Fifty Tales with Ki-mbundu text, literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes. Collected and edited by HELI CHATELAIN, late U.S. Commercial Agent at Loanda. Pp. xii., 315. (With two Maps.) VOL. II. LOUISIANA FOLK-TALES. In French Dialect and English Translation. Collected and edited by ALCEE FORTIER, D. Lit., Professor of Romance Languages in Tulane University of Louisiana. Pp. xi., 122. VOL. III. BAHAMA SONGS AND STORIES. A Contribution to Folk-Lore, by CHARLES L. EDWARDS, Professor of Biology in the University of Cincinnati. With Music, Introduction, Appendix, and Notes. Six Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1895. Pp. xiii., 111. VOL. IV. CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS. Collected from the Oral Tradition of English-speaking Folk. Edited by FANNY D. BERGEN. With Notes, and an Introduction by WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL. 1896. Pp. vi., 161. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK. THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY was organized January 4, 1888, for the collection and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American continent. The Society holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read. The membership fee is three dollars, payable on the 1st of January in each year. Members are entitled to receive the Journal of American Folk-Lore, a periodical appearing quarterly, and of which eight volumes have already been issued, each volume containing about three hundred and fifty octavo pages. The Journal is published for the Society by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York. The work of the Society includes publication and research in regard to the religious ceremonies, ethical conditions, mythology, and oral literature of Indian tribes; collection of the traditions of stocks existing in a relatively primitive state, and the collation of these with correct accounts of survivals among civilized tribes; gathering of the almost wholly unrecorded usages and beliefs of Central and South American races; the comparison of aboriginal American material with European and Asiatic conceptions, myths, and customs; a study of survivals among American negroes, including their traditional inheritance from Africa, and its modification in this Continent; preservation of the abundant folk-lore of the French and Spanish regions of North America; record of the oral traditions of the English-speaking population, and description of communities now or lately existing under isolated conditions. The publication of the Memoirs cannot be met from the regular fees of the Society, but is rendered possible by annual contributions to the Publication Fund, of ten dollars, for such time as individual subscribers may be pleased to continue such subscription. Subscribers are enrolled as members of the Society, and receive all its publications, issued after the date of subscription, including the Journal and Memoirs.