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Among the guarantees of authenticity is a lengthy list of the peasant singers to whom the author is indebted. It includes not merely the names of both men and women, but also details as to birthplace, residence, age, and occupation. This is an excellent example which might be followed in collecting traditions wherever practicable.

A careful account of the pronunciation, and the literal transla- tion which follows each song, give a valuable insight into the dialect. The appendix and notes elucidate a number of customs to which reference is made, or which are the occasions of the songs, and are indispensable for their understanding.

Lastly, the volume is adorned with five clear and beautiful plates from photographs of customs that have now passed or are passing away, and of the ancient musical instruments of the district.

It is to be hoped that M. Arnaudin, after forty years spent in collection, will be enabled speedily to give the world the results of his life's work, not merely by publishing the remainder of the songs, but also the tales and customs that without his help would have vanished and left not a wrack behind.

E. Sidney Hartl.\nd.

Albrecht Dieterich. Kleine Schriften. Herausgegeben von Richard Wunsch. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1911. 8vo, pp. xlii + 546. Mit einem Bildnis und 2 Tafeln. III. 12 m. The death of Albrecht Dieterich in 1908 at the age of forty-two, and at the height of his powers, was an irreparable loss to German scholarship and to the study of the history of religions. Apart from the stores of accumulated knowledge that were buried with him, his untimely death removed a teacher endowed with the power of arousing interest and stimulating enthusiasm in those studies to which he had devoted his great gifts. In this country, where it is the fashion, — perhaps too much the fashion, — for classi- cal scholars to coquette with folklore and ethnology, it is difficult to estimate at its true value the personal influence of Dieterich