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for the first time. Bibliography, index, and geographical register

will come in the last volume. As there are to be several, these

ought to have a volume to themselves.

While in the first volume the heroes of the tales are much of a

muchness, in the second they are of great variety. We have the

devil or familiar spirit in a bottle ; the devil in form of a thaler,

which enriches the owner; dragons, red, blue, fiery, and other;

snakes and otters ; kobolds, goblins, and dwarfs, male and

female ; changelings ; spirits of the woodland and the mittagsfraii,

— whom you meet between 12 and 2 p.m., and, if you meet her,

you must make a speech lasting till 2 p.m., on pain of death ;

nixies of the water in great abundance ; spirits in beast form,

otter, snake, basilisk, and so forth ; mountain spirits and night-

hunters by the score ; giants, and the demons of death, wind, and

pestilence ; with great quantities of devils. Of course the devil

flees before a devout Christian ; and many stories tell how he is

tricked by one cleverer than he, a well-known " motive," and

often amusing. The devil appears in many shapes, and even as

the helper of the oppressed. This summary will give an idea

of the extraordinary variety of matter in the second volume. It

remains to add that the contents show for each story its source in

a convenient way.

W. H. D. Rouse.

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We give a cordial welcome to this new magazine, which is badly needed. There is no part of Europe so rich as are the Greek lands in traditional lore of all sorts ; and now that the schoolmaster is abroad, and worse still the newspaper, — (for the Greek newspap-.r is the foe of everything natural), — all this will probably perish before long. Unfortunately, critical and scientific enquirers are few in Greece, but we may hope that their numbers will grow. One of them certainly is the veteran Polites, who is really the