEN; ZEUGNISSE ALTER HANDWERKSKUNST. Salzburg (Residenz Verlag) 1973. Pp. 160, 54 plates (48coloured). Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

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.     

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.

FOLKLORE BALEAR. Bv ANDRÉS FERRER GINARD. Ed. Cort. 1965. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF REGIONAL EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. VOL. ii: Folk Literature (Germanic). By LAURITS BØDKER. Published by CIAP with the support of UNESCO. Copenhagen, Rosenkilde &; Bagger, 1965. Pp. 365. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

STRAW PATH. Data on the Spread and the Origin of the Mediterranean Name Type of Via Lactea. By LÁSZLÓ MÁNDOKI. Acta Ethno graphica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Tomus XIV, Fasciculi 1–2. Budapest, 1965. Pp. 21. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

MYTH. A Symposium. Edited by THOMAS A. SEBECK. Indiana University Press, 1965. Pp. 180. $2–45 (7s 6d). Reviewed by E. O. James.

SOMERSET FOLKLORE, By R. L. TONGUE, edited by K. M. BRIGGS. County Folklore, Vol. VIII. The Folk-lore Society, 1965. Pp. 243. 40s. Reviewed by Faith Sharp.

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.     

February 20th, 1907

A SINGER AND HER SONGS. ALMEIDA RIDDLE'S BOOK OF BALLADS. Edited by ROGER D. ABRAHAMS. Musical Editor, George Foss. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1970. Pp. 191. $8.50. Reviewed by Maud Karpeles.

THE STUDY OF GAMES. By E. AVEDON AND B. SUTTON-SMITH. Wiley (New York) 1971. Pp. 530. n.p. Reviewed by A. W. Smith.

FOLCLORUL. OBIECT, PRINCIPII, METOD?, CATEGORII. By GHEORGHE VRABIE. Editor: Roumanian Academy of Sciences. Bucharest, 1970. Pp. 327. Price: 32.-Lei. Reviewed by Béla Gunda.

OVAMBO PROVERBS WITH AFRICAN PARALLELS. By MATTI KUUSI. FF Communications No. 208. Academia Scientiarum Fennica. Helsinki, 1970. Pp. 356. Price 35.-mk. Reviewed by Bela Gunda.

STUDIES IN CHINESE FOLKLORE AND RELATED ESSAYS. By WOLFRAM EBERHARD. Indiana Research Center For the Language Sciences, Bloomington. Mouton and Co., The Hague, The Netherlands. (No price indicated). Reviewed by W. H. Hudspeth.

CLOUD-WALKING. By MARIE CAMPBELL. Indiana University Press. Bloomington and London, 1971. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

FRIEDRICH RANKE, KLEINERE SCHRIFTEN. Ed. by H. Rupp &; E. Studer. Bibliotheca Germanica. Bern (Francke Verlag) 1971. Pp. 444, 1 plate. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

KONTAKTE UND GRENZEN, PROBLEME DER VOLKS-, KULTER- UND SOZIALFORSCHUNG. Festschrift für Gerhard Heilfurth zum 60. Geburtstag. Ed. by his colleagues. Göttingen (Verlag Otto Schwartz &; Co.) 1969. Pp. xviii, 566. 81 photographs, 66 text illustrations, 1 map. Ellen Ettlinger.

A GAZETTEER OF BRITISH GHOSTS. By PETER UNDERWOOD. Souvenir Press. £2. Reviewed by Katharine M. Briggs.

