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MITIVE RACES.

A BOOK ON TRIBAL DANCING.

LITERARY NOTES

Mr. Philip Guedsila goes to America where his "Palmeriton," vogue at which is having a Home, will be published Putnam While he in

by away

OMAR KHAYYAM.

TRANSLATION OF FRENCH VERSION.

Of recent years a vast amount of study is being devoted to the natiye races, their customs, superstitions, And their beliefs. Some weeks ago we called attention to an interest ing volume on the subject, entitled ibal Dancing and Social Dove lopment in which the author, Mr. D. Hambly, B.Sc.. traced the growth of dancing among primitive races, showing that it was the es-with "complete understanding," This version is much closer to the Other additions are being planned original than Fitzgerald's, which, of to the Curiosities of Politica" course, was merely a paraphrase. series, which already includes St. But the best line that Omar ever John Ervine's "Parnell and Mr wrote was not equal to the worst Shane, Leslide "George IV."

that Fitzgerald translated for him,

About the time that Swinburne was endeavouring to induce British a "now volume will appear people to see the genius in Pitz- the Benn series, "Curiosities of geld's famous translation of Polities, which he edits, and fq Omar Khayyam, Mr. J. 3. Mehglas, which he wrote the "Palmerston the French interpreter at the For- Its subject la "Disraeli," and the sian Court. published a French Biographer is Mr. D. L. Murray, who translation from a text which, had been lithographed in Teheran. has long made a study of him, and who endeavours to prosent him

sence of communal life, and was adopted both as social expression Mr. and a therapeutic measure. Hambly has followed that with n

of

econd large volume, entitled Mrs. Burnett-Smith, who la bat-Mr F. Dyson, of Sydney, has now Origins of Education among ter known in the literary world as translated the whole of the Nicholas Primitive Peoples" (Macmillan), Annie S. Swan, had hoped to pubversion of 464 quatrains into Eng- in which he shows that the very fish a novel of an unusual kind durah, and the book has been publish customs of these backward races ing the autumn. She Has only how indiente a creative genius of a very ever, managed to finish it for theed, under the title of "The Rubaiyat high order. He analyses in con- spring, when Hodder and Stough-of Omar Khayyam." It appears to ton are to lasue it under the title, be a very good translation of the adorable detail the customs different races, and traces back the "The Pendulum." It is an intimate French version; and the transla source of inspiration in the first and considered study of the growth, tion of M. Nicholas's notes and ex

extraordinary Instance to the civiliantion of an-development, and

phases of experience through which planations are decidedly valuabin to cient Egypt..

Another book of ethnological in-30 many individuals and familles the English student. terest, but one for the specialist had to pass during the Great, War: Fitzgerald who made the reputation rather than the general readers, is It is told in the form of a woman's

en-like, the translation which he has "Mono-Alb Folklore." by Gerald diary, and besides presenting a pic of Omar, and Mr. Dyson's volume, Camden Wheeler. B.A. This book ture of British family life it is a scientist's thesis for the degree deavours to depict that of the copied, Incks all the charm of of Doctor of Philosophy, and while heart, as what really moulds most Fitzgerald. Nevertheless it is a

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lives.

But it was

decidedly interesting volume.

HISTORY OF MARRIAGE.

Trials of the Bachelor..

it le a very dimeult book to read It contains a mass of interesting folklore of the natives of the Solo-

The Murrays were. Byron's pub- men Islands, indicating 8 Mr.lishers, and naturally enough they Hambly's books did, that both the give prominence to any new book customs and folklore had a defate about him which comes alone. They creative meaning and use. Much have, for some months, had in hand in Mr. Wheeler's book endorses the

a volume of selections from the views set out by Mr. Hambly that poet's letters and journals. It has these native peoples are not really been edited by M. V. H. Collina

Now, ye bachelors, read and learn the primitive people. but inherited who has aimed to make it from the work of Professor Wester-

on Bryon's life their culture and their customs ning commentary

character. Macaulay, deg-marck. This work, though it is pro- from a common source: With the and passage of time, however, the mean-cribed Byron's letters as "among perly a scientific treatise on mar- ing has been lost and the custom the best in the language" and yet ringe, in all the ages of mankind, is has degenerated:

they are really not only available in a most diverting book. not heavy, Moore's biography of him, and in but even humorous in patches. the definitive edition of his works. which the Murrays published some years ago. Now "Lord Byron in IN ANCIENT CITIES. His Letters" is completed.

CIVILISATION OF OLD MAYA.

