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406 northern districts of Russia, such as A. Markov's Byliny of the White Sea (1901), N. Onchukov's Byliny of the Pechora (1904), and P. Grigoriev's Byliny and Historical Songs of Archangel (1904). The materials of folklore being abundant and scattered all over the country, there is a pressing need for classifying and docketing them in order to make them accessible to the student. The first step in this direction has already been made by the Russian Geographical Society, which has just begun to record the folklore material collected in its archives.

The series of finely illustrated monographs, edited by Dr. P. Ehrenreich, of which the first is noted above, is not by any means confined to matters of technological and museum interest. In 1910 appeared a collection of sayings and songs from the Turfan region (Central Asia) by A. v. Le Coq, and the seven sections issued in 1911 included collections of folk-tales and of children's games from German New Guinea, of the folk-tales and customs of the Waschambaa, an illustrated account of religious mendicants in S. India and one of a brahmanical representation of the universe, several descriptions from Togo of rituals, magic, puberty festivals, etc., and a conscientious article on the Bana (Kamerun), their string games, etc. The price of each volume of six sections is only 20 marks.

Hindu legends and marvels are dispersed through the notes on Jodhpur and Kishangadh States. One curious story,—of the means by which Ravana, the enemy of Rama, propitiated