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Local folk-lore has several thousand volumes and pamphlets, German being particularly strong. Other subjects of note are ballads (a very large collection), fables, proverbs, gipsies, saints' lives, and mediæval romances and legends. There is an excellent Faust collection, including many German and Dutch chap-books. "Tyll Eulenspiegel" and the "Seven Wise Masters," "Rübezahl" and the Norse sagas, should also be mentioned. On witchcraft there is less material, but there are some rare and early works, and pamphlets infrequently met with, especially in German. Alchemy and astrology have not been purchased to any large extent. The collection on the American Indians has developed recently. There are also, of course, books on plant and animal lore and other similar matters, and a number of chap-books and broadside ballads.

Much in the other parts of the collection will also be of interest. Oriental literature is perhaps the most notable feature, Sanscrit, Arabic, and Persian books being very numerous. In all, a hundred and forty languages from all parts of the world are represented in the collection. Some of the other features are Oriental history, especially that of India; medieval literature, present in great abundance (except that purely linguistic material and the philological journals have not, as a rule, fallen within the scope of the collection); archæology, chiefly Asiatic, including a long series of the publications of the Archæological Survey of India and neighboring countries; Assyriology; Egyptology (all the principal archæological series being available); Mexican and Maya picture-writing; Western editions of works on China and Japan; early Irish and Welsh literature, ethnology, and early travel, a number of the geographical publishing societies having been added of late. Finally, in catalogues of manuscripts in European and Oriental libraries, the White collection stands among the first three or four in the country.

While no printed lists are in existence, any desired book can be found readily, and loans will gladly be made. Applications should be made, if possible, through the library of the institution with which the applicant is connected; those not in a position to comply with this rule should state their case. The period for which books are loaned is ordinarily two weeks, with the privilege of renewal for two weeks more; but other arrangements may be made if need warrants. All communications should be addressed to the Librarian, Public Library, Cleveland, O.

ALABAMA FOLK-LORE.-At a meeting of the English Teachers' Association held at Birmingham, Ala., April 7, 1916, Professor N. I. White read a paper on the collection of folk-lore, which contained "The Yankee Soldier," Negro songs heard on a farm in Alabama, "Simon Slick," a hunting-song from Alabama, Negro hymns, and "Sistah Mary Wove Three Links of Chain." These are published in the "Official Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Convention of the Alabama Educational Association" (Birmingham, 1916), 35: 119-126.

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HE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE (Quarterly Editor, Franz Boas), issued by the American Folk-Lore Society, is designed for the collection and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American Continent. The subscription price is three dollars per annum.

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The American Folk-Lore Society was organized January 4, 1888. holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read. membership fee is three dollars. Members are entitled to receive The Journal of American Folk-Lore. Subscribers to the Journal, or other persons interested in the objects of the Society, are eligible to membership, and are requested to address the Permanent Secretary to that end.

Authors alone are responsible for the contents of their papers.

Officers of the American Folk-Lore Society (1917).

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Councillors. For three years: R. B. Dixon, E. Sapir, A. L. Kroeber. years: Phillips Barry, C.-M. Barbeau, A. M. Espinosa. For one year: B. Laufer, E. K. Putnam, Stith Thompson. Past Presidents: H. M. Belden, John A. Lomax, Pliny Earle Goddard. Presidents of Local Branches: Charles Peabody, A. M. Tozzer, E. C. Perrow, Miss Mary A. Owen, Haywood Parker, Reed Smith, Clyde C. Glasscock, John M. Stone, John Harrington Cox.

Editor of Journal. - Franz Boas, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

Permanent Secretary. - Charles Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.

Assistant Secretary. — A. V. Kidder, Cambridge, Mass.

Treasurer. Alfred M. Tozzer, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Auditing Committee. — Roland B. Dixon, A. V. Kidder.

Officers of Local and State Branches and Societies.

BOSTON. President, Charles Peabody; First Vice-President, A. V. Kidder; Second Vice-President, Helen Leah Reed; Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Courtney; Treasurer, Samuel B. Dean.

CAMBRIDGE. - President, A. M. Tozzer; Vice-President, Mrs. E. F. Williams; Treasurer, Carleton E. Noyes; Secretary, Mrs. W. Scudder.

KENTUCKY. - President, E. C. Perrow; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Ewing Marshall, Miss Alice A. Cassity; Secretary, D. L. Thomas; Treasurer, John F. Smith.

MISSOURI. President, Miss Mary A. Owen; Vice-Presidents, Miss Lucy R. Laws, Mrs. Eva W. Case, Miss Jennie M. A. Jones, Mrs. Edward Schaaf; Secretary, H. M. Belden; Treasurer, C. H. Williams; Directors, A. E. Bostwick, Miss Jennie F. Chase, Leah R. C. Yoffie.

NORTH CAROLINA. - President, Frank C. Brown.

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Haywood Parker; Secretary and Treasurer,

Secretary, George F. Will.

NORTH DAKOTA. SOUTH CAROLINA. President, Reed Smith; Vice-President, Henry C. Davis; Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Cappelmann.

TENNESSEE. Secretary, Henry M. Wiltse.

TEXAS.- President, Dr. Clyde C. Glasscock; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Adele B. Looscan, W. S. Hendrix; Secretary, W. P. Webb; Treasurer, Stith Thompson; Councillors, Mrs. Lillie T. Shaver, L. W. Payne, Jr., Miss Dorothy Scarborough. VIRGINIA. - President, John M. Stone; Vice-President, Miss Martha M. Davis; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter A. Montgomery; Archivist, C. Alphonso Smith. WEST VIRGINIA. - President and General Editor, John Harrington Cox; VicePresident, Robert Allen Armstrong; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Barnes.

Entered as second-class matter, July 6, 1911, at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Titlepage, Contents, and Index to Volume XXX will be issued with the first number of 1918.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS NUMBER.

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American Anthropologist, New Series.

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
Baessler-Archiv, Supplement.

British Association for the Advancement of Science,
Reports.

Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Publications of the Carnegie Institution.
Contributions to North American Ethnology.
Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology.
Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological
Series.

Geological Survey of Canada, Anthropological Series.
H. R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha.
Journal of American Folk-Lore.

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland.

Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.
Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society.

Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of
Natural History.

Publications of the American Ethnological Society.
E. Petitot, Traditions du Canada nord-ouest.

S. T. Rand, Legends of the Micmac.

Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Frank Russell, Explorations in the Far North (University of Iowa, 1898).

Franz Boas, Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas.

.Transactions of the Canadian Institute.

. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology.

UPenn. . . . University of Pennsylvania, The University Museum Anthropological Publications.

VAEU . . . . Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthro

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.Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van
Wetenschappen te Amsterdam.

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