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.     

Rhymes,English and Hindu.

THE BEOTHUCKS OR RED INDIANS, THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND. By JAMES P. HOWLEY, F.G.S. 4to. Cambridge: University Press. 1915. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

LOWLAND SCOTCH AS SPOKEN IN THE LOWER STRATHEARN DISTRICT OF PERTHSHIRE. By Sir JAMES WILSON, K.C.S.I. 8vo. 276 pp. Oxford University Press. 1915. Reviewed by C. S. Burne.     

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Quantitative and Qualitative Geography: La Nécessitéďun Dialogue, edited by H. M. French and J-B. Racine, University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa
La cartographie thématique comme méthode de recherche, par Paul Claval et Jean-Claude Wieber
Urban Problems, edited by R. Krueger and R. C. Bryfogle, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston
Urban Prospects, by J. Wolforth and R. Leigh, McClelland & Stewart
Land Adjustment Problems in Prince Edward Island, by Andrée Beaulieu
Landowners and Land Use in the Tantramar Area, New Brunswick, by C. I. Jackson and J. W. Maxwell
Roadside Erosion and Resources Implications in Prince Edward Island, by Gail de Belle
The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871–1881, by Pierre Berton
The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881–1885, by Pierre Berton, McClelland and Stewart
Géographie de Ľindustrie manufacturiére du Québec, par Jacques Girard
Meseta and Campiña Landforms in Central Spain: A Geomorphology of the Alto Henares Basin, by Bruce G. Gladfelter
Numerical Analysis in Geomorphology: An Introduction, by John C. Doornkamp and Cuchlaine A. M. King, Edward Arnold, London
Physical Geography: A Systems Approach, by Richard J. Chorley and Barbara A. Kennedy
Economics of Outdoor Recreation, by Marion Clawson and Jack L. Knetsch, Toronto     

The Binding of a God: A Study of the Basis of Idolatry

ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN, by LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES TOD, edited by WILLIAM CKOOKE, 3 vols. Oxford University Press. London : Milford. Reviewed by M. Longworth Dames.

THE DENDROGLYPHS OR “CARVED TREES” OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological Series, No. 3. Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Govt. Printer. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DAS WEIB IM ALTINDISCHEN EPOS : EIN BEITRAG ZUR INDISCHEN UND ZUR VERGLEICHENDEN KULTURGESCHICHTE. Von JOHANN JACOB MEYER. Wilhelm Heims. Leipzig, 1915. M. 15. Reviewed by W. H. D. Rouse.

MAGIC IN NAMES AND IN OTHER THINGS, by EDWARD CLODD. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920. 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.     

The Little Lady

CREATION AND COSMOLOGY: A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDY. by E. O. JAMES, (Supplement to Numen), Brill, Leiden, 1969. Reviewed by S. G. F. Brandon

DE ZALMOXIS A GENGIS-KHAN. Études comparative sur les religions et le folklore de la Dacie et de l'Europe orientale. By MIRCEA ELIADE. Payot Paris, 1970. Pp. 252. 29.70 Francs. Reviewed by E. O. James.

MYTH. Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures. By G. S. KIRK. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 299. £3.25 net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

POSITIVELY BLACK. By ROGER D. ABRAHAMS. Prentice Hall International Inc., New Jersey and London. 30s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE PAGAN CELTS. By ANNE ROSS. London (B. T. Batsford Ltd) 1970. Pp. 224. 100 photographs and drawings by R. W. Feachem. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

HANS I VADESTØVLERNE. By JETTE LINDBO LEVY. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1968. Pp. 151 + English summary. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

TANGU TRADITIONS. A Study of the Way of Life Mythology, and Developing Experience of a New Guinea People. By KENELM BURRIDGE. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, 1969. Pp. xxiii + 513. 7 plates of illustrations. 6 figures. 2 maps. 4 tables. £5. Reviewed by J. S. Ryan.

WITCHCRAFT. Ed. BARBARA ROSEN. The Stratford on Avon Library, Vol. 6. Edward Arnold Ltd 1969. Pp. 407+xii. 21 line blocks. Reviewed by C. A. Burland.

