Segnius Irritant or Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories

An important work on folk-lore has just been issued by Mr. Forder. It is entitled "Segnius Irritant; or, Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories," translated and compared by W. W. Strickland. The word "primitive" may be objected to as not strictly accurate. But the stories, translated from the Czech and Slovenien, are certainly of very archaic character, and, although they have some analogues in Southern and Western Europe, probably represent earlier phases of some better known folk tales. Beside...