Pleasures of | Thos. | | | Hope | Campbell | Mundell | 1050l. | R. Chambers. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Gertrude of | | | | Wyoming | Ditto | Ditto |1500 guineas | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Poems | Crabbe | Murray | 3000l. | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Irish Melodies | Thomas Moore| |500l. a year | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Spelling Book | Vyse | | 2200l. and | | | | 50l. a year | Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Philosophy of | | |1050l., 1st | Natural History | Smellie | |edition and | | | |50l. each | | | |after | Ditto -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Various | | | | (aggregate) | Goethe | |30,000 crowns| Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------- Ditto (ditto) |Chateaubriand| |500,000 francs| Ditto. -------------------+-------------+------------+--------------+------------- I perfectly agree with the suggestion of one of your correspondents, that, in a publication like yours, dealing with historic facts, the communications should not be anonymous, or made under _noms de guerre_. I therefore drop the initials with which I have signed previous communications, and append my name as suggested. ALEXANDER ANDREWS. * * * * * COINCIDENT LEGENDS. In the Scandinavian portion of the _Fairy Mythology_, there is a legend of a farmer cheating a Troll in an argument respecting the crops that were to be grown on the hill within which the latter resided. It is there observed that Rabelais tells the same story of a farmer and the Devil. I think there can be no doubt that these are not independent fictions, but that the legend is a transmitted one, the Scandinavian being the original, brought with them perhaps by the Normans. {592} But what are we to say to the actual fact of the same legend being found in the valleys of Afghanistan? Masson, in his _Narrative_, &c. (iii. 297.), when speaking of the Tajiks of Lughman, says,--