AFANASIEF (A.N.). Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazki[7] [Russian Popular Tales]. 8 pts. Moscow, 1863-60-63. Narodnuiya Russkiya Legendui[8] [Russian Popular Legends]. Moscow, 1859. Poeticheskiya Vozzryeniya Slavyan na Prirodu [Poetic Views of the Slavonians about Nature].[9] 3 vols. Moscow, 1865-69. KHUDYAKOF (I.A.). Velikorusskiya Skazki [Great-Russian Tales]. Moscow, 1860. CHUDINSKY (E.A.). Russkiya Narodnuiya Skazki, etc. [Russian Popular Tales, etc.]. Moscow, 1864. ERLENVEIN (A.A.). Narodnuiya Skazki, etc. [Popular Tales, collected by village schoolmasters in the Government of Tula]. Moscow, 1863. RUDCHENKO (I.). Narodnuiya Yuzhnorusskiya Skazki [South-Russian Popular Tales].[10] Kief, 1869. Most of the other works referred to are too well known to require a full setting out of their title. But it is necessary to explain that references to Grimm are as a general rule to the "Kinder- und Hausmärchen," 9th ed. Berlin, 1870. Those to Asbjörnsen and Moe are to the "Norske Folke-Eventyr," 3d ed. Christiania, 1866; those to Asbjörnsen only are to the "New Series" of those tales, Christiania, 1871; those to Dasent are to the "Popular Tales from the Norse," 2d ed., 1859. The name "Karajich" refers to the "Srpske Narodne Pripovijetke," published at Vienna in 1853 by Vuk Stefanovich Karajich, and translated by his daughter under the title of "Volksmärchen der Serben," Berlin, 1854. By "Schott" is meant the "Walachische Mährchen," Stuttgart und Tubingen, 1845, by "Schleicher" the "Litauische Märchen," Weimar, 1857, by "Hahn" the "Griechische und albanesische Märchen," Leipzig, 1864, by "Haltrich" the "Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen," Berlin, 1856, and by "Campbell" the "Popular Tales of the West Highlands," 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1860-62. A few of the ghost stories contained in the following pages appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine" for August 1872, and an account of some of the "legends" was given in the "Fortnightly Review" for April 1, 1868. FOOTNOTES: [1] So our word "book," the German _Buch_, is derived from the _Buche_ or beech tree, of which the old Runic staves were formed. Cf. _liber_ and βίβλος. [2] "Russische Volksmärchen in den Urschriften gesammelt und ins Deutsche übersetzt von A. Dietrich." Leipzig, 1831. [3] "Russian Popular Tales," Chapman and Hall, London, 1857. [4] "Die ältesten Volksmärchen der Russen. Von J. N. Vogl." Wien, 1841. [5] Such as the "Orient und Occident," "Ausland," &c. [6] Professor Reinhold Köhler, who is said to be preparing a work on the Skazkas, in co-operation with Professor Jülg, the well-known editor and translator of the "Siddhi Kür" and "Ardshi Bordschi Khan." [7] In my copy, pt. 1 and 2 are of the 3d, and pt. 3 and 4 are of the 2d edition. By such a note as "Afanasief, i. No. 2," I mean to refer to the second story of the first part of this work.