“_These Essays will be found to have something to satisfy most classes of readers; the lovers of legends proper, the curious in popular delusions, the initiated in Darwinian and Monboddoan theories; and if, in the chapters on Tell and Gellert, we are a little struck with the close following of Dasent’s track, in his preface to the Norse tales, it must be owned that there are chapters――e.g., those on the Divining Rod, the Man in the Moon, and the Seven Sleepers――which present new matter and deserve the praise of independent research._”――QUARTERLY REVIEW. “_The author, indeed, is sometimes fanciful and overbold in his conclusions; but he conducts us through marvellous ways――ways which he has studied well before he undertook to guide others; and if we do not always acquiesce in his descriptions or arguments, we seldom differ from him without hesitation._”――ATHENÆUM. “_We have no space to linger longer about a book which, apart from its didactic pretensions, is an exceedingly amusing and interesting collection of old stories and legends of the middle ages._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE. “_That, on his first visit to the varied field of mediæval mythology, Mr. Baring-Gould should have culled as samples of its richness the most brilliant of the flowers that bloomed in it, is scarcely to be wondered at. But it shows how fertile is the soil when he is enabled to cull from it so goodly a second crop as that which he here presents to us. The myths treated of in the present volume vary in interest――they are all curious and well worth reading._”――NOTES AND QUERIES. =THE POPE AND THE COUNCIL.= By JANUS. Authorized translation from the German. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. “_A profound and learned treatise, evidently the work of one of the first theologians of the day, discussing with the scientific fulness and precision proper to German investigation, the great doctrinal questions expected to come before the Council, and especially the proposed dogma of Papal Infallibility. There is probably no work in existence that contains at all, still less within so narrow a compass, so complete a record of the origin and growth of the infallibilist theory, and of all the facts of Church history bearing upon it, and that too in a form so clear and concise as to put the argument within the reach of any reader of ordinary intelligence, while the scrupulous accuracy of the writer, and his constant reference to the original authorities for every statement liable to be disputed, makes the monograph as a whole a perfect storehouse of valuable information for the historical or theological student._”――SATURDAY REVIEW.