current in Scotland, compiled by Campbell of Islay's chief fellow-worker. Gives translation of some of the texts in the Leabhar na Feinne not otherwise accessible.—A. N.
FOLK-LORE AND LITERATURE.
Arbois de Jubainville (H. d'). Cours de littérature celtique. Vol. v: L'Epopée celtique en Irlande, vol. i. 8vo. xliv, 536 pp.
Ahrens (K.). Das Buch der Naturgegenstände herausgegeben und übersetzt. 8vo. vii, 84, 71 pp. Kiel: Haessler. (Syriac text and German translation of a popular natural history akin to the "Physiologus".)
Beowulf. The Deeds of Beowulf. An English Epic of the eighth century done into modern prose; with an Introduction and Notes by John Earle. Cr. 8vo. c, 203 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Löseth (E.). Le Roman en prose de Tristan; Le Roman de Palamède; et la compilation de Rusticien de Pise. Analyse critique d'après les MS S. de Paris. 8vo. xxvi, 544 pp. E. Bouillon, 1891.
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symbol characters) A most meritorious piece of work. Does for the Tristan portion of the Arthur cycle what Dr. Sommer has done in the third volume of Malory for the Merlin portion. Indeed, this work and Sommer's Malory allow a fairly complete survey of the whole field of French Arthurian romance.—A. N.
Patzig (H.). Zur Geschichte der Herzmäre. 4to. 22 pp. Berlin: Gaertner, 1891.
Wirth (A.). Danae in christlichen Legenden. 8vo. vi, 160 pp. Vienna: Tempsky.
(symbol characters) The appendix comprises inedited Greek Acts of Saints Barbara and Irene.
FOLK-LORE AND MYTHOLOGY.
Goblet d'Alviella. L'idée de Dieu d'après l'anthropologie et l'histoire (Hibbert Lectures, 1891). 8vo. xiv, 328 pp. F. Alcan.
Groot (J. J. M. de). The Religious System of China. Its ancient forms, evolution, history, and present aspect. Manners, customs, and social institutions connected therewith. Vol. i. Book 1: Disposal of the Dead. Part i. Funeral Rites; Part ii, The Ideas of Resurrection. Roy. 8vo. xxiv, 360 pp. Nine full-page plates and numerous cuts. Leyden.
(symbol characters) The complete work will comprise about fifteen volumes.
Robiou (Félix). La Question des Mythes. I. (Egypte, Assyrie.) 8vo. 90 pp. E. Bouillon.
(symbol characters) A vehement attack on the evolutionist and anthropological theory of the origins of religion.—A. N.
