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Book Reviews

1998; Routledge; Volume: 109; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0015587x.1998.9715972

1469-8315

Gillian Bennett, Hilda Ellis Davidson, W.F.H. Nicholaisen, Malcolm K. Jones, Juliette Wood, Sioned Davies, Jacqueline Simpson, Т. Μ. Charles-Edwards, Hilda Ellis Davidson, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Gabrielle Hatfield, Gillian Bennett,

Abstract The World of William Hone: A New Look at the Romantic Age in Words and Pictures of the Day. Compiled, introduced and annotated by John Wardroper. London: Shelfmark Books, 1997. 330pp. 80 illus. Pbk £12.95; hbk £28.50. ISBN (pbk) 0 9526093 2 0; (hbk) 0 9526093 1 2. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett. Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Compiled by Andy Orchard. London: Cassell, 1997. xvi + 224pp. Illus. £20. ISBN 0 304 345202. Reviewed by Hilda Ellis Davidson. Die Ratte am Strohhalm: Allerneueste sagenhafte Geschichten von heute [The Rat at the Straw: Most Recent Contemporary Legends]. By Rolf Wilhelm Brednich. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1996. 181pp. DM9.80. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicholaisen. Kelten: Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung ihrer Kultur. By Helmut Birkhan. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997. 1261pp. £70. ISBN 3 7001 2609 3. Reviewed by Malcolm Jones. Defending Middle-Earth. Tolkien: Myth and Modernity. By Patrick Curry. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1997. 205pp. £15.99. ISBN 0 86315 234 1. Reviewed by Juliette Wood. The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays. Edited by C.W. Sullivan III. New York and London: Garland Publishing. xxi + 38pp. $15.00. ISBN 0 8153 1482 5. Reviewed by Sioned Davies. The Festival of Brigit: Celtic Goddess and Holy Woman. By Séamas Ó Catháin. Dublin: DBA Publications, 1995. 194pp. Illus. £14.95. ISBN (pbk) 0 9519692 2 6; (hbk) 0 9519692 3 4. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson. Olaus Magnus: A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555, Vol. I. Translated by Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgens, and edited by P.G. Foote. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996. xciii + 288pp. Illus. £35. ISBN 0 904180 43 3. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson. Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition. By Herbert Halpert and J.D.A. Widdowson. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996. 2 vols. xcv + 1176pp. Illus. £150. ISBN 0 8153 1736 0. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson. Crefft y Cyfarwydd: Astudiaeth o dechnegau naratif yn Y Mabinogion. By Sioned Davies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995. x + 261pp. Pbk. £14.95. ISBN 0 7083 1319 1. Reviewed by Thomas Charles-Edwards. World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies. Edited with introduction by J. Sienkewicz. Magill Bibliographies. Scarecrow Press, 1996. ix + 449pp. Bibliography with notes. Indexes. $47.05. Reviewed by Hilda Ellis Davidson. The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of George Bernard Shaw. Compiled by George B. Bryan and Wolfgang Mieder. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 1994. 286pp. $65.00. ISBN 0 313 29218 3. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen. A Dictionary of Wellerisms. Edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Stewart A. Kingsbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xix + 187pp. Hbk $24.95. ISBN 0 19 508318 0. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen. Folklore in Use: Applications in the Real World. Vol. 1.1/2 (1993) and vol. 2.1 (1994). Edited by David Shuldiner. Enfield Lock, Middlesex: Hisarlik Press. Annual subscriptions: £10.00 UK individuals; £20.00 UK institutions. ISSN 0966-1603. Reviewed by W.F.H. Nicolaisen. Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West. By Margarita Kay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. ISBN 0 8165 1646 4. Reviewed by Gabrielle Hatfield. Performance and Practice: Oral Narrative Traditions Among Teenagers in Britain and Ireland. By Michael Wilson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. 304pp. Hbk £45.00. ISBN 1 84014 112 3. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett.