NOTES AND NEWS.
Among the papers in the next number of Folk-Lore will be one by Mr. G. L. Gomme, on a Tale of Campbell; another by Mr. Frazer on Some Popular Superstitions of the Ancients; one by Mr. S. Schechter on an unpublished Jewish Legend of Solomon; one by Mr. Joseph Jacobs on Types and Incidents in European Folk-tales, and Mr. Alfred Nutt’s Report on Recent Celtic Research; besides the papers read at the last meeting of the Folk-Lore Society.
A series of papers on mediæval notions of Hell will
probably be begun in the next issue, and will include papers
on the Celtic, mediæval Jewish and Christian, and the
Arabic phases of the subject.
The Islay Association have determined to issue, through
Mr. Alexander Gardiner, the first two volumes of the late
J. F. Campbell’s Popular Tales of the West Highlands,
which have been long out of print. It would be well if
they could see their way to adding a translation of Dr. R.
Köhler’s valuable annotations on the stories which appeared
in the second volume of Orient und Occident.
Mr. Gomme has written a volume on the Village Com-
munity for the Contemporary Science Series now being
published by Mr. Walter Scott, under the editorship of Mr.
Havelock Ellis. Mr. Gomme’s volume will be of interest
to fork-lorists, because he uses some of the results of folk-
lore to prove that the English village community is not
simply an economical institution, but one which contained
much of the old tribal religion.
