{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/ms1/ms112.htm","path":"neu/ms1/ms112.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ms1/ms112.htm","text":"Magic Songs of the West Finns, Vol. I, by John Abercromby, [1898]\nThe following contemporary advertisements are included for completeness\u2014JBH.\nTHE GRIMM LIBRARY\nA Series of Folk-Lore Monographs under the general editorship of Mr. ALFRED NUTT. In crown 8vo volumes, elegantly printed at the Constable Press, on laid paper, half-bound in art linen, edges uncut. Limited issue.\nGEORGIAN FOLK-TALES. Translated by MARJORY WARDROP. Pp. xii +175. 5s. net.\nTHE LEGEND OF PERSEUS. By EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND, F\u1e62.A.\nVOL. II. THE LIFE-TOKEN. Pp. viii + 445. 12s. 6d. net.\nVOL. III. ANDROMEDA. MEDUSA. Pp. xxxvii + 225. 7s. 6d. net.\nTHE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FEBAL. Edited by KUNO MEYER. With Essays upon the Happy Otherworld in Irish Myth, and upon the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth, by ALFRED NUTT.\nVOL. II. THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF REBIRTH. Pp. xii +352. 10s. 6d. net.\nTHE LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN. Studies upon its Original Scope and Significance, by JESSIE L. WESTON. Pp. xiv + 117. 4s. net.\n[TURN OVER\nThe volumes hitherto issued in the Grimm Library have been cordially welcomed alike by folk-lore students and by the most representative organs of the general press.\nThe following expressions of opinion may be cited:\u2014\nConcerning MR. HARTLAND'S 'LEGEND OF PERSEUS.'\nThe Antiquary.\u2014'Folk-lore, treated as it is in the scientific method employed in the present work, is raised at once to a high level of importance, and is full of possibilities in the near future.'\nThe Athenaeum.\u2014'A notable study in the early psychological history of man.'\nThe Academy.\u2014'There will be agreement as to the skill with which he has disentangled a mass of valuable material.'\nThe Manchester Guardian.\u2014'A book that no one interested in the early history of religion in folk-lore or in anthropology can safely neglect. Probably the best book touching the study of folk-lore\u2014that is, on the growth and development of primitive human ideas\u2014published since the \"Golden Bough.\"'\nThe Westminster Gazette.\u2014'Mr. Frazer's \"Golden Bough\" began a new epoch in the modern treatment of mythology. . . . Mr. Hartland is one of our most learned and competent workers in this novel field, and he ably follows Mr. Frazer's footsteps.'\nThe Nation (New York).\u2014'A most scholarly and fascinating work. Those who have not followed the progress of similar investigations will be startled by its suggestiveness.'\nThe Speaker.\u2014'Mr. Hartland writes with a scholar's modesty and a scholar's ease.'\nThe Literary World.\u2014'We can find nothing but praise for this able and systematic inquiry into a subject fraught with interest to student and reader alike.'\nNotes and Queries, in mentioning the issue of Vol. III.\u2014'The ambitious and scholarly task of Mr. Hartland is now accomplished, and the world is the richer by an all-important contribution to comparative folk-lore.'\nThe Daily Chronicle.\u2014'A work which as an authoritative exposition of the anthropological exposition of folk-lore has taken its place by the side of Mr. Frazer's \"Golden Bough.\"'\nConcerning 'THE VOYAGE OF BRAN'\nMonsieur H. D\u2019Arbois de Jubainville in the 'Revue Celtique.'\u2014'\u0152uvre d\u2019une grande valeur scientifique et d\u2019une lecture agr\u00e9able.'\nMonsieur H. Gaidoz in 'M\u00e9lusine.'\u2014'\u00c9dition, tradition et commentaire philologique sont d\u2019une critique irr\u00e9prochable. . . . M. Nutt est bien inform\u00e9: ses mat\u00e9riaux sont pris aux meilleures sources: son exposition est nette et pr\u00e9cise: son livre est une \u0153uvre d\u2019histoire g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e0 la fois des croyances et des litt\u00e9ratures.'\nMonsieur Gaston Paris in 'Romania.'\u2014'Tr\u00e8s savante \u00e9tude . . . qui sera lue avec grand profit par tous ceux qui s\u2019occupent de litt\u00e9rature compar\u00e9e ou d\u2019histoire religieuse.'\nProfessor Ernst Martin in the 'Zeitschrift f\u00fcr deutsches Alterthum.'\u2014'Ueberall verwertet Nutt die besten und neuesten Hilfsmittel, aber er vermehrt auch selbstst\u00e4ndig das Material und zieht eine Reihe von Schl\u00fcssen welche er methodisch begrundet und zugleich klar und fesselnd vortr\u00e4gt.'\nProfessor P. York Powell in 'Folk-Lore:\u2014'The most valuable contribution to the history of religion and religious ideas that, so far as my knowledge goes, last year gave us.'\nMonsieur L. Marillier in the 'Revue de l\u2019Histoire des Religions.'\u2014'M, Nutt aura rendu un \u00e9minent service en portant \u00e0 la connaissance des mythologues des documents dont beaucoup malheureusement ne sont mis \u00e0 profit que dans le cercle \u00e9troit des celtisants; il en aura rendu un plus grand encore en faisant avec tant de suret\u00e9 critique et de solide \u00e9rudition l\u2019analyse et l\u2019histoire des conceptions complexes qui y sont contenues.'\nNotes and Queries,\u2014'This notable contribution to the history of Celtic myth and religion.'\nManchester Guardian.\u2014'The bock is important, because it is a carefully reasoned constructive effort to get a working-theory of Aryan religious history.'\nInverness Northern Chronicle.\u2014'A reconstruction of pre-Christian Irish theology. . . . Professor Meyer's translations are admirable. . . . It is impossible to give in this notice an idea of Mr. Nutt's painstaking gathering of materials, or of the scientific use he makes of them in the work of restoration.'\nModern Language Notes (Baltimore).\u2014'The field has been thoroughly examined for material, the material has been well and clearly worked over. The statements of fact are always fair; the reasoning is usually clear, forcible, and just, and the conclusions sane.'\nLiterature.\u2014'Must for some time to come form the starting-point for future inquiry into the varying views of man about the life after death.'\nThe Nation (New York),\u2014'Of Professor Meyer's part as editor and commentator, we can speak only in terms of the highest praise. . . . The same praise should be extended to Mr. Nutt's disquisitions . . . which prove him to be a master of his complicated theme.'\nConcerning 'THE LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN.'\nManchester Guardian.\u2014'A careful, readable, and suggestive study which adds substantially to the results obtained by Madden's well-known book.'\nAcademy.\u2014'Invaluable in clearing the path for a final survey of the tangled wood of Arthurian legend.'\nLONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270 STRAND","title":"Magic Songs of the West Finns, Vol. I: Advertisements","type":"page"}