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Bihlioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Espanolas. Tom. ii. and iii. Director : Antonio Machado y Alvarez. Madrid : Libreria de Fernando Fe, Carrera San Jeronimo, 2. 1884.

The two Tolumes of this series now published are as valuable as the first. Vol. ii. contains three articles, " El Folk-lore de Madrid," por Eugenio de Olavarria y Huarte ; " Juegos infantiles do Extre- madura," recogidos y anotados por Sergio Hernandez de Soto, to tho number of sixty-one. This article is continued in vol. iii. to the number of eighty, including variants. The game-rhymes as well as the descriptions of the games are given. The third article is " De los malificios y los demonios," de Fr. Juan Nyder, siglo XV. Obra vertida del latin al castellano, por J. M. Montoto, which is continued in vol. iii. Besides these two continuations, vol. iii. contains a valu- able article, " El Mito del Basilisco," por Alejandro Guichot y Sierra, in which all that is known concerning this creature is collected, and arranged in a very interesting way. It is illustrated by a plate of the animal. It is hardly necessary to say that all folk-lorists should possess themselves of this series, both on account of the sterling worth of the books themselves, and for the purpose of helping the Spaniards in the good cause which they have taken up with such spirit, and which they are caiTying out with such energy. Other volumes of the series, equally important, are in the press. Jogos e Rimas, Bihliotheca d*educacao nacional. Publicada por F. Adolpho Coelho. Porto : Livraria Universal de Magalhaes & Moniz, editores, 12, Largo dos Loyos.

This is an exceedingly interesting collection of Portuguese children's games and rhymes for tho use of schools. It is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when folk-tales, children's games, and rhymes will be taken advantage of as a means of education to a far greater extent than they have hitherto been. Children delight in them. AVhy not use them, and turn them to the training of the young, and thus break, if nothing else is done, the monotony of the school-book and school-drill ? A good beginning has been made in this little book.