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denied, and they produced a speech of his in 

 Hansard in which he said it would come in the 

 forefront, ' Oh yes,' he said, ' but a front is 

 a line, not a point.' " 



Re-reading, in the new edition now just issued, 

 Mr. (now Sir James) Frazer's Golden Bough, Lord 

 Avebury noticed that the writer attributed to Sir 

 A. Lyall and to Mr. Jevons the distinction, on 

 which he had insisted years before, between 

 Religion and Magic. He therefore wrote to Mr. 

 Frazer : 



llOi November 1901. 



Dear Sir — I am reading the new edition of your 

 Golden Bough, and there are one or two points which I 

 had not noticed in the First Edition, and to which I 

 should hke to call your attention. 



On Page xvi-63 you attribute to Sir A. Lyall and 

 Mr. Jevons the distinction or opposition between Magic 

 (or as I prefer to call it Fetichism, because it does not 

 seem to cover the whole of what is generally termed 

 Magic) and religion. 



I had however pointed this out, and dwelt on it, years 

 before, in my Origin of Civilisation. See for instance 

 p. 206, 210, 332, etc. 



I wish to call your attention to this because the 

 essential difference between an Idol and a Fetich, seems 

 to have been overlooked by almost all writers on these 

 subjects. Again on p. xviii with regard to the curious 

 subject of the slain God may I refer you to The Origin 

 of Civilisation, p. 367. 



It is a small point, but on p. 181, 1. 19, the word 

 " family " would in a botanical sense be correct rather 

 than " species." — I am, yours truly, Avebury. 



J. G. Frazer, Esq. 



Mr. Frazer replied 



Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 12th November 1901. 



My Lord — I am much obliged to you for pointing 

 out to me how closely the views expressed in the second 



