hotograph of the Russian
story-teller that I have tried to produce, and not an ideal portrait.

* * * * *

The following are the principal Russian books to which reference has
been made:--

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
Hausmaerchen," 9th ed. Berlin, 1870. Those to Asbjoernsen and Moe are to
the "Norske Folke-Eventyr," 3d ed. Christiania, 1866; those to
Asbjoernsen 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
"Volksmaerchen der Serben," Berlin, 1854. By "Schott" is meant the
"Walachische Maehrchen," Stuttgart und Tubingen, 1845, by "Schleicher"
the "Litauische Maerchen," Weimar, 1857, by "Hahn" the "Griechische und
albanesische Maerchen," Leipzig, 1864, by "Haltrich" the "Deutsche
Volksmaerchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbuergen," 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 wer