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8 the members of the circle, some 35 in number. This is a new departure for which the Stepney Council are much to be commended, and there is no reason why similar reading circles should not be formed in other parts of London; if only a few other members of the Society were as energetic as Mr. Lovett.

The Society has issued during the year the fourteenth volume of its Transactions, Folk-Lore, and the Council's thanks are due to Miss Burne for the invaluable assistance she has so ungrudgingly rendered them in editing the volume. The Council have also again to thank Mr. A. R. Wright for the Index. With regard to the illustrations, the Council have decided not to place any particular limit on the expenditure to be incurred under this head. They feel that the Journal of the Society should be made as attractive as possible; and that the illustrations tend to make it attractive, there can be no doubt. So far therefore as the funds of the Society permit, and the subject-matter for illustrations can be secured. Folklore will in future be illustrated as copiously as possible.

The Society has also issued during the year the Orkney and Shetland collection of Folklore from printed sources, by Mr. G. F. Black, which is the extra volume for 1901. The circumstances which led to the delay in the publication of this volume were explained by the Council in their last Report. The additional volume promised for 1902 is Miss M. A. Owen's monograph on the Musquakie Indians (selections from which were read at the February meeting), with a descriptive catalogue of the collection of Musquakie beadwork and other objects presented by her to the Society. The publication of this volume has been delayed in order to enable Miss Owen to make some necessary additions to the catalogue. It is hoped, however, that the volume may be in the hands of members early in the year. As foreshadowed in the last Report, the additional volume for 1903 will be a collection of materials for the history of English Folk-Drama, edited by Mr. T.