THE EVIL EYE: THE ORIGINS &; PRACTICES OF SUPERSTITION. By F. T. ELWORTHY. With an Introduction by Louis S. Barron. Collier Books, 1970. Pp. 471. $2.95. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

SELECTED LEGENDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE. By SUSAN E. GREEN. Illustrations by Donald E. Green. Leicester Research Services. 1971. Pp. 39. 30p. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

WHAT WITCHES Do: THE MODERN COVEN REVEALED. BY STEWART FARRAR. Pp. 210, 22 photographs, 13 Text figs. Peter Davies Ltd., London, 1971. £2.50. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

GAMLE NORSKE FOLKEVISER. By SOPHUS BUGGE. Norsk Folkeminnelags Skrifter no. 106. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1971. Pp. 155. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

MEXICAN TALES and LEGENDS FROM LOS ALTOS. Introduction, classification, and notes by STANLEY L. ROBE. Folklore Studies 20. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970. Pp. 578, 6 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

VOLKSKULTUR UND GESCHICHTE, FESTGABE FÜR JOSEF DÜNNINGER ZUM 65. GEBURTSTAG. Edited by D. HARMENING, G. LUTZ, B. SCHEMMEL &; E. WIMMER. Berlin (Erich Schmidt Verlag) 1970. Pp. xix, 694. Plates 11, 3 text illustrations and 6 maps. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

Reviews of Folklore Scholarship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Ploughman and the Fairies

THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS. By FRANZ BOAS. (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. II. Anthropology, I. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition.) Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

MALAY MAGIC: BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE AND POPULAR RELIGION OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. By WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT. With a Preface by CHARLES OTTO BLAGDEN. Pp. 685, 28 plates. Macmillan and Co. 1900. Reviewed by John Abercromby.

ARADIA, OR THE GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES. By CHARLES G. LELAND. Nutt. 3s. 6d.

BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS. LIFE AND CUSTOMS. By the Rev. A. H. SAYCE. (The Semitic Series.) Nimmo.

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE. By W. L. RIPLEY. Boston (Mass.). 1899

ALLGEMEINE METHODIK DER VOLKSKUNDE. L. SCHERMANN UND F. S. KRAUSS. Berichte ueber Erscheinungen in den Jahren 1890–97. Erlangen : F. Junge. 1899.

NEUE BEITRāGE ZUR KENTNISS DES VOLKRāTHSELS. R. PETSCH. Berlin: Mayer und Müller. 1899. (Palaestra, No. 4.)

FOLKLORE IN ENGLAND UND AMERIKA. C. KLÖPPER. Dresden: C. A. Koch. 1899. (Neusprachlichle Abhandlungen, No. viii.) Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

SEGNIUS IRRITANT, OR EIGHT PRIMITIVE FOLKLORE STORIES. By W. W. STRICKLAND. Robert Forder. 1896. Reviewed by M. G.

NORTH-WEST SLAV LEGENDS AND FAIRY STORIES. By the same. A sequel to “Segnius Irritant.” Forder. 1897. Reviewed by M. G.

SOUTH-SLAVONIC FOLKLORE STORIES. With an Introductory Preface. By the same. Forder. 1899. Reviewed by M. G.

LA VEILLÉE : DOUZE CONTES TRADUITS DU ROUMAIN. Par JULES BRUN. Avec une Introduction par Mdlle. LUCILLE KITZO. Paris. Reviewed by M. G.

FOLK-LORE CATALAN. LÉGENDES DU ROUSSILLON. Par HORACE CHAUVET. Paris: J. Maisonneuve. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA. Collected by W. CROOKE and retold by W. H. D. ROUSE. Illustrated by W. H. ROBINSON. London : J. M. Dent and Co. 1899. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SHETLAND FOLK-LORE. By JOHN SPENCE, F.E.I.S. Lerwick: Johnson D. Greig. Reviewed by Florence Peacock.

PEASANT LORE FROM GAELIC IRELAND. Collected by DANIEL DEENEY. David Nutt. 1900.

BLUEBEARD, A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY AND FOLKLORE. BEING THE HISTORY OF GILLES DE RETZ OF BRITTANY, FRANCE, WHO WAS EXECUTED AT NANTES IN 1440 A.D., AND WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL OF BLUEBEARD IN THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE. By THOMAS WILSON, LL.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1899.     

