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Solheim's index of Norsk Folkminnelag, covering scores of volumes published by the Norwegian folklore archives.

Motif-index of McKay's More West Highland Tales.

Folktale surveys and monographs in FFCommunications since 1930 — some of prime importance.

Espinosa's new edition of Cuentos Populares Españoles, with extensive notes and motif-indexes.

Dawkins's two important new works on modern Greek tales.

T. P. Cross's monumental Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature, with extensive folktale material.

A group of important monographs on folktales, particularly Dr. Rooth's study of Cinderella and Dr. Roberts's of the Frau Holle tale.

Baughman's study of the British and American folktale — with bibliography of nearly 1,000 titles.

Flowers's motif-index of the tales of the West Indies (200 titles).

The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore — tales and legends indexed by motif.

Halpert's analysis of the folktales of the New Jersey Pines country.

Carrière's collection from the French of Missouri and Sister Marie-Ursule from the Quebec French.

Rael's studies of the Spanish tales of New Mexico.

Klipple's exhaustive treatment of the African tales of European and Asiatic tradition (about 500 titles covered).

Frank Goodwyn's unpublished study of the Pedro de Urdemales cycle in Latin America.

Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads (for narrative motifs).

Many additions to Greek mythology from special studies of the Troy story and from Grote's extensive notes in his History of Greece.

Anton Nyerges's motif-index of Cheremis folktales in Sebeok's Studies in Cheremis Folklore.

(c) The Near East and India

First Edition

Chauvin's Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes — a twelve-volume work analyzing the Arabic collections and those from India and Persia which came into Arabic.

Arabian Nights — some notes from Burton's well-known edition, as well as the summaries from Chauvin, mentioned above.

Penzer's ten-volume Ocean of Story, with its excellent notes and indexes covering the classical Indic collections.

A sampling of the Jewish field in Moses Gaster's Exempla of the Rabbis, in Bin Gorion's Der Born Judas, and in Frazer's Folklore in the Old Testament.

For Buddhistic legend, Cowell's Jātaka (6 volumes), and Chavannes' Cinq cent contes et apologues (4 volumes) — the latter emanating from China.