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 REVIEWS.

SUOMALAISIA Kansansatuja. Finnish Folk-tales, pt. 2. Ki7igly Talcs, vol. i. Helsingfors : 1893, pp. 272.

I OWE an apology to Mr. Karl Krohn for not noticing this v^olume long ago. It arrived when I had a great press of work, and then through inadvertence I neglected to read it. The first part of this series contained the " Animal Stories", which were duly noticed in FoLK-LORE.

This second part contains thirteen tales, with from two to four sub-types for some of them. These are given in full. Then follow 302 variants, either in a curtailed form, or the fact is merely recorded, together with the place where it was collected. The group is termed " kingly", because one of the personages is always of a higher social rank than the narrator ; and in vol. i the motive is the relation betzveen husband and unfe. The titles of the stories in full do not correspond with the headings under which the variants of each are collected. I therefore omit the former and only give the latter, together with Mr. Krohn's abstract of each story-type.

No. I. Nine golden boys. Three sisters — youngest promises king's son nine golden sons — Ogress exchanges them for animals — wife hides one boy — they are sent to sea in cask — reach an island — boy makes dwelling for his mother and bridge to father's castle — fetches his brothers — Ogress is punished. (One story in full, 44 in abstract or on record.)

No. 2. The handles s maiden. Brother marries — wife slanders sister — brother amputates her hands — sister marries king's son — gets golden son — brother's wife falsifies letters — queen with her children sent

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