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Löwis (A. von), of Menar. Der Held im deutschen und russischen Märchen.—Maeterlinck (L.), Les Péchés primitifs.Rocznik polskiego Towarzystva krajoznawczego.
Supplement: Kubín as usual.
Nos. 9, 10.November, December, 1914.
Poledne (F.), Bohemian Children's Popular Counting-out Rhymes and their Analogies in the Traditions of the Germans and Poles.
Černík (J.). Hosasisa.
Reviews:
Sébillot (P.), Le Folklore.Pomorze Kaszubskie; Zeszyt monograficzny "Ziemi."—Materiyali do Ukrainsky etnologii. X.
Supplement: Kubín as usual.
Year 9.No. 1.January, 1914.
Boháč (A.), Studies in Demography.
Reviews:
Abt (A.), Die volkskundliche Literatur des Jahres 1911.—Sochineniya Mikhaila Dmitrievicha Chulkova.—Pyesni Russkikh Sektantov Mistikov.
Supplement: Kubín as usual.—End of Text, with Bibliography.

[More detailed Notes on above.]

1. This is supplementary to a work by Černík on the songs of the Moravian miners generally. He gives specimens to illustrate the special characteristics of the several classes of miners. The Slovaks of Zitkova have a special relation to nature and their fellow-citizens, and their songs show the intimacy of the former, and are in form and character such as to recall the chastushki of the Russian factory hands. There is a musical analysis also. This folk music has the right to appear in the concert rooms.

2. This review deals especially with the tale of the gnat who died of a fall from an oak and was magnificently buried, supplying further variants in their Slavonic literatures, e.g. Bohemian and