Manx Folk-Lore and Superstitions

Mythes, Cultes et Religion, par A. Lang, traduit par Léon Marillier. Bibliothèque de Philosophic contemporaine, Paris: F. Alcan. 1896. By A. C. H.

Bahama Songs and Stories. A contribution to Folklore. By Charles L. Edwards, Ph. D., Professor of Biology in the University of Cincinnati. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin &; Co., 1895.

Studies in Ancient History : The Second Series, comprising an Inquiry into the Origin of Exogamy. By the late John Ferguson M'Lennan. Edited by his Widow and Arthur Platt. London : Macmillan and Co. Limited. 1896.

Henry Callaway, M. D., D. D., First Bishop of Kaffraria. His Life-History, and Work. A Memoir by Marian S. Benham. Edited by the Rev. Canon Benham. London: Macmillan &; Co., Limited. 1896.

Horde und Familie in ihrer urgeschichtlichen Entwickelung. Eine neue Theorie auf statistischer Grundlage von Dr. Joh. Richard Mucke. Stuttgart, Enke: 1895, 8vo.     

Highland Fisher-Folk and their Superstitions.

Studies on the history of folkloristics in colonial India during the second part of the nineteenth century have been hampered by excessive focus on European folklorists who published extensive collections of Indian folklore. The role of the indigenous folklorists and their agendas, as well as their ways of knowing and constructing folklore, has been ignored. The present article examines the contributions of the indigenous scholar V. N. Narasimmiyengar, an Indian civil servant in Mysore. It seeks to trace, examine, and analyse his active contribution to the making of folklore studies. The case of Narasimmiyengar may be regarded as representative of an engagement with modernity that led to a view of folklore as traditional, rural, and in need of the touch of civilization.     

Folk-Lore Miscellanea

Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship. By J. G. Frazer. London: Macmillan &; Co., Ltd. 1905. 8vo. xi. and 309 pp.

The Origin of Priesthood. By Gunnar Landtman. Skennes, Finland. 1905. 8vo. xi. and 207 pp. By F. Pollock.

The Mediaeval Stage. By E. K. Chambers. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 2 vols. 1903. By Oliver Elton.     

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.     

Lincolnshire Superstitions

Studies in Folk-Song-and Popular Poetry. By Alfred M. Williams, with a Prefatory Note by Edward Clodd. 8vo; pp. vi., 329. Elliot Stock, 1895.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Translated by C. H. S. Davies. Putnam Sons, New York. By Joseph Jacobs.

Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri. First Series, IVth to XIIth Dynasty Edited Flinders Petrie, Hon. D.C.L. Illustrated by Tristram Ellis. London, Methuen &; Co. 1895.

Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World collected from oral tradition in South-West Munster by Jeremiah Curtin. David Nutt, 1895.