The Origin of Kingship

Abstract

WE learn from the preface to this work that it consists substantially of a series of extracts from the forthcoming third edition of the “Golden Bough.” Few, however, will feel called upon to quarrel with the author for this somewhat unusual procedure, for the “Golden Bough” is, to use a mixed metaphor, a work of many diverse threads, and the lay reader will be grateful for the chance here given him of following up one line of argument, itself far from simple, without the necessity of disentangling it from a mass of material and hypothesis linked together by the general theory there set forth.

Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship.

By Dr. J. G. Frazer Pp. viii + 309. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 8s. 6d. net.