NOTES AND NEWS.
Among the papers in the June number of Folk-Lore will be the continuation of "Samoan Tales", by the Hon. J. Abercromby; a number of South African tales by the Rev. James Macdonald; "The Sin Eater", by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland; and "The Christmas Tree", by Prof. Tille, of Glasgow.
Our subject is becoming recognised as a science by men of science. In his recently published Grammar of Science, Prof Karl Pearson places Folk-lore in its due place in the classification of the sciences, along with psychology and other of the so-called "moral sciences".
Mr. W. W. Newell gives in the current number of the Journal of the American Folk-lore Society a report on the recent Congress, giving a careful and unbiassed résumé of the chief papers read, etc. In a further "Note" on the matter, he expresses the opinion that the next Congress will take place on the Continent. It is to be hoped that this does not definitely exclude a meeting at the World's Fair in Chicago next year.
One of the oldest members of the Folk-lore Society, Mr. Andrews, has collected the folk-lore of the Riviera, and published it in French.
The first volume of the Denham Tracts is all in type, and will be shortly issued to members as the volume for 1891. The second volume is also progressing.
