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64 the latter part of the subject in his many valuable notes on A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mr. Lee hopes that the book may be published early in 1883.

At the Antiquarian Congress at Cassel, which took place from the 27th to the 30th August, a resolution was adopted impressing on historical societies the advantage to antiquarian research of the collection of the Volkslieder (or popular songs) of their respective districts.

The year's Proceedings of the Portuguese Folk-Lore Society have been issued by Clavel, of Oporto. The Book is edited by Senhor J. Leite de Vasconcellos, who published not long since an interesting study of the folk-lore of his native country, called Tradicoes populares de Portugal.

Mr. G. L. Gomme, F.S.A., and Mr. H. B. Wheatley, F.S.A., intend to publish a set of chap-books and folk-lore tracts. The editors propose to reprint in chap-book form, with outline representations of the quaint woodcuts, the earliest editions at present known of these fugitive though not forgotten pieces of a dead literature. Each tract will be complete in itself, and will have a short prefatory note, giving as much bibliographical and folk-lore information as may be necessary to confirm its value. The subscription for a series of tracts is one guinea. When the first is issued a second will be prepared. Subscribers need only subscribe for a single series, but they will have the option of subscribing for the others as they appear. The following will form the first series, and will be ready early this year: "The Seven Wise Masters of Rome," edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde, circa 1505; "The Antient, True, and Admirable History of Patient Grisel," a seventeenth century edition; "The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift," printed for W. Thackeray; "The History of Mother Bunch of the West," a seventeenth century edition; "The Famous and Remarkable History of Sir Richard Whittington," a seventeenth century edition. Among those which it is proposed to print in succeeding series will be: "The Seven Champions of Christendom," "The Right Pleasant and Variable History of Fortunatus," "Jack and the Giants," "Tom Thumb," "The Wise Men of Gotham," "Guy of Warwick," "Bevis of Hamton," "Academy of Complements," and "Round about our Coal Fire."