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1911; Routledge; Volume: 22; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Africâner

10.1080/0015587x.1911.9719502

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A. Van Gennep, E. Sidney Hartland, M. Gaster, W. Crooke, Charlotte S. Burne, L. C. Wharton, A. R. Wright, R. Karsten, F. Fawcett,

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

THE GOLDEN BOUGH. A Study in Magic and Religion. By J. G. FRAZER. Third edition. Part I. The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. xi + 417 ; xxxii + 426. Front. Part II. Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. 8vo, pp. xv+ 446. Part III. The Dying God. 8vo, pp. xii + 305. Macmillan, 19 x 1. Reviewed by A Van Gennep. RELIGIONS MŒURS ET LÉGENDES : ESSAIS D'ETHNOGRAPHIE ET DE LINGUISTIQUE. (Troisième Série.) By ARNOLD VAN GENNEP. Paris: Mercure de France, 1911. 8vo. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland. L'ÉGLISE ET LA SORCELLERIE. Par J. FRANÇAIS. Précis Historique. Suivi des Documents officiels des Textes principaux et d'un Procès inédit. Paris: E. Nourry, 1910. 8vo, pp. 272. Reviewed by M. Gaster. THE DAWN OF MEDITERRANEAN CIVILISATION. By ANGELO MOSSO. Trans. by MARIAN C. HARRISON. T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 25 x 16 cm., pp. xxiii+ 424. 203 ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke. FOLKLORE OF WEST AND MID-WALES. By JONATHAN CEREDIO DAVIES, with a Preface by ALICE, COUNTESS AMHEKST. Aberystwyth: Welsh Gazette Office, 1911. 8vo, pp. xii + 348. Reviewed by Charlotte S. Burne. LA BRETAGNE PITTORESQUE ET LÉGENDAIRE. By PAUL YVES SÉBILLOT. Paris: H. Daragon, 1911. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland. NÁRODOPISNÝ VĚSTŃIK ČESKOSLOVANSKÝ. Vydává Společnost Narodopisného Musea Českoslovanského. Bohemia: Prague, 1910–1. Reviewed by L. C. Wharton. CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE. Part I. Life on the Congo. Part II. Thirty-three Native Stories. By the Rev. JOHN H. WEEKS. Religious Tract Society, 1911. 8vo, pp. xxiii + 468. Ill. Reviewed by A. R Wright. INDIANLIF. By ERLAND NORDENSKIÖLD. Stockholm, 1910. pp. 319. Reviewed by R. Karsten. THE KACHÁRIS. By the late Rev. SIDNEY ENDLE. Introduction by J. D. ANDERSON. Published under the orders of the Gov. of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Macmillan, 1911. 8vo, pp. xix+128. Map and ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke. THE VEDDAS. By C. G. SELIGMANN and BRENDA Z. SELIGMANN. Cambridge University Press, 1911. 8vo, pp. xx + 463. Reviewed by W. Crooke. MALABAR SERIES. WYNAD: Its Peoples and Traditions. By C. GOPALAN NAIR, Rao Bahadur. Madras: Higginbotham & Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xvi + 160 + iv. Reviewed by F. Fawcett. THE TRIBE AND INTERTRIBAL RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA. By GERALD C. WHEELER. With a Prefatory Note by EDWARD A. WESTERMARCK. John Murray, 1910. 8vo, pp. xii +168. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland. FF COMMUNICATIONS (1–6). Edit. by J. BOLTE, K. KROHN, A. OLRIK, and C. W. VON SYDOW. (1–4) Helsingfors: Finnish Acad. of Science, 1911. 8vo, pp. 34 + X + 66 + 8. (6) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911. 8vo, pp. 38. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.