THE SONG TRADITION OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA. By PETER A. MUNCH. India University, 1970. Pp. 176. Musical illustrations. Reviewed by Maud Karpeles.

TRISTAN AND ISEULT IN CORNWALL. By E. M. R. DITMAS. Published by Roberts, Brockworth, Gloucester. Reviewed by B. C. Spooner.

THE CUSTOMS, SUPERSTITIONS, &; LEGENDS OF THE COUNTRY OF SOMERSET. By C. H. POOLE. Toucan Press, 1970. Pp. 147. 428. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

MEMOIRS OF A VICTORIAN CABINET MAKER. JAMES HOPKINSON. Edited by Jocelyne Baty Goodman. Routledge &; Kegan Pau1, £1.10.0. Reviewed by Alicia C. Percival.     

Revisions of the Vanquished: Some Recent Studies in New Mexican and Mesoamerican Colonial History

Vingt études sur le Mexique et le Guatemala. Réunies à la mémoire de Nicole Percheron. Edited by ALAN BRETON, JEAN‐PIERRE BERTHE and SYLVIE LECOIN. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1991. Pp. 381.

Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico 1693–1821. By BERNARDO P. GALLEGOS. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 119.

Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology. By JAMES LOCKHART. Stanford: Stanford Universty Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 304.

The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. By JAMES LOCKHART. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 650.

Disease and Death in Early Colonial Mexico: Simulating Amerindian Depopulation. By THOMAS M. WHITMORE. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 261.     

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.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Le Saint-Laurent, grande porte de l'Amérique , par J ean -C laude L asserre , Hurtubise HMH, Montréal
The Geography of Laws and Justice: Spatial Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System , by K eith D. H arries and S tanley D. B runn
Geographical Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency , by D avid J. E vans
The Criminal's Image of the City , by R onald L. C arter and K im Q. H ill
Crime: A Spatial Perspective , edited by D aniel E. G eorges -A beyie and K eith D. H arries     

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
The Seigneurial System in Early Canada. A Geographical Study, by R ichard C ole - brook H arris
The Earth Sciences in Canada: A Centennial Appraisal and Forecast, edited by E. R. W. N eale , T oronto
Le Canada, par L ouis -E dmond H amelin (Collection Magellan, dirigée par Pierre George, vol. 28), Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1969, 301 pp., 22.00 ff
Factorial Ecology of Metropolitan Toronto, 1951-1961: An Essay on The Social Geography of the City, by R obert A. M urdie
Geographic Studies of Urban Transportation and Network Analysis, edited by F rank H orton
Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography, edited by B rian J. L. B erry and D uane F. Marble
Groundwater-Streamfiow Systems: Proceedings of Workshop Seminar sponsored by Laval University and the Canadian National Committee for the International Decade, September 18 and 19, 1967, edited by D. S himeld
Water, Earth and Man: A Synthesis of Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Socio-economic Geography, edited by R ichard J. C horley     

Ancient Dominions

HENRY KISSINGER. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Pp. 912. $45.00 (US)

M. S. ANDERSON. The Rise of Modern Diplomacy, 1450–1919. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. x, 320. $80.95 (CDN)

KEITH HAMILTON and RICHARD LANGHORNE. The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution, Theory, and Administration. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. vii, 879. £12.99, paper

JAMES L. RICHARDSON. Crisis Diplomacy: The Great Powers since the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 436. $59.95 (US), cloth; $19.95 (US), paper.     

Reviews / Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Les régions géographiques au Mexique, par C laude B ataillon , Travaux et Mémoires de l'lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de I'Amérique Latine
Readings in Canadian Geography , edited by R obert M. I rving
World Migration in Modern Times , edited by F ranklin D. S cott , a Spectrum Book, Global History Series
Statistical Analysis in Geography , by L eslie J. K ing
A Ceremonial Ox of India: the Mithan in Nature, Culture, and History , by F rederick J. S imoons , with the assistance of E lizabeth S. S imoons
Acadia: The Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760 , by A ndrew H. C lark
L'Europe rhénane , par E tienne J uillard     

A Modern Mumming Analogue: United Services Organizations Shows

GASTON VAN BULCK, S.J., Beiträge zur Methodih der Völkerkunde. 8vo, pp. viii. + 256. Wien: Universitäts-Institut für Völkerkunde (Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik, vol. ii), 1931. Price Rm. 10. Reviewed by Theodore Besterman.

