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propriate popularizations. For these this vol- 
ume has the promise of proving serviceable, 
and to others and more serious students it may 
not be without suggestive value. It is fortu- 
nate, at all events, that the psychology thus 
presented draws its inspiration from worthy 
and scholarly sources, and is presented in a 
way calculated to make the student think and 
observe, not merely read and repeat. We may 
question whether good wine should be so much 
diluted ; but however thin, it retains a flavor 
which wine of lesser quality never bears. 
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BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Report of the Seventieth Meeting of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, held at Bradford, 
in September, 1900. London, John Murray. 1900. 
Pp. exvi +975 +111. 
Report of the U. S. National Museum. Part II. A 
Memorial of George Brown Goode together with a selec- 
tion of his Papers on Museums and on the History of 
Science in America. Washington, Government 
Printing Office. 1901. Pp. xii+515. 
The Elementary Principles of Chemistry, accompanied by 
Suggestions to Teachers. A. W. E. YouNG. New 
York, D. Appleton & Company. 1901. Pp. xiv-+ 
106 + 48. 
Ganot's Natural Philosophy. Translated by E. At- 
KINSON and revised by A. W. REINOLD. Long- 
mans, Green & Co. 1900. Pp. xii + 752. 
No. VI. of the Liverpool 
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Lepeophtheirus and Lernza. 
Marine Biological Committee Memoirs. 
Scorr. London, Williams & Norgate. 
Pp. viii + 54 and 5 plates. 2s. 
Second Report of the United States Board on Geographic 
Names, 1890-1899. Washington, Government 
Printing Office. 1901. Pp. 150. 
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 
NuMBER LI. of the Journal of American Folk- 
lore, which is late in appearing, and concludes 
the year 1900, céntains as the first article a Ha- 
waiian legend entitled ‘ Laieikawai,’ from the 
memoranda of Dr. John Rae, by whom the 
story was taken down and translated, probably 
about 1860. Of this narrative a variant ap- 
pears in the book of King Kalakaua, published 
in 1888. Both versions are abstracts, but the 
account of Rae, which is only a fragment, is so 
far as it goes much fuller, and gives a much 
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better idea of the literary character of Hawaiian 
myth than any other accessible source of infor- 
mation. The story seems to have been a prose 
epic narration of great length, ornamented with 
occasional pieces of verse and provided with a 
very complicated plot. The state of society, 
and the conceptions as well as modes of ex- 
pression, frequently remind the reader of the 
Homeric poems. The heroine from whom the 
tale is named was worshipped by certain 
Hawaiian gentes under the title of the Lady of 
the Twilight, and the sun-hero became her hus- 
band. The story of Rae recites the manner in 
which the girl, as born before the coming of a 
brother, is sentenced to be put to death, her 
concealment by her grandmother, education in 
a cave below a waterfall, growth to maturity, 
and great beauty, the fame of which got abroad, 
and caused a quest after her place of hiding, 
which was indicated by the presence of a rain- 
bow, attendant on the maiden as of divine race. 
The narration is full of information concerning 
Hawaiian cult and superstition, and makes a 
valuable addition to the existing stock of knowl- 
edge. It is to be hoped that the publication 
may lead to a determined attempt to preserve 
Hawaiian legendary lore, and to procure full 
and correct texts in the original language. 
Miss A. C. Fletcher describes a Pawnee cere- 
mony of thanksgiving, at which she had the 
good fortune to be present. In this rite a buf- 
falo skull was worshipped as representative of 
an ancient divine buffalo established by the su- 
preme deity Tirawa as mediator and teacher of 
men. Dr. A. F. Chamberlain contributes a 
discussion on ‘Algonkian Terms connected 
with Religion and Mythology.’ Among the 
items of belief may be noted evidence that sac- 
rifices were made to the war-god by the sus- 
pension to trees of human victims ; one is re- 
minded of the similar Norse offerings to Odin. 
Rev. W. M. Beauchamp supplies an Onondaga 
tale of the Pleiades, in which these stars are 
represented as merry children who have danced 
themselves into the sky. The excellent record 
of ‘American Folk-Lore’ is continued by Dr. A. 
F. Chamberlain (Clark University, Worcester, 
Mass.). With the present year Dr. Chamberlain 
will assume the general management of the 
journal, Mr. W. W. Newell, who has hitherto 
