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—Mr. Stallybrass brings his laborious work to a- conclusion in

this volume. It contains a supplement to the text, extending to about four hundred pages, and a brief addition to the original preface. These have been collected from the author's posthumous notes by Professor E. H. Meyer. The author's appendix contains a paper on Anglo-Saxon genealogies, showing the descent of the Royal lines of the early English Kingdom from• W6den, and tracing the connection between them and the ancient national poetry. Then follow articles on " Superstitions " and " Spells " (there are some very curious things in this). Mr. Stallybrass deserves the hearty thanks of students of anthropology for making this most valuable treasure of knowledge available to the English reader.