Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore

STORYOLOGY: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by BENJAMIN TAYLOR. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1900. To HER MEMORY IN WHOSE DEAR COMPANIONSHIP THESE PAPERS WERE WRITTEN PREFACE. The principal object of this Foreword is to inform the expert Folkloreist and the case-hardened Mythologist (comparative or otherwise) that the following pages are intended for those who, being neither expert nor case-hardened, come under that gracious and catholic term--general reader. The writer addresses not the scholiast, but the ordinary person who likes to read about what he has not time to study. Some portion of what is here printed has appeared in a once popular magazine now def…

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