CUSTOMS OF THE WORLD.
[To res Runes or Ise Srecrsros."1
Stn,,—As my friend Miee Montray Read, author of the article on the British Isles in Mr. Hutchinson's Customs of the World, is away from home and may not see the last number ..of the Spectator, I may perhaps be allowed to point out to 'your puzzled reviewer that thestatementthat English, parents :iii not attend their children's wedthngs iwchnrch for wherever the cerenniny May take place) refers, like the rest -of the article, to the-habits of the working classes. Some authorities for the statement are Chambere's Book of Days, Vol:I., p. 722; the Folklore Journal, Vol. IL, p. 246; my own Shropshire Folk- lore, p. 291; and Folk-Lore for 1897 (Vol. via., p. 91), where 'a recent case of the occurrence of the taboo, for such it almost
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