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 FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

HE Council has to report a steady progress in the work of the Society during the past year, including the clearing up of some important arrears.

The Handbook of Folk-Lore, which had been in preparation for three years, was issued in October last, and the Council believe that this will be the means of enlisting more assistance in the important work of collection than any step which the Council has hitherto taken. The book has been forwarded to every member of the Society, and widely distributed to the press throughout the country. Arrangements have also been made for placing a certain number of copies at the disposal of members of the Council, and of the Secretary of the Geographical Society, for the use of travellers and others who are likely to assist in the Society's work.

The tabulation of Folk-tales has been actively proceeded with, owing to the great attention given to the subject by Miss Roalfe Cox, and it is hoped that before the next annual meeting a volume will be in fair progress, if not actually ready, on the Cinderella group of stories tabulated and analysed on a plan which will prove to be of considerable value to students.

During the past year the Council has issued the Exempla of Jacques de Vitry, edited by Professor Crane, and the first volume of, the new series of the official organ of the Society. In both these publications the Council think that the Society has cause for congratulation. The publications for the new year will be the Denham