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Rh does not commit himself to the Oriental origin of these tales. It is obvious to me that they are as much and as little Oriental as the Oriental tales of Voltaire and his imitators.—A. N.]

of the Australasian Association (1891). A. W. Howill, Presidential Address to the Anthropological Section, containing an account of Initiation Ceremonies in New South Wales. John White, a Chapter from Maori Mythology. Rev. J. W. Stack, Notes on Maori Literature.

Traditions populaires de la Haute Saône et du Jura. Square 8vo. 652 pp. Lechevalier.

wiadomości do antropologii Krajowej wydawany staraniem Komisyi antropologicznej akademii umiejetności w Krakowie. Tom. xv. Krakow. 1891. [Collected Reports on Domestic Anthropology (i.e., Anthropology of their own population), issued by the Anthropological Section of the Academy of Sciences at Cracow. Vol. xv.]

Academy, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, 12, 19. "Couvade." The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Letters by Dr. A. H. Murray, Prof. E. B. Tylor, and the Rev. A. L. Mayhew.

American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, 4. S. D. Peet, Idols and Images.

American Anthropologist. J. C. Welling, The Law of Torture: a study in the evolution of law. J. W. Fewkes and A. M. Stephen, The Mam-zrau-di: a Tusayan Ceremony. D. C. Brinton, The Nomenclature and Teaching of Anthropology. J. Mooney, Borrowed Ceremonials.

American Notes and Queries, May 21. Chinese Superstitions.—June 18. Drowning Superstitions.—June 25. Newspaper Slang.

Antiquary, August. R. C. Hope, Holy Wells (cont.).

Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology, vol. ii. ]J. W. Fewkes, A few Summer Ceremonials at the Tusayan Pueblos. J. G. Owens, Natal Ceremonies of the Hopi Indians.

Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxi, 4, May 1892. Rev. B. Banks, Burial Customs of New Britain. Mrs. French-Sheldon, Customs among the Natives of East Africa, from Teita to Kilimegalia, with special reference to their Women and Children. Horatio Hale, M.A., F.R.S.C., Language as a Test of Mental Capacity. [This title gives an inadequate idea of the contents of