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originally published in 1858; 57 from a MS. collection formed by Professor Valjavec as a supplement to the above-named work; the remainder from the printed collections of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Stojanovics and from the MS. collections of Plohl-Herdvigov, P. Löw and the author himself. Hitherto Karadzic's Servian folk-tales, translated into German by his daughter, has been the only South Slavonic collection accessible to the majority of students, by whom Dr. Kraus' volume will therefore be heartily welcomed.

Ueberreste Germanischen Heidenthums im Christenthum, oder die Wochentage, Monate und Christlichen Feste etymologisch, mythologisch, symbolischi, und historisch, erklart von K. A. Oberle. Baden Baden 1883. viii. 172 pp.

A careful and exhaustive survey of the survivals of heathen beliefs and practices in the ceremonies and observances of the Christian Church.

Proverbes et Dictons du Peuple Arabe. Matériaux pour servir à la connaissance des dialectes vulgaires, recueillis, traduits et annotés par C. Landberg. Vol. i. Province de Syrie. Leiden and Paris 1883. 8vo. xlviii. 458 pp.

The first volume of a collection of proverbs, collected from and explained by the people.

Les Deux Saints Caradec. Legendes Latines inédites, avec introduction et notes critiques par A. de la Borderie. Paris 1883. 8vo. 30 pp.

The editor has done good service by printing the earliest forms of two legends which, as he shows, are found in the ordinary hagiological collections only in an interpolated and debased shape.

Introduction à l'Etude de la Literature Celtique, par H. d'Arbois de Jubainville. Vol. i. Paris 1883. 8vo. 401 pp.

The present volume consists of the course of lectures delivered by the eminent Celtisant at the Collège de France. It is entirely devoted to an examination of the functions and privileges of the three lettered classes which are to be distinguished among the Celts, viz. the Bards, the Druids, and the File. It is needless to say that the author has