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lorists, who is content to wait in dignified silence the verdict of time and science. — Ed.]

Travel Notes in South Africa : a Correction.

(Vol. xiii., p. 484.)

Mr. H. D. Hemsworth has called my attention to two mistakes which I have made in reporting the information he was kind enough to give me. I have referred to "the Baperi or Duiker clan " as one of the principal clans of the Shangaans. The fact is that the Bapedi or Baperi are a Basuto clan, which I knew \ they are not a Shangaan clan, which I did not know, and therefore concluded that the Bapedi of whom Mr. Hemsworth was speaking belonged to the same people to whom the rest of his conversation related. The other mistake is less pardonable. The Duikers or Baphuti are a sub-clan of the Bapedi. The mistake in identifying them I can only attribute to carelessness in transcribing my rough notes made in the train, without stopping to consider or verify the terms. I am anxious to correct both blunders at the earliest possible moment ; and I take full blame for them.

E. Sidney Hartland.

The Celtic Other-World. {Supra, p. 339).

M. d'Arbois' letter does not dispose of Miss Hull's contention. The distinguished French scholar seems to think that Miss Hull's objection to his views is based wholly upon the outward aspect of the Irish " Other-world," and that he has only to defend himself against the assertion that he regards it " as a dismal Isle of Spirits." I believe that Miss Hull's objection is of a far deeper-seated and more thorough-going nature. Certainly mine