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332 detailed reply to single points in Herr Blau's paper. The Čech lace-makers sometimes used Western, sometimes Slavonic methods.

8. This makes a rather severe attack on the Peisker school of theorists, who endeavour to derive all the words of the Slavonic languages dealing with "Kultur" from Germanic, and reduces the list to twenty-two! Some of these actually came through Latin {krâl, korol, from Carolus and so from Karl, I notice among them). As the reviewer points out, he goes rather too far at times, and words like duma must be recognized as Teutonic. This does not in the least preclude the reviewer from recommending the book and approving its thesis that the borrowings, even if they were much more extensive than the wildest claims made, would not prove the superiority of Germanic culture.

I might add that the borrowing of the English word Company by an African tribe for the purpose of rendering the concept "swindle, cheat," does not make me very proud or elated.

9. A long Review of the Studio Monographs on Peasant Art in Austria. Naturally certain painful inaccuracies in Part I. are pointed out, due to the unavoidable use by its authoress of German sources.

In arranging the pictures great mistakes are reported, and the unfortunate use of artificial (and little understood) political boundaries is noted. Bohemia is badly represented and robbed of many of its own products. Galicia is nothing like as well represented as it should be; only one type of its varied architecture is given.

The Hungarian part is inaccurate in that it attributes everything to the Magyars, regardless of its true racial origin and of its connection with the Cisleithan provinces. It might have been as good as their Peasant Art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland, 1910.

10. First a summary of the contents of the Kaszub number of Ziemia, then an account of a book by a Germanized Kaszub (Ernst Seefried-Gulgowski), with a preface by Professor Sohnrey, whose studies in Kaszub folklore brought him into trouble with the Ostmarkenverein. It is given a very detailed notice, but as in German needs no further summary here. The same author wrote a book, Kaschubische Hausindustrie, which is noticed here also. His wife, a noted artist, Th. Gulgowski-Fethke, started a revival