three types that make up the population of Greenland, and to offer as representative a selection as possible from the annals of their abundant folk-lore. Save for what in the pursuance of this plan has been left out, and in one or two cases transposed, the author's text remains practically untouched.
I regret that there exist no portraits of the last of the East Greenlanders, but Count Harald Moltke was not with Mr. Rasmussen during his stay among them.
Whether this little book will meet with the appreciation the devoted efforts of its author and artist deserve I cannot tell, but it is with the hope that it may please what is perhaps the most critical audience in the world, that it has been launched on the troubled waters of English publicity.
G. HERRING.
- London, April 1908.
