Page 44. To the names of writers who support the idea of an Australian religion should be added that of Dr. John Mathew, in _Eaglehawk and Crow,_ p. 147 (1899), 'I was once of opinion that notions about a divinity had been derived from the whites and transmitted among the blacks hither and thither, but I am now convinced that this idea was here before European occupation.' But (pp. 130, 131) Dr. Mathew gives his reasons for thinking importation from Indian mythology possible. But as they rest on his decipherment of certain marks, which may be meant for characters, in Sir George Grey's copy of an Australian wall-painting, the evidence is weak. (Grey, _North-west and Western Australia_, i. 201 _et seq_.). Supposing the characters to be Sumatran, it would be necessary to show that the people of Sumatra do represent their otiose deity as in the painting copied by Grey. Page 58, line 6, _for_ rights _read_ rites. Page 75, note 1, _for_ Primitive Culture, i. 379, 1871, _read_ Primitive Culture, i. 419, 1873. Page 112, note 1. 'But so there were in 1000 A.D.' I have been informed that there was no special fear of the end of the world in 1000 A.D. M. Cumont gives good reasons for holding that the martyrdom of St. Dasius in 303 was on record between 362 and 411 (_Man_, May 1901, No. 53). Page 120. 'Ctesias flourished rather earlier than Berosus, who is about 200 B.C.;' _for_ 200 _read_ 260. Ctesias was a contemporary of Herodotus. [All necessary corrections have been made.--M. D.] CONTENTS I. SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION II. THE THEORY OF LOAN-GODS; OR BORROWED RELIGION III. MAGIC AND RELIGION IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH V. THE APPROACHES TO MR. FRAZER'S THEORY I. THE EVOLUTION OF GODS II. THE ALLEGED MORTALITY OF GODS III. RELIGIOUS REGICIDE IV. ANNUAL RELIGIOUS REGICIDE V. THE SATURNALIA VI. THE GREEK CRONIA VII. THE SACÆA VI. ATTEMPTS TO PROVE THE SACÆAN CRIMINAL DIVINE I. SACRIFICE BY HANGING. DOES IT EXIST? II. STAGES IN MR. FRAZER'S THEORY III. A POSSIBLE RECONCILIATION IV. THE SACÆA SUDDENLY CHANGES ITS DATE V. VARIOUS THEORIES OF THE VICTIM VII. ZAKMUK, SACÆA, AND PURIM I. HISTORICAL DIFFICULTY II. PERSIANS ARE NOT BABYLONIANS III. ORIGIN OF PURIM IV. IS PURIM PRE-EXILIAN OR POST-EXILIAN V. THEORY OF A HUMAN VICTIM AT PURIM VI. CONTRADICTORY CONJECTURE VII. A NEW THEORY OF THE VICTIM VIII. NEW GERMAN THEORY OF PURIM IX. ANOTHER NEW THEORY. HUMAN AND THE VICTIM VIII. MORDECAI, ESTHER, VASHTI, AND HAMAN I. ESTHER LOVED BY MORDECAI II. THE PERSIAN BUFFOON III. A HELPFUL THEORY OF MY OWN