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.     

甘肃省天水市编辑地方志丛书的几点体会

完成首轮修志任务之后 ,天水市志办又出了地方志丛书和一些画册及其他小册子 ,取得了较大成功 ,他们的主要经验是 :1 解放思想、转变观念、与时俱进 ,为三个文明服务是编丛书的前提 ;2 挖掘和弘扬历史文化 ,满足社会和群众需求 ,是编辑丛书的基础 ;3 发挥优势 ,整合力量 ,精心编纂 ,是编辑丛书的保证 ;4 面向市场 ,大胆尝试 ,精心运作 ,是丛书出版发行的关键。     

Fabric for Seventeenth-Century Children and Adolescents' Clothes

Abstract

This article attempts to describe the information on clothing which can be taken from the relatively newly exploited source of the probate account (as opposed to the probate inventory). The accounts only itemize the costs of clothing children up to apprenticeship, or to marriage, not the fully adult. Fortunately for this author's interests, the bulk of the accounts cover the children of parents with moveable goods worth under £100, under yeoman status. This particular article focuses on the range of prices that can be gleaned from the accounts on the prices of fabrics, and demonstrates that the same fabrics in the seventeenth century came in a very large range of prices and qualities. It differs from Professor Shammas' conclusions. The costs of clothing minors rose in the seventeenth century. It examines the prices of boys' and girls' clothes that can be gathered from the accounts, and also the types of fabric that were used to make each type of garment for them, taking into account the economic status of each child. It concludes that although the finer, more expensive, fabrics more commonly made up clothes for better-off children, this did not always follow : nor did the poor always wear the cheapest fabrics. There was no clear social stratification, although there was a rough one.     

迷人之谜

<正> 神农架成为我们关注的目标。到神农架之前尽管做了充分的准备,但还是心怀忐忑,怕野人来袭,怕不可预测的事情发生,一路上精神紧张又亢奋,备受刺激。神农架有那么多谜团,其中神农架的野人之谜最为人乐道。野人至今没有捕捉到,那位胡子头发老长在深山里候了8年也未果的张金星,野人倒成就了他的名声。我想,越是神秘的东西越能激发人们的好奇心,鼓动着探     

Some Significant Recent Books in the Field of Mediaeval Literature

Although much has been written about André Breton’s concept of the Surrealist image, the present article examines a number of aspects that have so far escaped notice. In particular, it examines several antecedents of Pierre Reverdy’s theory of the image and compares the latter to that developed in the Manifeste du surréalisme. A close reading of the manifesto reveals the presence of a previously unknown model used by Breton in formulating his theory.     

神奇遵化

帝王陵寝,佛祖舍利,古泉圣水,长城猎场,奇人隐士——遵化隐藏着太多的神秘等待着我们去探寻。