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give. Thus, Mr. Jacobs' three articles upon the anthropology of the European Jew are duly chronicled, likewise his Studies m Jewish Statistics. But no hint is given that the latter work is simply a recueil factice comprising the three articles.

As regards omissions, no single work of Mr. Gomme is cited. Nor is Mr. Borlase's great work on i\\& Dolmens of Irelatid, nor Colonel Wood Martin's Pagan Ireland. Serials such as the Archceological Revieiv, the publications of the Folk-Lore Society, or the Archaologia Cambrensis, have been entirely neglected. In short, the institutional and psychical sides of anthropology have scant attention paid to them (not one of Professor Kovalevsky's works is noted), and the treatment of the British Isles compares unfavourably with that of the Continent. This is an American compilation, and it behoves Englishmen to be alive to the fact that from the point of view of culture, of science in the wide sense of the word, America is steadily drifting away from England. This is not to be wondered at ; England as a nation flouts culture and disdains science. But it is a little hard that just in the one field of research, psychical anthropology, in which Englishmen are holding their own, their efforts should fail of recognition at the hands of their American cousins.

Allgemeine Methodik der Volkskunde. L. Schermann UND F. S. Krauss. Berichte ueber Erscheinungen in den Jahren 1890-97. Erlangen : F. Junge. 1899.

This is an offprint from K. Vollmoller's Kritisches Jahresbericht ueber die Fortschriite der roina?iischen Fhiioiogie, vol. iv., part 3. It might therefore be supposed that it would pay special attention to works on folklore as exemplified in the literatures of the various Romance-speaking peoples. This is by no means the case. The work consists of two portions, the first, by Dr. L. Schermann, dealing with studies on the science of folklore (chiefly such as have appeared in our publications), issued from 1884 to 1890. It is good as far as it goes. I cannot speak so favourably of the larger portion of the work due to Dr. Krauss. He has noticed a great number of separate works as well as articles in periodicals ; his remarks are suggestive, often interesting, generally sound. But the absence of any index, the arbitrary and fantastic division of the subject matter, and still more the arbitrary choice of works dealt with, render the compilation of little practical value. As far