Gentilisme and Judaisme; Gregor's Notes
on the Folk-Lore of the North-east of Scotland; Comparetti's
Book of Sindibad and Pedroso's Portuguese Folk Tales;
Black's Folk Medicine; Callaway's Religious System of the
Amazulu.

The year 1873 saw the formation of several publishing
Societies.

_The New Shakspere Society_ was founded by Dr. F.J.
Furnivall, for the reading of papers, which have been
published in a Series of Transactions, and also for the
publication of collations of the Quarto Plays, and works
illustrating the great Dramatist's times. Among the latter
works are Harrison's Description of England, Stubbes's
Anatomie of Abuses, Dr. Ingleby's Shakespeare's Centurie of
Prayse, etc.

_The English Dialect Society_ was founded at Cambridge by
the Rev. Professor Skeat. Its objects are stated to be (1)
to bring together all those who have made a study of any of
the Provincial Dialects of England, or who are interested in
the subject of Provincial English; (2) to combine the
labours of collectors of Provincial English words by
providing a common centre to which they may be sent, so as
to gather material for a general record of all such words;
(3) to publish (subject to proper revision) such collections
of Provincial English words that exist at present only in
manuscript; as well as to reprint such Glossaries of
provincial words as are not generally accessible, or are
inserted in books of which the main part relates to other
subjects; and (4) to supply references to sources of
information which may be of material assistance to
word-collectors, students, and all who have a general or
particular interest in the subject. The publications are
arranged under the following Series: A, Bibliographical; B,
Reprinted Glossaries; C, Original Glossaries; D,
Miscellaneous. In 1875 the Society was transferred to
Manchester, and Mr. J.H. Nodal became Honorary Secretary.

_The Palaeographical Society_ was formed for the purpose of
reproducing Specimens of Manuscripts, and it has produced a
Series of Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, edited by E.A.
Bond and E.M. Thompson, Part 1 being issued in 1873.

At the end of the year 1877 _The Index Society_ was founded
for the purpose of producing (1) Indexes of Standard Works;
(2