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NOTICES AND NEWS.

thirteen brothers—Stupid Peter—The magic pot and the magic ball—The shepherd and the dwarfs—How a shepherd became rich—The three boxes—For one krenzer a hundred—The goat and the ant—The wild cat of the forest—The stolen princess—The wonderful deliverance—The outcast son—The two sisters—Moriandle and Sugarkandle—The three eggs—The wondrous tree—The seven roes—The dwarf delivered—Besom-cast, Brush-cast, Comb-cast—The sounding tree—The cobbler's two sons—One strikes twelve, twelve strike nine-and-forty—Hans guesses riddles—The three millers—The three tasks—Piping Hans—Mr. Cluck—Hans with the goitre—The king does not believe everything—The present of the wind—The fisher's son—The Judas she-devil—The three white doves—The maiden of the crystal mountain—How Hans finds his wife—The drummer—The fairest bride—The accursed garden The enchanted sleep—The three princesses—The suitor—The mouth-cure—The bead-merchant—They dance to the pipe—The hopping night-cap—Sepple with the golden hair.


Captain R. C. Temple will publish shortly a Dictionary of Hindustani Proverbs, including many Marwari, Panjabi, Maggah, Bhojpuri, and Tirhuti Proverbs, by the late S. W. Fallon, Ph.D., Halle. "Dr. Fallon's collection of proverbs . . . . will be of immense use to European officials, as teaching them the real people's speech and opening up to them the hitherto sealed book of the native mind. If a young civilian had such a collection put before him on his arrival here, instead of the nauseous rubbish of the Prem Sāgar and Bāg-o-Bahār, he would come to know as much about the language in a year as is now ordinarily known even by the best scholars in ten or fifteen years."—John Beames. It is expected that the work will be completed in five parts, to appear as nearly as possible at intervals of two months. Trübner & Co. are the London agents.

Mr. Swainson has sent in his MS. of the "Folk-lore and Provincial Names of British Birds."

A MS. collection of Herefordshire Folk-lore, by the late Reverend Mr. Kilveet, has just been sent to the Honorary Secretary through the kindness of Mr. William Henderson.