PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 489 



Blackfoot mythologj'. .1. Maclean. 



The Algic Maiial)ozho. J. C. Hamilton. 



Medicine men and certain Indian myths, Henry Mott. 



Doctrine of sonls amouj^ the Chinook, Dr. Fran/. Boas. 



Christ in folklore, A. F. Chaml)erlain. 



Animal and jilant weather jiroverbs, Fanny D. Bergen. 



Cnstoins and traditions of the Ainos of .Japan, D. P. I'enliallow. 



The perinaueut results of the Folk-lore Oongiess held in London in 

 1891 are given to the public in a vohune of 41 '2 i>ages, entitled "Pajters 

 and Transactions/' The material is arranged under the four sections called 

 Folk-Tale; Mythology; Custom and Institution; (xeneral Theory and 

 Classitication. The i)resident of the congress, Mr. Andrew Lang, and 

 the vice presidents of th<' sections delivered addresses, and papers of 

 great merit were read. The most important discussion was that con- 

 cerning the independent origin of folk incidents. Tinder the title 

 "Bible(>theque de Carabas," David Xutt has issued seven volumes 

 wiuch are of especial delight to folk-lorists, to wit: Cupid and 

 Psyche, by William Adliugton; Euterpe, the Second Book of Herodotus, 

 Englished by B. K., 1581; The Fables of Bidpai, or the iMorall Philoso- 

 phie of Doni, Englished out of Italian by Thomas North, 1570, now 

 edited by Joseph Jacobs; The Fables o: Esopas printed by W. Caxton 

 in 11.S4, edited by J. Jacobs; The A-Jus of Cains Valerius Catullus, 

 translated, etc., by Grant Allen; Plutarch's Komane Questions, trans- 

 lated in 1603 by Philemon Holland. 



Plutarch's Romane (^)uestions, translated in 1603, by Philemon Hol- 

 land, M. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, has again been edited by 

 Mr. Jevons, of the University of Durham, with additional dissertations 

 on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man- worship, Aryan marriage, sympa- 

 thetic magic, and the eating of beans. Plutarch's Romane (j>uestions 

 is said to be "the earliest formal treatise on the subject of folk-lore." 

 Plutarch was the first "to make a collection and selection of dates, 

 and to give them a place of their own in literature.'' Plutarch's 

 answers, however, are not in the modern vein, for tiiey are framed on 

 the assumption "that the customs that they are intended to explain 

 were consci<»usly and <lelibeiately instituted by men who jtossessed at 

 least as much culture and wisdom as J'lutarch himself." 



The current literature on the scientific study of religions is to be 

 followed u]) in the Annalcs du Mus<''e Cuiniet, and especially in the 

 RevtU' de rHistoire (U^y^ Peligioiis, pnl)lished on the (luiinet foundation 

 under the direction of .M. Jean de P/'ville, with the cooperation of 

 l>arth, Leclerc(i, Decharme, llild, Lafaye, Maspero, Heium, and Tide. 



The volume of La IJevue for the year 181)2 contains the following 

 original papers : 



Le dieu romain Janus. J. 8. Speycr. 



Les hymnes du Rig Vi^da, sont-ils des priercs. Paul Kcgnaud. 



l>ulletin de la Religion .luive. 



Le deuomhrement des secte.s mohametancs. I. (ioldziher. 



15ullctin archcr)logi<|Ui' de la lieligiou Rfuuainc, Aug. Adolleut. 



