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434 recent Oriental Congress had a section devoted to Anthropology, which included Folk-lore.

death of Mr. W. F. Skene, the late and probably last Historiographer Royal of Scotland, has removed a scholar whose researches in his Celtic Scotland and Four Books of Wales bore directly on some of the most interesting problems of British folk-lore.

the books promised in the forthcoming publishing season are Mr. Northall's book on English Folk-Rhymes; Mr. Grant Allen's translation of the Attis of Catullus, with dissertations upon the Myth of Attis, the origin of Tree Worship, and the Galliambic Metre; Prof. Meyer's edition and translation of the twelfth-century Irish wonder-tale, The Vision of MacConglinne; Mrs. Gomme on English Game-Rhymes; Rev. C. Swynerton's Indian Fairy Tales; and Mr. Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. The latter will include some of the Indian originals of Æsop's Fables.

for the next number of should be sent to the Office, 270, Strand, on or before November 1st, 1892.