Some Notes on Homeric Folk-Lore

SHAMANISM IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA. By WILLARD Z. PARK. Northwestern University Studies in the Social Sciences, No. 2. Evanston and Chicago. 1938. 166 pages. Reviewed by John Layard.

SOME FORMER CAMBRIDGESHIRE AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS. By R. C. LAMBETH. Published by the Cambridge and County Folk Museum. 1s. Reviewed by L. F. Newman.

HOLY WELLS IN DERBYSHIRE. Reviewed by P. B. G. Binnall.     

Some Notes on the Huculs

Salpassa denotes the blessing of houses, land, and other belongings, carried out during Easter week and Resurrection (Easter) Sunday in the Valencia–Catalonia linguistic region of north-eastern Spain. Although it is now remembered mostly as a consecrating ceremony or a religious rite, recent field research has shown that a playful element, carried out by children through their songs and other activities, was also an important aspect of the traditional Salpassa.     

Some Introductory Notes

The authority of a court to declare laws and official acts unconstitutional is a practice which sheds a strong light on the interplay of law and politics. It is a judicial act which gives to judges so obvious a share in policymaking that where it prevails there is little room left for the pretense that judges only apply the law (Ehrmann, 1976, p 138)     

Some Stray Folklore Notes

This article uses ideas developed in the philosophy of science to examine two concepts of culture used in contemporary folkloristics. One of them appears mainly in the context of archival work, while the other occurs chiefly in discussions on themes such as identity politics and ethnic minorities. The main difference between the two concepts is that one is used when formulating ‘substantial theories’ related to ‘kinds’, whereas the other is a bone of contention in ongoing debates on the level of ‘grand theories’. Theoretical tools developed in earlier cultural research are taken into use in contemporary cultural movements, and this affects theoretical debates on the level of grand theories.     

Some Notes from North-Western India

The Aborigines of Tasmania. By H. Ling Roth. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Halifax: F. King &; Sons. 1899. 21s. nett. By A. C. Haddon.

Archæological Report, 1898: being part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario. Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly. Toronto: Warwick Brothers &; Rutter, 1898. By E. Sidney Hartland.

Archæological Report, 1899: being part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario. Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly. Toronto: Warwick Brothers &; Rutter, 1900. By. Sidney Hartland.

The Saga of King Sverri of Norway. Translated by J. Sephton, M.A. London: D. Nutt. 1899. (Northern Library, Vol. IV.). By W. A. Craigie.

Studies on Biblical Subjects, No. II. Jacob at Bethel : The Vision—The Stone—The Anointing. By A. Smythe Palmer, D.D. London: David Nutt. 1899. By A. H. Sayce.

The Homeric Hymns. A New Prose Translation, and Essays, Literary and Mythological. By Andrew Lang. With illustrations. George Allen.

Dr. M. Rosenfeld : Der Midrasch Deuteronomium Rabba, Par. IX. und XI. 2-10, ueber den Tod Moses. Berlin, 1899. By M. Gaster.

Die Krankheit im Volksglauben des Simmenthals. Ein Beitrag zur Ethnogrâphie des Berner Oberlandes. Von Dr. Hans Zahler. Bern: Hallersche Buchdruckerei. 1898. (Arbeiten aus dem Geographischem Institut der Universität Bern. Heft IV.)

Rügensche Skizzen. Herausgegeben von Dr. A. Haas. Greifswald, Julius Abel, 1898. By E. Sidney Hartland.

Naturgeschichtliche Volksmaerchen aus nah und fern. Gesammelt von Oskar Daenhardt. Leipzig, 1898.By Mabel Peacock.

Literatura Kulturne-historická a ethnografická. 1897-8. I. By Cenke Zibrt. (Reprinted from the “Cesky Lid.”)

Merry Suffolk, Master Archie, and other Tales : a Book of Folklore. By Lois A. Fison. With which is included “Tom Tit Tot” and Sequel, by Mrs. Walter Thomas. London: Jarrold &; Sons. 1899. By E. Sidney Hartland.

