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 340 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.viii.ArRiL23,i02i. politics. In ' Benedetto Croce : a Literary Critic ' Mr. G. L. Bickersteth has a subject of real import- ance to literature, and handles it with discrimina- tion though it strikes us that some objections might have been pressed further home. Mary Maxwell Moffat relates effectively the tragic story of Eleonora Fonseca, that remarkable woman who played a considerable part in the abortive Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. Dr. Charles's new edition of 'the Apocalypse of St. John, with its manifold claim to the considera- j tion of critics, is carefully studied by the Rev. C. j W. Emmet, and the late Prof. Hume Brown's ' Life of Goethe ' completed by Lord Haldane, j is well discussed by Mr. G. P. Gooch. Admiral ; Hopwood's article, ' The Saving Grace,' is not strictly within our scope, being chiefly concerned with the spirit of the Navy, but we mention it ! partly for the sake of the old tradition to which it gives expression, partly for its containing : several fine old sea stories. The Antiquaries Journal, Vol. I., No. 1. (Oxford University Press, 5s. net.) THE second number of this Journal makes a worthy successor to the first. It is largely concerned with excavation and the results thereof thus the Engravings upon Flint Crust at Grime's Graves (Mr. Leslie Armstrong) ; Frilford (Mr. Dudley Buxton) ; Swedish Palaeo- lithic Implements (M. Oscar Montelius) ; and discoveries at Amesbury (Sir Lawrence Weaver). Mr. Rawlence and Mr. Major discuss the question of the site of the Battle of Ethandun, and Mr. Reginald A. Smith contributes a paper on Irish gold crescents. Folk-Lore. March, 1921. (William Glaisher, 6s. 6d.) THE learned and deeply interesting Presidential Address by Dr. Rivers bearing the title ' Con- servatism and Plasticity ' is devoted to the relation between folk-lore and psychology. He takes for his immediate subject the influences which, in Melanesia, have produced variety in the modes of disposal of the dead. Mr. Werner contributes ' Some Notes on Zulu Religious Ideas,' and Mr. Colic ott gives us copious ' Legends from Tonga.' Mr. Sidney Hartland draws attention to the study of Catalan folk-lore which is being started at Barcelona by Dr. Carreras i Artan, Professor of Ethics in that city. The reviews, as usual, are a feature of distinct interest. A Manual of Lu-Qanda. By W. A. Crabtree. (Cambridge University Press, 12s. 6d. net.) THIS is another member of the useful series of Cambridge Guides to Modern Languages. It consists of a carefully compiled Grammar, followed by a Lu-Ganda-English vocabulary. The chap- j ters on Grammar contain exercises for transla- I tion headed by lists of words on the old-fashioned j plan ; we should have liked in addition a crib by which the learner might have worked out the trans- lations more readily. The avoidance of a crib has little meaning in the case of adult students. A knowledge of Lu-Ganda is valuable on the same grounds as a knowledge of Latin ; it gives one the key to a group of connected languages the Bantu. Mr. Crabtree even considers that it would be easier to learn Swahili from Lu-Ganda, than vice versa. A language without a litera- ture though, under European influence, a good deal has been done in the way of collecting folk- tales and in the composition of history and re- ligious commentary Lu-Ganda, it seems, is dependent for its survival largely upon the interest and the feeling for language, as such, of the foreign student. This Manual, which is not only lucid and thorough, but pleasantly written and per- vaded by an evident appreciation of the charm of Bantu, will certainly stimulate such study. It is based upon the ' Handbook of Luganda,' by the late G. L. Pilkington, which was published in 1891 the most complete English work on the subject which has hitherto appeared. Mr. Crabtree's Introduction, with its brief statement of the educational and industrial situation in Uganda is good reading. to EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' ''' Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.G. 4; corrected proofs to The Editor, ' N. & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, B.C. 4. 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