The movement for establishing local Folk-lore Committees for each of the English counties has taken great strides. The Committee for Leicestershire and Rutland has been already constituted, and those for Gloucester, Lancashire, Lincoln, Norfolk, and Suffolk are in process of formation.
Besides the local Committees, individual workers are now at work collecting from printed sources the folk-lore of various counties, on the model of Mr. Hartland's collection for Gloucestershire, already issued to members of the Folk-lore Society. Miss Dendy has undertaken Lancashire; Lady Camilla Gurdon and Mr. E. Clodd, Suffolk; Mr. Emslie, Middlesex; Mr. Billson, Leicestershire; and Mr. Gerish, Norfolk.
We have to welcome another Folk-lore Society, and we do so the more readily that it is in an English-speaking country, indeed in a British colony. At a meeting in Montreal, a Canadian Folk-lore Society was formed, with Mr. John Reade, one of the members of the English Society, as the Hon. Secretary.
The Denham Tracts, vol. i, have been passed for press, and will be shortly issued as the remaining part of the Folk-lore Society's publications for 1891.
Covers for Folk-Lore, vol. ii, can be obtained on application to the Publisher, Mr. David Nutt, 270, Strand.
Communications for the next number of Folk-Lore must reach the Office, 270, Strand, on or before August 1st.
