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NOTES AND NEWS.


Among the papers to appear in the ensuing numbers of Folk-Lore will be a symposium on "Cinderella", by Messrs. E. Clodd, G. L. Gomme, E. S. Hartland, Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Nutt, and others; Professor Rhys' paper on Manx Folk-Lore, the conclusion of Dr. Gaster's paper on the Holy Grail, Rev. F. Sibree's paper on Malagasy Bird-lore, and Mr. Cecil Smith's Report on Greek Archæology.


Dr. Westermarck's work on the Origin of Marriage will be published by Messrs. Macmillan almost immediately. Mr. Wallace prefaces the volume.


The "Statutory" Ninth International Congress of Orientalists, which is to be held this year from the 1st to the 10th September, has a section on "Comparative Religion, including Mythology and Folk-lore, Philosophy and Law, and Oriental History and Sciences".


Mr. Risley's paper on the progress of Ethnographic Research in India (see Bibliog., s.v. Journal of Anthrop. Institute) urges that custom should be henceforth used as a means of research. Mr. Risley, however, does not seem to be aware of the Folk-Lore Society's Handbook, as he recommends the use of the Anthropological Notes and Queries, a very excellent but now somewhat obsolete volume, which is, besides, out of print.


Two new volumes of Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition will be published almost immediately. Folk and Hero Tales from Argyllshire, collected, edited, translated,