Folklore from the Hebrides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.     

Billy Beg,Tom Beg,and the Fairies

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

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

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

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

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

FOLK ARTS. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

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.     

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..     

Some Personal Experiences

HOMER AND MYCENAE. By M. P. NILSSON. Pp. xii x 283. 52 ill., 2 maps. London : Methuen, 1933. 21s. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

RAGGLE-TAGGLE. By WALTER STARKIE. Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania. London: John Murray, 1933. 8vo. Pp. xvi. + 399. 8½″ x 5½″ 10s. 6d. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

OSTTUERKISCHE TEXTE. By GUNNAR JARRING. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

NIKOLAUSKULT UND NIKOLAUSBRAUCH IM ABENDLANDE : Eine kultgeographisch-volkskundliche Untersuchung. By KARL MEISEN. Düsseldorf: L. Schwann, 1931. 11½″ x 9″. Pp. xx.+ 558. 217 text illustrations and 2 maps. 36 reichsmarks. Reviewed by W. L. H.

THE FESTIVAL OF ADONIS, BEING THE XVTH IDYLL OF THEOCRITUS ; edited with a revised Greek text, translation and brief notes by E. H. BLAKENEY, M.A.; to which is added a rendering in English Verse of the Lament for Adonis attributed to Bion. London: Eric Partridge Limited, at the Scholartis Press. 1933. Pp. 37; 240 copies printed. Price 7s. 6d. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

FOLKMINNEN OCH FOLKTANKEN. Band XX, häfte 1. 1933. 9¾″ x 6½″. Göteborg. Reviewed by A. K. Cyriax.

THE FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR IN VÄRMLAND (MID-WEST SWEDEN) ABOUT A.D. 1700. Excerpts from ERLAND HOFSTEN'S MS., with notes by HILDING CALANDER. Reviewed by A. K. Cyriax.

LES CINQUANTE JUGEMENTS DE SALOMON. By P. SAINTYVES. Paris, F. Loviton et Cie. 1933. 117 pp. 7″ x 4½″. Price? Reviewed by M. Gaster.

JOHN HENRY. A Folk-Lore Study. By Louis W. CHAPPELL. Jena, Frommannsche Verlag, Walter Biedermann, 1933. Pp. 144. R.M. 6. Reviewed by H. C. L.

THE PROGRESS or MAN : a short Survey of his Evolution, his Customs and his Works. By A. M. HOCART. London : Mcthucn &; Co., Ltd., 1933. 7½″ x 5″, pp. xvi + 316. 7s. 6d. net. Reviewed by Warren R. Dawson.

THE FEAR OF THE DEAD IN PRIMITIVE RELIGION. Lectures delivered on the William Wyse Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1932–1933. By Sir JAMES GEORGE FRAZER, O.M., F.R.S., F.B.A. 8½″ x 5½″ pp. viii + 204. London : Macmillan &; Co., Ltd. 10s. 6d. net. Reviewed by Warren R. Dawson.     

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.     

Striped-petticoat Philosophy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Comes I: Performance Memory and Landscape

HANDWOERTERBUCH DES DEUTSCHEN MAERCHENS. Herausgegeben unter besonderer Mitwirkung von JOHANNES BOLTE und Mitarbeit zahlreicher Fachgenossen von LUTZ MACKENSEN. Band I. Berlin und Leipzig, 1931. Verlag Walter de Gruyter &; Co. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

THE HILL BHUIYAS OF ORISSA. By RAI BAHADUR SARAT CHANDRA ROY, M.A., B.L. Ranchi: Man in India Office, 1935. 8¾″x5¼″. Pp. iv+320+xxxviii, with 17 Plates. Price, Rupees 8. Reviewed by F. J. Richards.

ORPHEUS AND GREEK RELIGION: A STUDY OF THE ORPHIC MOVEMENT. By W. K. C. GUTHRIE, M.A., Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, with 16 plates and 19 text illustrations. Pp. xix, 287. Methuen and Co. Price 21s. nett. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.     

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.     

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.