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Rh will the material comforts of the visitors be disregarded. The President will offer lunch to part of the excursionists at his old College, Merton, while Professor Rhys proffers the hospitality of Jesus College to the remainder.

So much for the social side of the Congress, which, owing to the youth of the science, is, as we have seen, of greater importance than in more firmly established sciences. Yet the youth of the science has advantages in the more severe and theoretical sides also. With science past the formation period all that remains to be done is the amplification of detail and the development of method already made use of In folk-lore there is still the pleasure of hope to attract the researcher. He may hope to solve problems which have evaded the skill of former inquirers. He may even discover new methods of arriving at the truth of things folk-lorical, if that be the proper adjective. The papers of the Congress will not be devoted to minute details, but will mainly deal with the broader problems of the subject, chiefly on the lines laid down by the Literary Committee of the Congress, and expounded in their circulars of last September (printed in, vol. i, p. 510).

First come the four presidential addresses—of the President, Mr. Andrew Lang, the Chairman of the Folk-tale section, Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, the Chairman of the Mythological section, Professor Rhys, and the Chairman of the Institutions section, Professor Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. On the Folk-tale day papers are to be read, among others, by M. E. Cosquin, on "Incidents common to European and Eastern Folk-tales"; by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, on "the Problem of Diffusion"; by Mr. F. Hindes Groome, on "the Gipsy Element in European Folk-tales"; and by Mr. MacRitchie, on "the Historical Basis of certain Folk-tale Personages". On the day set apart for Mythology, among the papers read will be one by Mr. J. F. Frazer, on "Deluge Myths"; by Mr. W. B. Baton, on "Holy Names of the Eleusinian Priests"; and by Mr. F. B. Jevons, on the "Primitive Home of the Aryans"; by Miss Owen, on