NOTES AND NEWS.
In the forthcoming number of Folk-Lore will be included the continuation of Mr. Abercromby’s translations of the Magic Charms of the Finns; on the Holy Grail, by Dr. M. Gaster; two new English Fairy Tales, by Mr. E. Clodd; a Report by Mr. Braybrook on Recent Research in Anthropology in its relation to Folk-Lore; besides the contributions already announced.
Prof. M. Kovalefsky will give the Ilchester Lectures this term at Oxford, the subject being “Ancient Law and Modern Custom in Russia”. The first two lectures will deal with “The Matrimonial Customs of the Slavs”.
It is a remarkable sign of the increased interest in folklore that a newly-founded weekly journal of the Tit-Bits type, entitled Good Luck, devotes a special section, with prizes, etc., to Folk-lore; it would be desirable that the editor should consult some experts for this section, which might then be made to yield results valuable to the science.
Our President, Mr. Andrew Lang, is giving a series of three lectures on “The Natural History of Society”, at the Royal Institution.
Mr. E. Sidney Hartland’s book, on the “Folk and Fairy Tales of England”, has appeared in the Camelot Series, and is specially devoted to illustrating the thesis that England is more distinguished for folk-sagas than for fairy tales. It has been preceded in the same series by a similar book on Irish Tales, and will be followed by one on Scotch Fairy Tales.
Our local secretary in China, Mr. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, who is at present in London, is preparing a work on Chinese Folk-lore.
