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Rh originally published in 1858; 57 from a MS. collection formed by Professor Valjavec as a supplement to the above-named work; the remainder from the printed collections of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Stojanovics and from the MS. collections of Plohl-Herdvigov, P. Löw and the author himself. Hitherto Karadzic's Servian folk-tales, translated into German by his daughter, has been the only South Slavonic collection accessible to the majority of students, by whom Dr. Kraus' volume will therefore be heartily welcomed.

A careful and exhaustive survey of the survivals of heathen beliefs and practices in the ceremonies and observances of the Christian Church.

The first volume of a collection of proverbs, collected from and explained by the people.

The editor has done good service by printing the earliest forms of two legends which, as he shows, are found in the ordinary hagiological collections only in an interpolated and debased shape.

The present volume consists of the course of lectures delivered by the eminent Celtisant at the Collège de France. It is entirely devoted to an examination of the functions and privileges of the three lettered classes which are to be distinguished among the Celts, viz. the Bards, the Druids, and the File. It is needless to say that the author has