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 240 Reviews,

Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft Edited by A. Dieterich and T. Achelis. Vol. VII., Prospectheft. Leipzig : Teubner.

The object of the editors of this excellent quarterly in sending a copy of \h&\x prospectheft to Folk-Lore is doubtless to call the attention of English-speaking students of " folk-religion " to the reorganisation of the Archiv on international lines. Professor Dieterich informs me in a private letter that articles or notes may be written in German, English, French, Italian, or Modern Greek ; and in the prospectheft we have extracts from a very interesting paper written in English on " Sociological hypotheses concerning the position of women in ancient religion " by Dr. Farnell of Oxford. Each number will consist of three sections, one reserved for original articles, another for reports on the work done during the past year in this and that department of the science of religion, and a third for short notes and commu- nications of all sorts. Students will find the contents of the second section of great use. Thus we have from the able pen of Dr. K. Th. Preuss, of the Berlin Mtiseum fiir Volkerkunde, a con- cise summary of the world's output for 1902 and 1903 on the subject of American religion, a subject which he has made his own. From such a summary one gets a far better idea of where to seek fresh light than from any mere bibliography. Finally, a good word must be said for the Archiv on the score of its compre- hensive scope. Savage religion, folk-religion, and the religions of civilisation, Semitic, Egyptian, Indian, classical— all these interests receive equal attention at the hands of eminent specialists in its pages, and the international host of co-workers is reminded of the common end to which its multifarious labours tend.

R R. M.\RETT.

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