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the original clan proper names, the next child born into the clan, if of the sex to which the temporarily obsolete name belonged, had this name bestowed upon it." Here we are led to wonder whether the child was regarded as a new incarnation of the de- ceased owner of the name. The Hurons, we know, believed in re-birth ; and the Wyandots, though perhaps in the main Iroquoian, had relations with the Hurons, and probably had Huron blood in their veins.

I must refer members of the Society who are engaged in the study of early beliefs and institutions to the Report itself for the details of Wyandot organisation, names, and myths which it contains. Nor does the interest of the Report stop with Mr. Connelley's monograph. Mr. Boyle has taken great pains in collecting pagan Iroquois songs, and the graphophone has been utilised for this purpose. The music of no fewer than forty- seven songs is recorded in these pages. Mr. Alexander T. Cringan, a musical expert, has superintended their transcription from the graphophone cylinders, and has written a commentary upon them.

A passing mention must suffice for Mr. A. F. Hunter's account of Huron village sites in the township of Tay (Simcoe County), Mr. Boyle's own explanation of the mounds in Pelee Island, and other archaeological work in the narrower sense of the term, since they do not specially concern the Folk-Lore Society. But it must not be supposed that they will not well repay an anthropological reader.

E. Sidney Hartland.

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

For the folklorist the new volume of the Northern Library does not possess the interest of the earlier one by the same translator. The saga of Olaf Tryggvason and that of Sverri are works of a very different type ; the one resting upon traditions from which the lapse of time had cleared away unessential details and given

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