The recent Oriental Congress had a section devoted to Anthropology, which included Folk-lore.
The death of Mr. W. F. Skene, the late and probably last Historiographer Royal of Scotland, has removed a scholar whose researches in his Celtic Scotland and Four Books of Wales bore directly on some of the most interesting problems of British folk-lore.
Among the books promised in the forthcoming publishing season are Mr. Northall's book on English Folk-Rhymes; Mr. Grant Allen's translation of the Attis of Catullus, with dissertations upon the Myth of Attis, the origin of Tree Worship, and the Galliambic Metre; Prof. Meyer's edition and translation of the twelfth-century Irish wonder-tale, The Vision of MacConglinne; Mrs. Gomme on English Game-Rhymes; Rev. C. Swynerton's Indian Fairy Tales; and Mr. Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. The latter will include some of the Indian originals of Æsop's Fables.
Communications for the next number of Folk-Lore should be sent to the Office, 270, Strand, on or before November 1st, 1892.
