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sending on his skin and his mind to attack an enemy. The unspoken thought often acts as a charm, and a few characters can hear thoughts but not words. Several mythical beings appear, more or less common in Indian legend, such as the Stone-people, a one-legged monster who wrestles with all comers, and gigantic spirit-forms. One would like to know what relation, if any, exists between the animal characters and Modoc totems.

H. J. Rose.

Short Bibliographical Notices.

2%th Anmial Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington,

191 2. Royal 8vo, pp. 308-Hxxxv. 103 pi. 4-68 figs. This report is mainly concerned with the excavation and history of the Casa Grande and neighbouring ruins in Southern Arizona, but also contains (pp. 42-52) a few Pima stories about a cultus- hero regarded as chief of the Casa Grande and including creation and flood tales.

LArt Rusticpte Francais. U Art Provencal. By C. de Danilo- wicz. Paris: Champion, 1913. 4to, 72 i)p. 111. ifr.

Peasant arts are receiving much attention on the Continent, and folk museums are becoming numerous there. The great Provencal poet who passed away a few weeks ago devoted his Nobel prize to the Aries Museum, and from its contents have been produced the beautiful illustrations in this very cheap account of Provencal peasant art. Amidst the numerous carvings and cultural objects are illustrated masks and figures used at fetes, and there is a short section (xiii.) on amulets and charms. When will our laggard British local museums cease to be gatherings of odds and ends, and become records of local life and art?

Books for Reviciv should be addressed to

The Editor of Folk-Lore,

CO Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson,

3 Adam St., Adelphi, London, W.C.