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360 charms against evil. The idea is plausible, but needs to be substantiated by fuller and more precise evidence than she has as yet brought forward.

Into the musical value of the Folk-Song Society's collections we cannot here enter, but we may echo the admiration of the lamented Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg, for "the earnestness and energy with which it carries out its objects," and the hope he expressed shortly before his death that these folk-melodies may in time "form the basis of an independent national style of music" in England.

Gypsy-Lore Society, after having been in abeyance for fifteen years, has taken a new lease of life, and established itself in new headquarters at 6 Hope Place, Liverpool. The pages of its Journal are chiefly occupied by papers on the history and language of the wandering tribe, and by a posthumous article on the Tinker folk by the late Charles Godfrey Leland. Of folklore there are a couple of brief folk-tales from Slavonia, the story of the Owl and the Baker's Daughter from a Welsh gipsy, and a couple of riddles, the inquiring contributor of which may be referred to the Folk-Song Journal, vol. ii. p. 297. We observe with interest a proposal to undertake an "anthropological" (qu. anthropometrical or ethnographical?) survey of the Gypsies.