The 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 Magical and Ceremonial Uses of Fire

G. DRIOUX. Cultes indigènes des Lingons. Essai sur les traditions religieuses d'une cité gallo-romaine avant le triomphe du Christianisme. (Grand in-8 de xxii–227 pages, 6 cartes et 8 planches hors-texte. A. Picard, Paris; Imprimerie Champenoise, Langres. 1934. 60 francs.). Reviewed by A. N. Newell.

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE : A STUDY OF PAGANISM. By JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY. London: Macmillan. 1934. Pp. xv+ 346. 15s. net. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

THREE ESSAYS ON SEX AND MARRIAGE. By EDWARD WESTERMARCK. Pp. ix.+353. London: Macmillan. 1934. Price 12s. 6d. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

REVUE INTERNATIONALE DES ÉTUDES BASQUES Vol. xxv, fasc. 2. April–June 1934. Pp. 201–352. Reviewed by P. Barbier.

ROSA SOEDER : DIE APOKRYPHEN APOSTELGESCHICHTEN UND DIE ROMANHAFTE LITERATUR DER ANTIKE. Stuttgart, 1932. W. Kohlhammer. XII. Pp.216. 8⁰. 9″ x 6″. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

LAWRENCE ECKER : ARABISCHER, PROVENZALISCHER UND DEUTSCHER MINNESANG. Bern und Leipzig. Paul Haupt, 1934. 236 pp. 8⁰. 9½″x6½″. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

R. F. FORTUNE. OMAHA SECRET SOCIETIES. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, vol. xiv. New York, Columbia University Press, 1932. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.     

Book reviews

RODERICK STACKELBERG. Idealism Debased: From Völkisch Ideology to National Socialism. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1981. Pp. XIII, 202, 3 plates. $18 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes

JEROME CH'EN. China and the West: Society and Culture 1815–1937. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. Pp. 488. $25.90 (Can.) Reviewed by David P. Barrett

FREDERICK W. MARKS ill. Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 247. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by Raymond A. Esthus

CRAIG L. SYMONDS. Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States, 1785–1827. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 252. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart

BERNARD RANSOM, Connolly's Marxism, London: Pluto, 1980. Pp. 126. Reviewed by Desmond Bowen

THOMAS A. BAILEY and PAUL B. RYAN, Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared War. London: Collier Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 302. £7.45. Reviewed by Ronald W. Pruessen

M.A. HICKS, False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence; George, Duke of Clarence, 1449–1478. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, and Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. 270. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Tittler

MURIEL ATKIN, Russia and Iran, 1780–1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 216. $20 (US). Reviewed by M.E. Yapp

J.K. FEDOROWICZ. England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Study in Anglo-Polish Commerical Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. XIII, 334. $35 (US). Reviewed by David S. Macmillan

MICHAEL CROWDER. Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays. London: Frank Cass, 1978. Pp. 341. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

PETER GRAF KIELMANSEGG. Deutschland und der erste Weltkrieg. 2. Auflage. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980. Pp. XI, 755. Reviewed by Henry Cord Meyer

PIOTR S. WANDYCZ. The United States and Poland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. XVI, 465. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by Stanislaw Bobr-Tylingo

FREDERICK COOPER. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Colonial Kenya, 1890–7925. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 328. $25 (US). Reviewed by Mike Mason

DONALD E. QUELLER. Medieval Diplomacy and the Fourth Crusade. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980. Pp. 322. £22. Reviewed by Bernice M. Kacznski

CHRISTINE MOSS HELMS. The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia: Evolution of Political Identity. London: Croom Helm, &; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. 313. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Ray L. Cleveland

CHRISTOPHER H.D. HOWARD, editor. The Diary of Edward Goschen, 1900–1914. London: Royal Historical Society (Camden Fourth Series, Vol. 25), 1980. Pp. xn, 315. £10. Reviewed by Briton C. Busch     

Minutes of Meeting June 19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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