II.—NOTES ON THE STORIES CONTAINED IN VOLUME XV. By W. F. KIRBY.
History of the King's Son of Sind and the Lady Fatimah (pp. 1-18).
P. 3.—This mixture of seeds, &c., is a very common incident in folk-tales.
P. 7.—Compare the well-known incident in John xviii. 1-11, which passage, by the way, is considered to be an interpolation taken from the lost Gospel of the Hebrews.
History of the Lovers of Syria (pp. 21-36).
P. 18.—Divination by the flight or song of birds is so universal that it is ridiculous of Kreutzwald (the compiler of the Kalevipoeg) to quote the fact of the son of Kalev applying to birds and beasts for advice as being intended by the composers as a hint that he was deficient in intelligence.