NOTES AND NEWS.
Among forthcoming articles will be one by Hon. J. Abercromby, on the Marriage Customs of the Moravians; to be followed by others on the Marriage Customs of the Early Russians and in the Caucasus, by Prof. Kowalwsky; and the same among the Chinese, by Mr. Lockhart.
The Book of English Fairy Tales, by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, which is now almost ready, will have some folk-lore notes of interest, giving parallels to the tales, and discussing special points in them.
Mr. W. A. Clouston is preparing a third and supplementary volume of his “Popular Tales and Fictions”.
Mr. C. G. Leland has in the press a work on Gipsy Charms and Incantations.
Ar last Germany is to have a Folk-Lore Society, not-withstanding Professor Weinhold’s scathing remarks on the subject in the Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie. Dr. Veckenstedt is interesting himself in the Society, which will publish a Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, quarterly. We give the new venture a friendly “Hoch!”
Mr. William George Black’s volume on “Folk-medicine: a Chapter in the History of Culture”, published by the Folk-Lore Society in 1883, has been translated into Spanish by Sn. Dn. Antonio Machado y Alvarez. (Madrid, El Progresso Editorial, 1889, 8vo., pp. xiii, 361). Both Mr. Black and the Folk-Lore Society may feel much complimented by Spanish appreciation of their work.
