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The Gypsies and their Folk Tales. 

 In the introduction to his collection 

 of Gypsy Folk Tales Mr. Francis H. 

 Groome describes the wide dispersion of 

 the gypsy race as extending, in Europe, 

 from Finland to Sicily, and from the 

 shores of the Bosporus to the Atlantic 

 seaboard ; in Asia, from Siberia to India, 

 and from Asia Minor (possibly) to 

 China; in Africa, from Egypt and Al- 



geria to Darfur and Kordofan; and in 

 America, from Pictou in Canada to Eio 

 Janeiro. Believing that the gypsies, 

 originating in India, left that region at 

 an unknown date very long ago, he 

 traces their migrations in the past and 

 shows that a part of the race is still very 

 migratory, passing, among other routes, 

 between Scotland and North America, 

 and between Spain and Louisiana. An- 



