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 AZOTES AND NEWS.

Among forthcoming papers in the March number of FOLK-LORE will be the President's Annual Address, Mr. Hartland's Report on Folk-tales, continuation of Mr, Dames* Baluchi Tales, a selection of Szekely Tales, and a paper by Mr Joseph Jacobs, " How Folk-lore should not be Compiled."

A plebiscite of the International Folk-lore Council has resulted in a majority of the members declaring in favour of a Congress at Chicago in July 1892, as proposed by the local committee of that city. On the other hand, the Council do not desire that the Chicago Committee shall be for the proposed Congress the Acting Committee of the International Council. As this Council was esta- blished to produce uniformity in successive Congresses, it follows that the present Acting Committee now in London are asked by the Council to settle the general principles on which the proposed Congress should be established. Correspondence to this effect is now being carried on.

The death of Dr. Reinhold Kohler, on last August 15th, removes a folk-lorist of the very first rank. His knowledge of the literature of folk-tales was unique : for nearly twenty years (1869-89), no collection having pretensions to scien- tific thoroughness was considered complete without the addition of Kohler's notes. Those he contributed to Orient und Occident on Campbell, and to Gonzenbach's Sizilianische MahrcJien, are indispensable to the student of folk-tales. Of recent years, he has been of great assistance, both to Prof. Child and Prof Krohn, in two of the most important series of investigations that are at present being under-