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FLORENCE HARKNESS BIBLICAL LIBRARY

R

ELIGIONS

A

NCIENT AND

M

ODERN

THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT

BRITAIN AND IRELAND

RELIGIONS : ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Price

IS

. net tier

ANIMISM.

B y E

DWARD

C

LODD

, Author of

of

B y J

AMES

A

LLANSON

P

ICTON

, Author of

The

of the

Universe.

THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA.

By Professor

LL. D., Professor oi Chinese in the University

of Cambridge.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE.

B y J

ANE

H

ARRISON

, Lecturer at

College, Cambridge,

Author of

to

of

Religion.

ISLAM IN INDIA.

By T. W.

Assistant Librarian at the

Office,

Author of

The

of

ISLAM.

B y S

YED

A

MEER

C.I.E., late of

High Court

of Judicature in Bengal, Author of

The Spirit of

and

The

of

MAGIC AND FETISHISM.

By Dr. A. C.

F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cam-

bridge University.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.

By Professor W. M.

F.R.S.

THE RELIGION OF

AND ASSYRIA.

B y T

HEOPHILUS

G . P

INCHES

, late of the British Museum.

B U D D H I S M .

By Professor R

HYS

late Secretary of The Royal

Asiatic Society.

HINDUISM.

By Dr. L. D.

of the Department of Oriental Printed

Books and MSS., British Museum.

SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.

B y W

ILLIAM

A.

Joint Editor of the

English

Dictionary.

CELTIC RELIGION.

By Professor A

NWYL

, Professor of Welsh at University College,

Aberystwyth.

THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

By

C

HARLES

S

QUIRE

, Author of

The Mythology

of

JUDAISM.

B y I

SRAEL

Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cam-

bridge University, Author of

Jewish Life in the

P R I M I T I V

E

C

H R I S T I A

N

I

T

Y

.

By J

OHN

S

UTHERLAND

B

LACK

,

Joint Editor of the

SHINTOISM.

MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIANITY.

ZOROASTRIANISM.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT

Other

to follow.

THE MYTHOLOGY OF

ANCIENT BRITAIN

IRELAND

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OF

L O N D O N

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Edinburgh: T. and A.

Printers to His Majesty

T

HIS

little book does not profess in any way to

supplement the volume upon Celtic

Religion

already contributed to this series.

It merely aims

at calling the attention of the general reader to
the mythology of our own country, that as yet

little-known store of Celtic tradition which reflects
the religious conceptions of our earliest articulate

ancestors.

Naturally, its limits compel the writer

to dogmatise, or, at most, to touch but very briefly

upon disputed points, to ignore

fascinating

side-issues, and to refrain from putting forward

any suggestions of his own.

But he has based

his work upon the studies of the leading Celtic

scholars, and he believes that the reader

may

safely accept it as in line with the latest re-

search.

c. s.

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