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Folk Lore Club.At the meeting of the Folk Lore Club, last night, Mr. Hisa furnished several tales illustrating the religious myths, as well as some of the present customs of the Ainu race of Japan. Mr. Newell then gave many interesting comments on general folk lore...
Seminary of Economics. Child Labor in the Early Factories. Mr. Hisa. University...
Seminary of Economics. Child Labor in the Early Factories. Mr. Hisa. University...
Folk Lore Society.At the regular meeting of the Harvard Folk Lore Society, Mr. Kidder gave two interesting stories showing the peculiar mythology among the Ojibway Indians resulting from French-Canadian influence; one "The Beauty of the Prairie," and the other "The Story of the Cedar Knife." Mr. Hisa added a primitive Japanese legend entitled, "The Shining Princess...
...PEABODY and THOMAS WESTON, JR.Best general references: Sir Edwin Arnold, in New Review, No. 64 (Sept. 1894), pp. 221-236; M. Hisa, in Forum, XVIII, 9 (Oct. 1894) pp. 216-228; Henry Norman, in Contemporary Rev., No. 345 (Sept. 1894), pp. 305-317; Henry Norman, "Real Japan," (London 1892), chs. v. xii, xiii; D. W. Stevens, in No. Am. Review, CLIX, 3 (Sept. 1894), pp. 308-318; Poultney Bigelow, in speaker, X, 238 (July 21, 1894); Boston Herald Editorials, Sept. 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, Oct. 2; Arthur H. Smith, Chinese Characteristics, chs. xvii-xxiv...