Book Reviews (1990)

PISSING IN THE SNOW AND OTHER OZARK FOLKTALES, By VANCE RANDOLPH. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Books. 1986. 153 pp. £4.95 Bibliography. ISBN 0-252-01364-6. Reviewed by Gillian Bennett. TALKING FOLKLORE. Volume I. Number I. Autumn 1986 (British Folk Studies Forum; London). ISSN 0950-7493. Pp. 44. Annual subscription £6.00 (Britain and Ireland), £8.00 (overseas). Reviewed by Venetia Newall. PAROLES PAIENNES: MYTHE ET FOLKLORE DES FRERES GRIMM A P. SAINTYVES. By NICOLE BELMONT. Imago, Paris, 1986. 98FF. 179pp., pb. ISBN 2-902702-35-3. Reviewed by Hugh Shields. MONSTERS WITH IRON TEETH. (Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Vol. Ill), edited by GILLIAN BENNETT and PAUL SMITH. Sheffield Academic Press. 1988 £8.95 Paperback, pp. 243. ISBN 1 85075 119 6. Reviewed by Jon Erickson. VAMPIRES, BURIAL AND DEATH: FOLKLORE AND REALITY. By PAUL BARBER. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1988. 236 pp. £14.95 ISBN 0-300-04126-8. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson. THRESHING IN THE MIDWEST 1820–1940 By J. SANDFORD RIKOON 165mm x 243mm 214pp 6 figs. 6 tables, illustrations. Indiana University Press, 1988. $35, ISBN 0 253 3604711. Reviewed by George Monger. CANÇONER TRADICIONAL DEL BAIX AMP I EL MONTSANT. By GABRIEL FERRÉ, SALVADOR REBÉS & ISABEL RUIZ. Pub. EDITORIAL ALTA FULLA. CENTRE DE LECTURA DE REUS. Barcelona, 1988. No price, pp 232. Bibliography, discography. Ills. ISBN 84-86556-67-8. Reviewed by Ian Carter. THE USE OF TRADITION: Essays Presented to G. B. Thompson. Ed by ALAN GAILEY. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1988. £9.95 pp. 138. ISBN 0902588 35 4. Reviewed by George Monger. EXODUS TO ALFORD. By STANLEY ROBERTSON. Balnain Books, Inverness, 1988. £7.95. pp. 216. Glossary. Notes on pictures. List of stories and storytellers. Fourteen colour illustrations and many line drawings. ISBN 0 9509792 6 0. Reviewed by Sheila Douglas. CHAUCER AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING by LEONARD MICHAEL KOFF. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988. $35.00. pp x + 298. Reviewed by Sally Mapstone. POPULAR DRAMA IN NORTHERN EUROPE IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES Edited by FLEMMING G. ANDERSEN, JULIA McGREW, TOM PETTIT and REINHOLD SCHRÖDER. Odense University Press. Odense. 1988. D.kr. 170,00. pp. 252 Illus. ISBN 87 7492 671 3. Reviewed by Alan J. Fletcher. PARADES AND POWER: STREET THEATRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA. By SUSAN G. DAVIS. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1988. $10.95 paperback, pp xi + 235. Illus. ISBN 0 520 06374 0. Reviewed by Roy Judge. WELSH LEGENDS AND FAIRY LORE. By D. PARRY-JONES. Batsford, London, 1988. £11.95. pp. 181. Bibliography. Illustrations. ISBN 0 7134 5873 9. Reviewed by Brynley F. Roberts. IRISH FOLK WAYS. By E. ESTYN EVANS. Routledge London and New York. 1988. £6.95 pp. 324. Full index. Bibliography. Illus. ISBN 0 7100 1344 2 (c). 0 415 00225 7 (p). Reviewed by Seamas Mac Philib. THE HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIE OF GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH: II. THE FIRST VARIANT VERSION (A CRITICAL EDITION). Edited by NEIL WRIGHT. Boydell and Brewer Ltd. Cambridge. 1989. £35.00 cxxi + 215 pp. Index Nominum. Index Locorum. ISBN 0 850991 2124. Reviewed by Juliette Wood. THE STORY OF MERIADOC, KING OF CAMBRIA (HISTORIA MERIADOCI, REGIS CAMBRIE). Edited and translated by MILDRED LEAKE DAY. Vol. 50, Series A: Garland Library of medieval literature. Garland Publishing Inc. New York and London. 1988. $37.00 lvi + 215 pp. Bibliography. ISBN 0-8240-8479-9. Reviewed by Juliette Wood. AN ARTHURIAN READER, SELECTIONS FROM ARTHURIAN LEGEND, SCHOLARSHIP AND STORY. Selected and edited by JOHN MATTHEWS. The Aquarian Press. 1988. £14.95. 348 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Reviewed by Juliette Wood. THE JACOBITE SONG: POLITICAL MYTH AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. By WILLIAM DONALDSON. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988. Pp. X + 165, bibliography, index, tunes. £12.95 (HB), 7.95 (fl). Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen. IN THE TROUBLESOME TIMES. Edited by ROSALIE E. BOSANQUET. The Spreddon Press, Stockfield, 1989. Hardback £11.95 Paperback £5.95. 225pp. Indices ISBN Hardcover 1871739020, Paperback 1871739039. Reviewed by Christine Stevens. SIGNWRITTEN ART by A. J. LEWERY. Newton Abbot and London: David and Charles, 1989, £14.95 144pp. ISBN 0-7153-9273-5. Reviewed by James Ayres.