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Rh if his body is found near a lake he fell a victim to an anghisky, and if on the wild mountain to a phooka.

Donegal Reds—Red-headed, that is fiery red girls, seem to be a speciality of the Co. Donegal. Of these they say "they were born with a pig under the bed." This is on account of their peculiar odour at times.

Kissing the Bible.—What is the origin of kissing the Bible in oath-taking? I have noted Dr. Tylor's explanation in his Anthropology, but this does not seem quite complete.

Count Mantica has done excellent service in the cause of folk-lore and folk-wisdom in this work. The work is a collection of all the proverbs regarding the horse in Italian, and is divided into ten sections. Each section is devoted to a particular subject about the horse, such as "Colours and particular marks," "Food," "Management," "Horse and rider," "The ladies and horses," "Metaphorical proverbs." Under each subject the proverbs are arranged in alphabetical order and are numbered from 1 consecutively. They amount to the goodly number of 563, without taking into account those in the Venetian and Frioulan dialects, which bring the number up to 741. The Count intends to carry out the same plan with the proverbs of other nations.

This is the first volume of Bibliotheca Ethnographica Portugueza. The work contains eleven chapters: "Os astros," "Fogo, luz e sombra," "A atmosphera," "A agua," "A terra," "As pedras," "Os metaes," "Os vegetaes," "Os animaes," with an appendix, "O homem e a mulher," with an appendix, and "Seres sobrenaturaes." In each