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128 Español," in a great measure set on foot a few years ago by Sr. Don. A. Machado y Alvarez.

Shortly will be published Greek Folk-Songs, from the enslaved provinces of Greece. Literal and metrical translations, by Lucy M. J. Garnett; revised and edited, with an Introduction and Annotations, by John S. Stuart-Glennie, M.A. These translations by Miss Garnett, who has resided for many years in the Levant, are so selected and arranged as to give a comprehensive view of all classes of Greek folk-songs. These, like folk-songs generally, fall into three great natural divisions—(I.) Mythological, (II.) Domestic, and (III.) Historical, and, thus arranged, a systematic view is given of the whole life of the people, so far as it is expressed in their songs.

In the last number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, just to hand, is a valuable article on "Panjabi Death Customs," by Sirdar Grudyal Singh.

Bible Folk-lore, by the author of Rabbi Jeshua, will presently be published. This work claims to be an original inquiry into the myths and miraculous stories of the Old and New Testament, which are compared throughout with their parallels in the literature of Egypt, Assyria, Phoenicia, Persia, and India (Vedic and Buddhist).

There is in the press a volume of Wide-awake Stories, a collection of tales told by little children, between sunset and sunrise, in the Panjab and Kashmir, by F. A. Steel and R. C. Temple. In this book are collected together, in a literary form, adapted to the use of both adults and children, the folk-tales published by the authors from time to time during the last four or five years in the Indian Antiquary. An introduction will be given to the book explaining (inter alia) the method of collection pursued by the authors, and it will be published with explanatory notes and an index.

We are glad to see that Mélusine is to reappear, the first number of the second volume being announced for the 5th April next, to be followed by monthly issues on the first of each month. British subscribers are requested to remit their subscription by an international money order to Monsieur A. F. Staude, manager of Mélusine, 6, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, Paris. They can also subscribe through a bookseller.