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168 to be a changeling, upon the shore, that it might be taken away by the fairies and her own infant restored; and he adds that at the present time a minister on the island has refused to baptise the children of a parishioner because he swears that a woman has bewitched his cows, and abstracted the virtue from the milk.—North British Mail (Glasgow), March 20th, 1883.

The two works of which the titles are given above are the latest additions to Messrs. Maisonneuve's excellent folk-lore library, and are in every way worthy of being placed by the side of the previous volumes. M. Fleury gives a choice of local traditions, folk-tales, folk-songs, with and without music, proverbs and riddles, many of which present new and interesting features. M. Sébillot's work is devoted to proving the traditional existence of Gargantua, and to classifying the facts concerning him which the author has collected from every part of France. M. Sébillot's researches leave little room for doubt as to the genuine folk-character of the traditions about Rabelais' hero.

Folk Tale Tabulation.—Mr. Edward Clodd has undertaken to tabulate Miss Frere's Old Deccan Days, and Miss Stokes's Indian Fairy Tales. The following tabulations have been received: "The Crimson Rock," "Uncle Curro and his Club," "Spirits of the Departed," "Lucifer's Ear," "Dame Fortune and Sir Money," "John Soldier," "Good and Bad Fortune," from Caballero's Cuentos y Poesias Populares Andaluces, by Mr. J. William Crombie; and "The Beautiful Glutton," "The Fairies' Sieve," "The Three Golden Apples," "The Little Convent of Cats," from Tuscan Fairy Tales; "Story of Long Snake," "The Lion and the Ostrich," "Story of Little Red Stomach," and three others without titles from South African Folk-Lore Journal, by Mr. G. L. Apperson.

Messrs G. Bell and Sons have issued the second volume of Stallybrass's translation of Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie.

In Messrs. Macmillan and Go's four-and-sixpenny series will appear a volume of Folk-Tales of Bengal, by the Rev. Lai Behari Day, author of Bengal Peasant Life.