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1. This is supplementary to a work by Černík on the songs of the Moravian miners generally. He gives specimens to illustrate the special characteristics of the several classes of miners. The Slovaks of Zitkova have a special relation to nature and their fellow-citizens, and their songs show the intimacy of the former, and are in form and character such as to recall the chastushki of the Russian factory hands. There is a musical analysis also. This folk music has the right to appear in the concert rooms.

2. This review deals especially with the tale of the gnat who died of a fall from an oak and was magnificently buried, supplying further variants in their Slavonic literatures, e.g. Bohemian and