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...first number of the new Journal of American Folk-Lore, published by the American Folk-Lore Society, of which Professor Childs is president, contains several interesting papers, besides publishing the officers, members and rules of the society...
Prof. F. J. Child has been elected president of "The American Folk-lore Society," which has for its object the study of folk-lore in general and in particular the collection and publication of the falk-lore of North America...
Sometimes we hear the learned lore...
...died at his residence last Friday, May 29th. Mr. Buckingham was born in Boston in December, 1829, was educated at the Boston Latin School under the instruction of Epes S. Dixwell, and graduated at Harvard College in 1857. He was a man of wide attainments in literary and classical lore. At the time of his decease he was and had been for several years a teacher in the English High School in Boston, in the department of French literature. He was also a prominent member of the visiting committee of our college on languages...
...very successfully shows that "Confest ignorance is the way to science." If, then, the vanity of dogmatising is not overrated, we are in a fair way, I think, of becoming very much more learned on this subject of dreams. May we not hope that, in the near future, dream lore will no longer be superstition in regard to dreams; that before many years have passed we shall know so much about dreams that we may make them to order; and that the dream book will have vanished, except from the work basket of some aged country maiden of seventy years...