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��CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF - FOLK-LORE RELATING TO WOMEN. 1

Since the establishment of the Journal of American Folk-Lore, in 1888, the literature of the subject has vastly increased, but no more than the interest of women in this branch of science.

A complete bibliography of folk-lore relating to women would be a task beyond the present intention of the writer, whose aim is to give a selection of titles from the literature of the last ten years. Books and reprints alone have been considered, the articles in peri- odicals being left for future enumeration and discussion.

1. [Andersen, Hans C.]. La mere: conte de Hans Christian Andersen en 22 langues. St. Petersbourg, 1894. This tale, so often translated, is the woman's tale par excellence of Andersen.

2. d'Avril, A. Les femmes dans l'epopee iranique. Paris, 1888. i6mo.

3. Bacon, Alice M. Japanese Girls and Women. London, 1891. 330 pp. 8°.

4. Bartels, Max. Die Medicin der Naturvolker: Ethnologische Beitrage zur Urgeschichte der Medicin. Leipzig, 1893. 361 S. 8°. Contains passim notes about women doctors and magicians.

5. Bergen, Fanny D. Current Superstitions, collected from the Oral Traditions of English-speaking Folk in America. With Notes, and an Introduction by W. W. Newell. Boston, 1896. viii, 161 pp. 8°. Contains very many items relating to womanhood, household superstitions, " signs," etc.

6. Bernhoft, Franz. Verwandtschaftsnamen und Eheformen der nordamerikanischen Volksstamme. Rostock, 1888.

7. Boas, Franz. The Social Organization and the Secret Socie- ties of the Kwakiutl Indians. [From the Report of the U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1895, pp. 311-737.] Washington, 1897. This exhaustive study contains many items of legend and folk-lore relating to mar- riage, women's societies and ceremonials, women's songs, etc.

8. Bolton, Mrs. H. I. The Madonna of St. Luke : the Story of a Portrait. With an Introductory Letter by Daniel Huntington. New York, 1895. x, 127 pp. i6mo. Treats of the legends concerning St. Luke as the painter of a portrait of the Virgin Mary.

9. Bramhall, Mae St. John. The Wee Ones of Japan. New York, 1894. 137 pp. i2mo. Contains pas s im items of woman-lore.

10. von Brandt, M. Sittenbilder aus China: Madchen und Frauen. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des chinesischen Volkes. Stuttgart, 1895. 8°.

1 Paper presented before the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Folk- Lore Society, at Columbia University, New York, December 29, 1898.

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