17 APRIL 1915, Page 22

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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The lately completed third edition of The Golden Bough extends to eleven volumes, and there was an obvious necessity for an index that should make accessible the vast store of know- ledge contained in it. Sir James Frazer has now supplied us with one upon a liberal scale, and we have before us the bulky twelfth volume of the work, which bears the title of "Bibliography and General Index" (Macmillan and Co., 20s. net). Some idea of the scale of the book will be gathered when we say that the bibliography—the list of authorities upon which The Golden Bough is based—occupies some hundred and fifty pages, while the index itself fills nearly four hundred more.