The English Fairies

FORTY-FIVE STORIES FROM THE DODECANESE. Ed. from the MSS. of J. Zarraftis and trans, by R. M. Dawkins. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1950. £5 5s. Reviewed by E. O. Winstedt.

THE CONCEPT OF DEITY : A Comparative and Historical Study. The Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion in the University of Oxford. By E. O. JAMES, D.Litt., D. D., Ph.D., F.S.A. Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, Fellow of University College. Hutchinson's University Library, London. 1950. Pp. xiii, 200. 18s. Reviewed by S. H. Hooke.

A BOOK OF GYPSY FOLK-TALES, selected by DORA E. YATES, with a frontispiece by AUGUSTUS JOHN and a foreword by RUPERT CROFTCOOKE. London, Phoenix House, 1948. Pp. XVII, 197. Five illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

THE LASCAUX CAVE PAINTINGS. By FERNAND WINDELS. Faber &; Faber, 1949. Price 42s. Reviewed by D. A. E. Garrod.

FOLK-SONGS OF CHHATTISGARH. By VERRIER ELWIN. With a comment by W. G. Archer. Oxford University Press (Indian Branch) 1946, LXI-466 pp., Price: Rs. 15. Reviewed by C. Von Fürer-Haimendorf.

NUESTRA GENTE : “NAMUY MISAG” : TIERRA, COSTUMBRES Y CREENCIAS DE LOS INDIOS GUAMBIANOS. Textos de Gregorio Hernández de Alba. Dibujos de Francisco Tumiña Pillimue. Universidad del Cauca, Instituto Etnológico. Popayán, 1949. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

JOSÉ CELESTINO MUTIS. Lufs DE HOYOS SÁINZ. Breviarios de la Vida Española; Editora Nacional : Madrid, 1949. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

CHILDREN'S GAMES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. By LESLIE DAIKEN, B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1949. Pp. viii, 216. 18s.net. Reviewed by Iona Opie.

LE FOYER BRETON. By EMILE SOUVESTRE. Jean Vigneau, Paris, 1947. Reviewed by V. A..