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 192 thirsty when tinged with gold. The common saying is that the sun, when he seeks his kingdom, expects to find forty loaves prepared by his mother to appease his hunger after his long day's journey. Woe to her if these loaves are not ready. The sun eats his brothers, sisters, father, and mother in his wrath. "He has been eating his mother is said when he rises red in the morning. But Mr. Bent's volume is crowded with matters of interest like these. The modern Greek idea of death is distinctly pagan, and his method of lamentation is remarkably like much that one reads of among modern savage races. Charon is to-day a synonym for death. We should like to see a scientific folk-lorist take this book up and work from it the important lessons it contributes. Mr. Bent would have greatly aided this proposal if he had only given us an index.

The death of Mr. J. F. Campbell, the well-known collector of Highland Tales, took place on Feb. 17th last. His loss to folk-lorists is very great.

Mr. William George Black lectured on January 26th on "Folk-Lore" to the Brown Institute at Galston, in Scotland.

The Annual Meeting of the Society will, it is hoped, be held during the month of April, or, perhaps, May.

Mr. Black is engaged upon a work which he will entitle Man and Thought. It takes up some of the subjects treated of in his Folk-Medicine; and will attempt to grapple with some of the most curious problems in the science of folk-lore. A leaflet from Mr. Black's book appears in the April number of The Antiquary, and it treats of "Cannibalism and Sacrifice."

Mr. Edward Clodd has nearly finished a book on Myths and Dreams.