THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY. Since many folk-lorists in the central part of our country would find Chicago more convenient of access than Cleveland, it seems right to call attention to a collection of books here. The Newberry Library has complete files of most of the chief folk-lore magazines, such as were mentioned as at the Cleveland Public Library in your July issue. The number of books classified under folk-lore is about 1,300; but much associated material may be found in the collections of Mediæval Romances, especially French material, and under early Irish and Welsh literature. The Bonaparte collection in this library has 14,626 titles. It is chiefly concerned with the dialects of Romance and Slavic languages, but contains materials useful to folk-lorists. The Ayer collection of books on American Indians, and on the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, contains 37,075 titles, and is very full on the folk-lore of the native races. Mention should

also be made of the Chinese collection of 21,654 titles in native character. The Newberry Library is not a loan library, but books are sometimes lent to other libraries. I have found the Newberry Library useful for studies in mediæval folk-lore and romance.

COUNTING-OUT Rhyme.

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ARTHUR C. L. BROWN.

A counting-out rhyme new to the writer is in use among the classmates of his son Alfred, at the Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass. The boys are about eleven years old. It runs thus:

"My mother and your mother were hanging out clothes;
My mother gave your mother a punch on the nose.
What color was the blood?"

It is in a way intoned very slowly to the following rhythm:

Outside of its picturesque domestic suggestions, it is chiefly remarkable for its metre; it is evidently based on the catalectic dipodies, trochaic or spondaic as the case may be; e.g.,

"Onery, twoery, threery, Ann,"
"Eeny, meeny, miny, mo."

or

The slowness of the recitation gives quite a nice choriambic effect. I should like to know the distribution of this rhyme and its possible variants.1

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

CHARLES PEABODY, Secretary American Folk-Lore Society.

FOLK-DANCING AND FOLK-SINGING. Even in war time, the researches into the artistic side of American folk-lore, and the practice of the arts of folk-dancing and of folk-singing have not been entirely given up.

1 Since writing this, a version has appeared in this Journal, 31: 47 (No. 628).

The United States Branch of the English Folk-Dance Society has at present centres in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. In two of these centres a demonstration of the " Running Step," an Appalachian folk-dance of great vigor and a good deal of complexity, was given by Cecil J. Sharp, the director of the parent English society.

It was he who discovered it, and with the assistance of Maud Karpeles, also of the English society, succeeded in learning it and recording it.

The American Folk-Dance Society, through Elizabeth Burchenal, has published recently a series of American folk-dances, largely from New England. Cecil Sharp, with Olive Dame Campbell (whose name stands first on the title-page), has published the first-fruits of his Appalachian trips in "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians." Of course, many of these have been known; but the book-form of the publication, and the abundance of the music, make this particularly valuable.

There is a quantity of material, both of song and dance, both imported and native, yet to be brought together. The writer has caviled, and still cavils, at the indifference with which we seem to regard our "common or garden" treasures.

Maine, Vermont, and Adirondack travellers, please notice!

CHARLES PEABODY,

Secretary American Folk-Lore Society.

"BUY ME A MILKING-PAIL," AND SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR.—The following songs were contributed by Mrs. H. G. Richardson, from Clarksburg, W. Va.

BUY ME A MILKING-PAIL.

"Buy me a milking-pail, O mother, O mother!

Buy me a milking-pail, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Where shall the money come from, O daughter, O daughter?
Where shall the money come from, O dearest daughter of mine?"

"Sell father's feather-bed, O mother, O mother!

Sell father's feather-bed, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Where will your father sleep, O daughter, O daughter?
Where will your father sleep, O dearest daughter of mine?"

"Sleep in the boys' room, O mother, O mother!
Sleep in the boys' room, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Where will the boys sleep, O daughter, O daughter?
Where will the boys sleep, O dearest daughter of mine?"

"Sleep in the cook's room, O mother, O mother!
Sleep in the cook's room, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Where will the cook sleep, O daughter, O daughter?
Where will the cook sleep, O dearest daughter of mine?"

"Sleep in the pig-pen, O mother, O mother!

Sleep in the pig-pen, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Where will the pigs sleep, O daughter, O daughter? Where will the pigs sleep, O dearest daughter of mine?"

"Sleep by the river-side, O mother, O mother! Sleep by the river-side, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Suppose the pigs should fall in, O daughter, O daughter! Suppose the pigs should fall in, O dearest daughter of mine!"

"Get a man to watch them, O mother, O mother!

Get a man to watch them, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Suppose the man should fall asleep, O daughter, O daughter! Suppose the man should fall asleep, O dearest daughter of mine!" "Get a chain and chain them, O mother, O mother!

Get a chain and chain them, O dearest mother of mine!"