Now and again we hear of mill- tant political economists loudly ad- vocating a bachelor tax." These people, it would appear, regard cell- bacy as a luxury-an attitude den- gerous enough for any man; let Years ago there appeared a study alone a benediek.. Assuming that of primitive marriage and of primi- all the men who advocate bachelor- tive thought in its bearing on mar-taxation are benedicks, it may be riage by Mr. Ernest. Crawley, Whe some consolation to them to learn Dr. Thomas Garn, one of the

entitled it The Mystic Rose." It from our professor that in many foremost archaeologists of modern became one of the classics of an- lards and tribes, the man or mald days, and the leading authority on thropology and of primitive psycho who stays, single is regarded as any- matters dealing with the old Mayaogy but it has been out of print, thing but a subject for taxation. civilisation, has continued his fas and only obtainable second-hand at feinating accounts of exploration in a high premium. It is now being the Maya Jands of South America, edited for a new edition, which in a book entitled "Ancient Cities Methuen, will publish, by Mr. Theo and Modern Tribe" (Duckworth) dore Besterman. He is retaining Dr. Gana was the first man to find Intact the original text and the the ruins of Goba, a great Maya theories put forward, by Mr. Craw city in the wilds of Yucatan. Onley. but he gives the new evidence the way thither he found a stone causeway that is still in sound con- dition in spite of the centuries that have passed since it was built; and he has found what is, perhaps, the largest cave in the world, in which he expects to make most important discoveries. He believes that as recently as a hundred years. agc there were Indians who could read the Maya Hieroglyphs, which so far remain undecipherable Ha a hopeful, however, of finding a key to them in his later explorations. For those interested in archaeology "Ancient Cities' and Modern Tribes" is a fascinating book, all the more interesting because of its clear and informative illustrations,

"IDLE" WRITERS.

Mr. Arnold Bennett has been ac- cusing our younger writers of "idleness,"

He cannot mean, surely, that they don't produce enough books-as many, say, as Scott and Balzac did writing continually under the lash of their creditors.

which has gathered during the past two decades. He also discusses the rival theories of later investigators, such as those of psycho-analysis and functional psychology, and he is able to show that many of these later theories were anticipated in a detailed manner by this book.

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According to Fijian" beliefs, he who died wifeless was in danger of being smashed to atoms by the god Nanganangga, who always lay in ambush for auch wretched fellows on the road to Paradise. Among the Santals of Bengal, the unhappy "Noman" is usually classed next to celibacy by a thief or a witch; and a tribe in comic Burma dacourages awarding to the offenders

"There are three things that are funerals. unfilial," said Mencius, "and to have

them." no posterity is the greatest of

From earliest ages, this antagon- ism, which now takes the form of a the taxation threat, hat. beset the The Oxford Press" makes. wider sweep for literary things of unmarried; but it does not seem interest than a private publishing to arise from any really patriotic house can do, and it announces a motive rather it is caused by the drama from Poland. It is called fear that lingers in the mind from "Tridion," and it was written by times remote the dread of being Count Zygnet Kriasinaki, a member forgotten lost in a tomb with no of an aristrocratic and wealthy one to tend it and cheer the lonely Polish family, who lived from 1812 ghost at festivals.f

For those who remain unmarried. to 1860. His education, was broad and cosmopolitan, and his tastes through difdence, or lack of experi were literary and philosophic, and ence, Professor Westermarck de- this is reflected in "Iridion," which scribes very fully the various modes Arat appeared in 1886. The sub- of contracting a marriage, begia- stance of the drama is inspired by ning with marriage by capture! It is Rome and its ruins, and its central still practised all over the world, Idea springe from reflection upon even in Australia, Among primi the destiny of Poland, whose native people the man le the hunter.. tional aspirations were crushed by and the girl, whose resistance is the failure of the insurrection of feigned as often as not, is usually 1880-31,

carried off by her captor after some feast or dance; sometimes she is, clabbed, but not often. On the Baroness von Hutton has chosen other hand, in thoroughly Western- These were great men but na from her works of recent years aised communities, the man is often great were others, like Flaubest or volume of stories to which she gives the hurted, and a particularly mer- Stendhal who published compara- the name "Flies," and which Mills allesa huntress is the girl In this tively little, but who laboured near and Boon will publish. They also respect, the Garos of Assam may ly a hard with the polishing of promise a book of stories, "Grey be said to have achieved something their prom or the refinement of Brother and Others" by Mrs. beyond (7) Western standards: their Ideas. Quantity has so little. Dorothea Convers, who, in them. There, when the time for the cere to do with it! Indeed, in the touches many sides of life. A third mony approaches, the girl sende n Journey down to posterity, light bag announcement is a romance by Mrs. party of relatives to the man's hut gage is the best equipment. We Alice M. Williamson. "Sheik Bill' to bring his in." On seeing them, have enough novelists of the is the title of the story, and the the bridegroom hides, or sprints for volume-a-month type. Let us en heroine is Sanda who "sighed for the tall timber and the dark, moun- courage those who weigh less heavia shetk, an Aga, or something, and tales. He is pursued, and betag go didn't want Lord Bill at first taken, la repeatedly ducked ins ly upon the book reviewer!

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pool until he consents to the mar riage.

In a chapter on "rites," the pro fessor naively says: "Iz Argyllshire, when the health of bride and bride- groom is drunk, someone must and break it for luck. At New- throw a glass over their shoulder burgh, after the marriage ceremony, and just as the newly married' couple are leaving the bride's house, a plate containing salt is, at some the hedd of the bridegroom" marriages, stealthily broken over So soon? Ah, no wonder the lada leave home!

("Short History.of Marriage," by Westermarck; London, Edward Macmillan.)

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