American Indians. By Frederick Starr. Boston: D. C Heath &; Co. 1899. By E. Sidney Hartland.

The Races of Man : an Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography. By J. Deniker, Sc D. (Paris). London : Walter Scott, Limited. 1900. By. Sidney Hartland.     

敦煌变文词语例释

有关研究敦煌变词汇的章已有六七十篇。但敦煌变中的词汇就像无尽的宝库,总是有挟发的地方。本选择其中数例词语,加以考释。     

Some Notes on the Biography of Maria Manasseina

A short note about the life and personality of Maria Manasseina (also known as Marie von Manassein, Marie de Manacéine), a Russian woman-doctor of the second half of the nineteenth century, a pioneer in biochemistry and experimental somnology.     

Thermographic Survey at Hagia Sophia: Main Arches,Pendentives and Tympana

Hagia Sophia is one of the oldest and most complex existing monuments. Many unanswered questions are still open on the historical and constructive evolution of this monument. The boundaries between the different construction phases and the details of the masonry and materials used in the various phases are still not defined with precision.

The thermographic survey, carried out inside the monument, made ??it possible to answer some of these questions by specifying the exact location of the past interventions and the variability of the materials employed allowing a better understanding of the constructive history of the monument. The technique was applied at a great distance and in normal environmental conditions, taking advantage of the high thermal sensitivity of the instrumentation. The results achieved confirm the validity of the technique in the study of ancient buildings.     

Notes on Some Vestiges of Roman Occupation in Dorset

An area of Mid-Anglo-Saxon deposits at Sandtun in West Hythe first studied in 1947–48 by Gordon Ward was re-examined between 1993–98 during assessments made in advance of housing development and in a research excavation. The site was occupied from at least c. 700 until 850–75 with some later reuse. It lay among sand dunes formed on a sand bank near the mouth of a gradually silting inlet. A range of activities was practised by the community there, including fishing, spindlewhorl manufacture and bone-working, in addition to salt-making recorded in a charter of 732. The metalwork was not significantly different from finds on contemporary rural sites. Amongst the bones was a considerable number from fish and birds which were caught locally. The ceramic assemblage included a high proportion of imported continental pottery and it is concluded that the site may have been a landing-place for trading ships. The implications of the site for the interpretation of the development of urbanism in Mid-Anglo-Saxon England and the operation of trade are examined.     

Notes on Some Examples of Church Architecture in Cornwall

A survey of the George Inn, with some references to the medieval cloth and wool trade, and an interpretation of the architectural evidence to show the various stages of building, the existing structure being of the late fourteenth century overlaid with many subsequent alterations. The upper floors were given their present jettied front c. 1500 when the building was extensively remodelled. The George was used both as an Inn and for storing and selling cloth at two important annual fairs held by the owners of the manor, the Carthusian Priory of Hinton Charterhouse. The George Inn stands on the south side of the former market place (called the Plain) in the centre of Norton St Philip, a small stone-built market town a few miles north-east of the Mendip Hills (ST 775 560). Norton lies on the route from Salisbury to Bristol and owes its former prosperity to the wool and cloth trade. The George itself is by far the largest secular building in the town and stands three storeys high, head and shoulders above its neighbours, at the cross-roads.     

Some Notes on Parametric Significance Tests for Geographically Weighted Regression

The technique of geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to model spatial 'drift' in linear model coefficients. In this paper we extend the ideas of GWR in a number of ways. First, we introduce a set of analytically derived significance tests allowing a null hypothesis of no spatial parameter drift to be investigated. Second, we discuss 'mixed' GWR models where some parameters are fixed globally but others vary geographically. Again, models of this type may be assessed using significance tests. Finally, we consider a means of deciding the degree of parameter smoothing used in GWR based on the Mallows C_p statistic. To complete the paper, we analyze an example data set based on house prices in Kent in the U.K. using the techniques introduced.