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within reasonable limits such an enormous mass of classified material. It is a monument of painstaking industry like Higgins' Anacalypsis or Donnelly's Atlantis and Kagnarok. No one interested in symbolism can afford to neglect it, and it should appeal alike to seekers after something new by its startling speculations, and to serious students as a quarry of laboriously- accumulated facts.

IsLANDiCA. An Annual relating to Iceland and the Fiske Ice- landic Collection in Cornell University Library. Vol. V. Bibliography of the Mythical-Heroic Sagas. By Halldor Hermannssox. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Univ. Lib., 1912. Pp. ix-f-73.

The very useful bibliography of Icelandic material issued by the Cornell University Library is continued in this volume, which adds the legendary sagas to the Icelandic, Greenland, and Norse historical sagas, and the Laws, dealt with in the previous volumes. These Fornaldar Sogur, belonging to the decadence of saga- writing, contain a large spurious romantic element ; but there is much genuine mythological material to be sifted out, and the tales of foreign origin often provide interesting variants. The bibliography is very thorough, and the arrangement admirably clear. L. W. F.

Ethnography (Tribes and Castes). By Sir Athelstane Baines, (in Griindriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie mid Altertianskiinde). Strassburg : Trubner & Co., 19 12. 8vo, ' pp. 211. I OS. >i.

Life in Ancient India in the Age of the Mantras. By P. T. Srinivas Iyengar. Madras : Srinivasa Varadachari, 1912. Sm. 8vo, pp. x-h 140. 2s. 6d.

Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahanirvana Tantra). A Trans, from the Sanskrit, with Intro, and Comm. By A. AvALON. Luzac cS: Co., 191 3. 8vo, pp. cxlvi -1- 360. I OS. n.