III. _THE FABLES OF BIDPAI_; OR, THE MORALL PHILOSOPHIC OF DONI: Drawne out of the auncient writers, a work first compiled in the Indian tongue. Englished out of Italian by THOMAS NORTH, Brother to the Right Honorable Sir ROGER NORTH, Knight, Lord NORTH of Kyrtheling, 1570. Now again edited and induced by JOSEPH JACOBS, together with a Chronologico-Biographical Chart of the translations and adaptations of the Sanskrit Original, and an Analytical Concordance of the Stories. With a full-page Illustration by EDWARD BURNE JONES, A.R.A., Frontispiece from a 16th century MS. of the Anvari Suhaili, and facsimiles of Woodcuts in the Italian Doni of 1532. (lxxxii. 264 pp.) 1888. The few remaining copies, 12_s._ "We have nothing but praise to bestow upon this reprint, which forms the latest volume of Mr. Nutt's delightful 'Bibliothèque de Carabas.'... With its scholarly disquisition and its lovely paper and type, the book makes an appeal which will, in many quarters at least, be irresistible."—_Notes and Queries._ IV-V. _THE FABLES OF ÆSOP_, as first printed by W. CAXTON in 1484. Now again edited and induced by J. JACOBS. With Introductory Verse by Mr. ANDREW LANG. 2 Vols. 1890. £1, 1_s._ VI. _THE ATTIS OF CAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS._ Translated into English Verse, with Dissertations on the Myth of Attis, on the Origin of Tree-Worship, and on the Galliambic Metre. By GRANT ALLEN, B.A., formerly Postmaster of Merton College, Oxford. (xvi. 154 pp.) 1892. 7_s._ 6_d._ Notes [1] Livy, x. 47, 7, _Ep._ 11; Val. Max., I. viii. 2; Strabo, xii. p. 567; Ovid, _F._, i. 291; _M._, xv. 622; Oros, iii. 22; Lactant., _Inst._, II. vii. 13; Arnob., vii. 44; Augustin, _C. D._, iii. 17; Aurel. Vict., _De V. Ill._, 25; Dion., v. 13; Pliny, _N. H._, 29, 16. [2] Schrader, _Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples_, p. 162. [3] _Religionsgeschichte_, ii. 203. [4] Meyer, _Indogermanische Mythen_, ii. p. 612. [5] Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_^2, iii. p. 2. [6] Mommsen, _History of Rome_, i. 173. [7] _Ibid._; _cf._ Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v. _Ianus_. [8] Rochholz, _Deutscher Glaube_, ii. 136. [9] Wuttke, _Deutscher Volksaberglaube_^2, § 57. [10] _Ibid._, § 177, 388. [11] _Ibid._, § 395; _cf._ Pliny, _N. H._, 28, 86. [12] Marquardt, iii. 6. [13] De la Saussaye, ii. 203. [14] Marquardt, p. 7. [15] De la Saussaye, i. 53. [16] Marquardt, p. 6. [17] _Folk-Lore_, vol. ii. p. 235. [18] Marquardt, p. 25. [19] "Chez les Chinois _Ti_ est bien et uniquement la terre ... qui n'a aucun personalité, aucun aspect anthropologique."—De Rialle, _Mythologie Comparée_, i. 235. As in Rome, so in China, though the sky advanced to the rank of a spirit, the earth remained a fetich.