"Suppose the chain should cast a link, O daughter, O daughter! Suppose the chain should cast a link, O dearest daughter of mine!" "Oh, well, just let them fall in, O mother, O mother! Oh, well, just let them fall in, O dearest mother of mine!"

SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR.

Song taken by Mrs. Richardson from Mrs. Nancy McAtee, Clarksburg, W. Va.
The Southern boys may longer lie

On the first and fourth of sweet July,
Our General Beauregard resound

For his Southern boys at Richmond.

That night we laid on the cold ground,
No tents nor shelter could be found,
With rain and hail was nearly drown,

To cheer our hearts at Richmond.

Thirty thousand Yankees, I heard them say,
Was slain all on that fatal day,

And seven thousand Southerners lay

In the bloody gore at Richmond.

Their guns and knapsacks they threw down,
And ran like hares before the hound,
I'm sure the plains they did run red

With the blood that was shed at Richmond.

Cease, you Southerner to your hand
Which from Yankeedom we cannot stand!
Go spread the news throughout the land

Of the victory that was won at Richmond.

The Yankee Retreat.

The very next morning we marched very slow,
We wakened those Yankees, their bugles did blow,
Fighting through briers, and fighting through thorn,
Such fighting I never saw since I was born!

Up rode General Averil, his mustache on his face,
"Pitch in, my Virginians! we'll soon win the race."
But Jackson overheerd him -
he thought it was best
To take keer of hisself, and care nought fur the rest!

Old Joe Camp.

Old Joe Camp, when he come to town,
Enlisted under Captain Brown,

Brown swore him on the very fust slap,
And sent him off to Manassas Gap.

Brown he was a-walkin' round.
He found Joe sleepin' on the ground.
Brown said to Joe, "It is your lot,

We'll take you out and have you shot."

Said Joe to Brown, "Fightin' wasn't my intent,

And now I can't do you no dirt,

For I 'low to desert."

The ammunition gittin' thin,

They wound Joe up and poked him in.
They fired him off at the very first round,
And fired him back to Captain Brown!

REVIEWS.

EDWIN MILLER FOGEL, PH.D. Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. American Germanica Press, Philadelphia, 1915. iv + 387 p.

"ISLAND cultures" are always worth studying. The French habitants of Quebec, the Creoles of Louisiana, the Basques, the Bretons, the Romanschspeaking Swiss, are the more interesting in that they have been hemmed in, and as it were placed on the defensive, by more powerful neighbors. A kind of conscious in-breeding is the result, the intensification of local characteristics of speech and of life.

So with the Pennsylvania Germans, a fit subject for their neighbors' blason populaire. The reviewer, brought up in Philadelphia, still feels Pennsylvania "Dutch" a more familiar title than "German," though of course there is not the slightest connection with Holland.

Hearsay and literature have more or less united in giving these Germans of eastern Pennsylvania a bad name. Some of their characteristics may not be ingratiating, but it may be found after this war that certain qualities of self-sacrificing loyalty go far to make up for casual disagreeablenesses.

Professor Fogel has gathered together and published, following a short Introduction, a very large number of "manners" and "customs," invaluable to the student of American folk-lore.

Pennsylvania German is a dialect akin to that of the Rhenish Palatinate. It is not a "lingo" or a patois. The author is quite justified in his defence of it on p. 2 of the Introduction. It is high time that, too, the French of Canada, the Flemish, even the Provençal, came into their rights. Those who speak it are scattered over fourteen counties, and number over three hundred thousand. Protestant to a high degree, the folk-lore misses the picturesqueness of the Latins; but a terseness of expression and a pithy outlook on life make up somewhat for this. Many of the traditions and quasi-superstitions go back to the ante-Christian times of North Europe. The four seasonal festivals, echoes of the worship of Donar, Wodan, and Freia, of sacrifice and ordeal, there are in abundance. The Introduction summarizes these somewhat cursorily.

The author sometimes draws rather arbitrary conclusions; e.g., as to boundary-stones and the wedding-dress shroud (pp. 16 and 17). Sometimes he does not go far enough, as in his discussion of sacrifices (p. 12). As a whole, however, he has well pointed the way for further study. It is much to say of a book that practically all in it is correct, that the author is characteristically conservative in statement.

The principal fault of the Introduction is that it is too short. One longs for a whole volume based on the 2085 instances given in the text, wherein not only Germanic and a slight amount of British and Scandinavian ancestry and relationship are consulted, but where a carefully digested rapprochement might be made with contemporary Europe and the rest of America — as well as an attempt to drive the roots of these growths as far as the neolithic times of the Mediterranean prehistoric race.

The text is admirably arranged. A careful transcription of the German. text, and the distribution by counties, are followed by a translation, and by its correlates in Germany and Britain. Childhood, marriage, death;