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proportion to the expense, then here I venture to suggest is a case for the help of the Folk-Lore Society.

E. Sidney Hartland.

The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria. By Major A. J. N. Tremearne. Seeley, Service & Co., 191 2. 8vo, pp. xvi-l- 342.

The value of this account of experiences among a savage race lies in the fact that the author has qualified for the diploma of anthropology in the University of Cambridge. Three chapters are devoted to Customs and Superstitions, one to Courtship, Marriage, Divorce, and Childbirth, and one to Hausa folklore, all of which deserve study. The custom of head-hunting he explains by the belief that the ghosts of the victims must serve the slayer in the next world, this advantage being also gained to the living from skulls thoughtfully collected by their pious ancestors. He gives some details of initiation rites which do not disclose much intimate knowledge. If a child be an idiot or cripple it is drowned ; " if after you have thrown him into the water, you go away, and then come back silently and lude yourself, you will see the child lenothen out until it becomes a snake."

A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North -West Frontier Province. By H. A. Rose. Lahore, 1911. Vol. IL 8vo, pp. iv + 573.

This is the first instalment of an important work, which promises to supply for the Punjab an account of its people similar to those already issued in the course of the Ethnographical Survey for Bengal, Madras, and the United Provinces. A second volume will complete the Glossary, and a third will contain a reprint of the valuable ethnographical chapters contributed to the Census Reports of 1881 and 1891 by the late Sir D. Ibbetson and