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 96 Short Notices.

is valuable as a picture of Hebrew life and thought, and contains some curious facts. Thus, Jewish children in Europe play with the Hanukkah top, on each of the four faces of which is a Hebrew letter — Nun, Gimel, He, Shin — the first letters of the words Isles Gadel Hay oh Sham, " a great wonder was (per- formed) then," when a handful of Asmoneans defeated the hosts of Greece. The owner of the top sets it spinning, and a reward is fixed for each letter which turns up.

HONOURS CONFERRED ON EX- PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY.

During the last year well-deserved honours have been conferred on two ex-Presidents of the Folk-Lore Society. Mr. E. Sidney Hartland has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of St. Andrews ; Dr. R. R. Marett has been elected Membre Correspondant de I'Ecole d'Anthropologie.

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