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Very condensed and in somewhat technical language; but the work of one of the greatest masters of the subject. A full Bibliography is appended to the various chapters. Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte, von P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye. Freiburg, 1887. The English translation has an altered title, viz. Manual of the Science of Religion, Longmans, 1891.

Delitzsch is very interesting; but Baudissin's 'Studien zur Semitischen Religionsgeschichte' would come closer to what you need. There are several other important Germans Schrader, Bunsen, Duncker, Hommel, and so on." "Unluckily I I don't read German readily," Theron explained with diffidence.

Dasent, Burnt Njal; or Life in Iceland at the end of the tenth century. Mallet's Northern Antiquities. Thorpe, Northern Mythology. De la Saussaye, The Religion of the Teutons, 1902, the most comprehensive statement of the whole subject. Ralston, Songs of Russian People, and Russian Folk Tales. Simrock, Handb. der deutschen Mythologie. R. M. Meyer, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, 1910.

Smend's Alttestamentliche Religionsgeschichte. Stade, Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments, 1905. For a criticism of the critical historians the reader may consult The Early Religion of Israel, by Prof. James Robertson. Prof. Valeton, Die Israeliten, in De la Saussaye. Schürer, History of the Jewish People in the Time of Christ, 1885-90.

Without the γάμος, however, it is hard to see what the βασίλιννα and γεραιραί had to do in the festival; and this is the view of Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen, pp. 391-3; Gruppe in Iwan Müller, Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte, i. 33; Farnell, Cults, v. 217.