foundations of spiritual truths, so called, cannot possibly be shaken 

 thereby. . . . Warm personal admiration and acute critical dis- 

 cernment could not well be blended in finer proportions than 

 in the article on the lamented Mr. Wright. . . The article on Mi 

 Buckle's Fallacies has one aspect more remarkable than all the resfc. 

 It was written and published when the " History of Civilization " 

 was new, that is to say, when the writer was nineteen years of 

 age; and the years almost nineteen ~,e which have elapsed 

 since then have rather confirmed than - ./acted from its value as a 

 piece of criticism. The judgment of posterity on the most am- 

 bitious book of its generation, and one of the most bewildering, 

 was actually anticipated by a stripling, and its final rank assigned 

 with singular fairness and precision. Scarcely even in the style is 

 there a trace of immaturity. . . . The essay on the Races of the 

 Danube forcibly suggests the idea that Mr. Fiske has qualities of 

 mind, almost unused hitherto, which would make him an excep- 

 tionally valuable writer of history. Atlantic Monthly. 



The article on the Races of the Danube shows that Mr. Fiske has 

 a special talent for history. Nation (New York). 



MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS: Old Tales and Su- 

 perstitions interpreted by Comparative Mythology. 

 12mo, pp. 251, $2.00. 



CONTENTS: The Origins of Folk-Lore; The Descent 

 of Fire ; Werewolves and Swan-Maidens ; Light and 

 Darkness; Myths of the Barbaric World; Juventus 

 Mundi ; The Primeval Ghost- World. 



Mr. Fiske has given us a book which is at once sensible and at- 

 tractive, on a subject about which much is written that is crotchety 

 or tedious. W. R. S. RALSTON, in Athenceum (London). 



This volume is not a text-book of scientific mythology. It con 

 tains seven essays crowded with quotations and examples, in the 

 abundant use of which the writer's learning is not more conspicu- 

 ous than his literary skill. Not everybody can shape and control 

 such wealth of material. Christian Union (New York). 



He has, as we must admit, one qualification for attaining his ob- 

 ject, in being completely master of his subject, and in knowing 

 also how to treat it in an attractive manner. FELIX LIEBRECHT, in 

 Academy (London). 



It is extremely interesting for its happy combination of psycho- 

 logic analysis with a study of the primitive beliefs of mankind. . . . 

 A perusal of this thorough work cannot be too strongly recom 

 mended to all who are interested in comparative mythology. Re* 

 vue Critique (Paris). 



Mr. Fiske is a master of perspicuous explanation. World (Ne\f 

 York). 



