The Handbook of Folk-lore is rapidly approaching completion, nearly half the work having been passed for press. The American Society is also preparing a similar set of Notes and Queries.
Preliminary arrangements have been entered into with regard to the proposed Congress of Folk-lore, to be held in London in the autumn of 1891.
Prof. T. C. Crane’s edition of the exempla of Jacques de Vitry will probably be issued to the members of the Folk-Lore Society during the coming quarter.
Readers of Folk-Lore are requested to aid towards the completeness of its bibliography by forwarding references or cuttings in English local newspapers and journals that are likely to escape notice, as well as books and pamphlets published in the provinces.
The Tabulation of Folk-tales has reached such a stage that some steps towards a classification are now possible. Miss Roalfe Cox is engaged in putting in order the Cinderella type already classified.
During the past quarter, meetings of the Society were held on March 23, when papers were read by Mr. W. F. Kirby, on The Folk-lore of Beetles, and Dr. M. Gaster, on The Sources of the Holy Grail; on April 27, when papers were read by Mr. G. L. Gomme, on a Tale of Campbell and its Foundation in Usage; by Mr. Alfred Nutt, on Recent Theories on the Nibelungenlied; and by Mr. J. Jacobs, on an Inedited English Folk-tale.
The American Folk-Lore Society has changed presidents at the beginning of this year, Prof. F. J. Child yielding the chair to Mr. D. F. Brinton, the indefatigable student of British ballads to the equally indefatigableereviewer of archaic American mythology.
Communications for the next number should reach the Office of Folk-Lore (270, Strand) before August 1st.
