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 of the local hand-industries and an industrial museum, under the influence of Dr. Sohnrey and of the Swedish models. The reviewer points out in the course of his remarks that the poems of Wos Budzysz, the Kaszub pseudonymous poet, and the designs of the peasant art-industries show very close analogies to those of Bohemia, and in any case deserve a place of their own in the Slavonic world. The whole population is now provided with a house-industry for the winter, all handed down by actual tradition and enlivened and helped by the Museum. The reviewer is the phonetist Frinta, a Bohemian, who had studied the Kaszubs and Slovintzes in their own country.

11. BoziBoží [sic] dar Gift of God, is a name for bread, in general, but the diminutive here, when not applied (a rare practice) to human beings, implies special bakings of cakes or the like for the great seasons, the solstices, the coming of (or invitation to) spring, now become the Church ales, weddings, christenings and the like. These are connected with practices like the "dziady" of Lithuania and Poland and other customs of making offerings to the dead. The pagan origin and the peculiar Slavonic form of these customs, as to which Vykoukal says that the Honák woman "makes poetry in pastry," is shown and suggested, while the ritual character of these practices is proved by the fixture of certain patterns to certain festivals and the like. A detailed illustration is afforded, with excellent pictures, by the second article, on those cakes made for Palm Sunday, by Rozum.

12. The houses described are in Veletiny, Moravia, and a ground-plan of each type is given besides views of the outside and inside. The author refers to the second volume of his work. The Life of the Ancient Slavs, for evidence against the assertions of the German investigators, who describe it as the "Frankish" or "Upper German" type, and say that this has utterly superseded the original Slavonic type. To those who wish to study the article, the following glossary will give the minimum necessary to the understanding of the plans and sketches. Jizba=house-place, in old English phrase, or room. This is the living room, with a stove and oven in the corner communicating with the other room. Pec=oven. A=and. KamnyKamna [sic]=storestove [sic]. OhnistěOhniště [sic]=fireplace or hearth. Síň=hall, entrance-hall. Komora (from Lat.