XVI PREFACE 



As the White Doves came from Babylon or the Meleagrian 

 Birds from the farther Nile, so over the sea and the islands 

 came Eastern legends and Eastern names. And our Aryan 

 studies must not blind us to the presence in an Aryan tongue 

 of these immigrants from Semitic and Egyptian speech, or 

 from the nameless and forgotten language that was spoken 

 by the gods. 



D. W. T. 



