NOTES AND NEWS.
Among the articles of the next number will be the concluding article of the Hon. J. Abercromby on "Magic Songs of the Finns"; an article by Mr. W. H. D. Rouse on "The First of May"; and on Mr. Gomme's "Ethnology in Folk-lore", by Mr. Joseph Jacobs. The further returns on "First-Foot" are also held over to the December number, which concludes the third volume of Folk-Lore.
The Chicago Folk-lore Society has started with much energy. It has already issued a Manual of Folk-lore, mainly compiled from the Society's Handbook; and also the first number of the Folk-Lorist, their official organ.
It is proposed to hold a Folk-lore Congress at Chicago during the World's Fair next July. The local Folk-lore Society have taken up the idea with energy, and there seems no reason why American folk-lorists should not meet, and other folk-lorists send papers, though it is unlikely that the Congress will be in any other way International.
The Denham Tracts, vol. i, containing local rhymes and traditions of the North Countrie, has been issued to members of the Folk-lore Society, as the extra volume for 1891.
The Transactions of the Folk-lore Congress of 1891 are now all in print, and the volume will shortly be in the subscribers' hands. The Folk-lore Society have made themselves responsible for the volume, so that it is eminently desirable that each member of the Society should subscribe for it before its issue, as the price will be raised on publication. At present, the subscription-price is half-a-guinea.