OCEANIA. A Journal devoted to the study of the native peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Published for the Australian National Research Council by Macmillan &; Company, Ltd., Melbourne and London. Volume II, Sept. 1931–June 1932. Reviewed by Beatrice Blackwood.

ORIGINS OF SACRIFICE. By E. O. JAMES. London : John Murray, 1933. 10s. 6d. net. 9″ x 6″. Pp. 314+xvi. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.

HANDWÖRTERBUCH DES DEUTSCHEN ABERGLAUBENS. Heruasgegeben von E. HOFFMANN-KRAYER u. H. BÄCHTOL STÄUBLI. Walter de Gruyter &; Co., Berlin and Leipzig, 1931. 7″ x 10½″. Band IV, 1584 columns. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

A HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEXICO. By FRAY BERNARDINO DE SAHAGUN. Translated by FANNY R. BANDELIER. (Fisk University Press, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.) Reviewed by Richard C. E. Long.     

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
The Third World in Perspective by H.A. REITSMA and J.M.G. KLEINPENNING,
Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective by CAROLYN HALL, Westview Press, London
Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organization of the Nonfarm Sector by DONALD B. FREEMAN and GLEN B. NORCLIFFE
Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions by DONALD J. SAVOIE,
Gentrification OF the City edited by NEIL SMITH and PETER WILLIAMS, Allen and Un-win Inc.
Satellites et capteurs par JEAN CASSANET, Paradigme, Caen, France
Les données-images par GÉRARD JOLY, Paradigme, Caen, France
GAETAN L. LESSARD et JEAN-MARIE M. DUBOIS niversité de Sherbrooke
The Good Life by YI-FU TUAN
Technological Transitions in Cartography by MARK S, MONMONIER,     

REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Mathematical Programming Methods for Geographers and Planners by JAMES E. KILLEN, Croom Helm
Northern Ecology and Resource Management: Memorial Essays Honouring Don Gill edited by ROD OLSON, ROSS HASTINGS, and FRANK GEDDES
Urbanization in China: Town and Country in a Developing Economy 1949–2000 A.D . by R.J.R. KIRBY
Silicon Landscapes edited by PETER HALL and ANN MARKUSEN, Allen and Un-win
Plains Country Towns by JOHN C. HUDSON     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
The Last Refuge , by J.G. N elson
The Natural Landscapes of Canada by J. B rian B ird
Water: A Primer , by L una B. L eopold
L'Espace haïtien , par G eorges A nglade
Colonialism, Development and Independence: The Case of the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific , by H.C. B rookfield     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Locational Analysis in Human Geography , by P. H aggett
Areas of Economic Stress in Canada: Proceedings of a Conference, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario , edited by W. D. W ood and R. S. T homan
Scandinavian Lands , by R oy M illward
Introduction to the Atmosphere , by H erbert R iehl
Richards Atlas of New York State, edited by ROBERT J. RAYBACK and EDWARD L. TOWLE, Frank E. Richards, Phoenix
The American City: An Urban Geography, by RAYMOND E. MURPHY, McGraw-Hill
Plants, Animals and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies, by D. R. HARRIS, University of California, Publications in Geography
The Compeiiiive Position of the Port of Durban, by N. MANFRED SHAFFER, North western University Studies in Geography
The Physiography of Southern Ontario, 2nd edition, by L. J. CHAPMAN and D. F. PUTNAM, Toronto
The Elevated System and the Growth of Northern Chicago, by JAMES LESLIE DAVIS, Studies in Geography
The Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor: A Geographic Study of Inter-metropolitan Coalescence, by IRVING CUTLER
The Spatial Pattern of Grocery Purchases by the Iowa Rural Population, by GERARD RUSHTON, Studies in Business and Economics