Congress of the History of ReligionsAuthor(s): J. Estlin CarpenterSource: Folklore, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun. 30, 1908), pp. 228-230Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1253845 .

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CORRESPONDENCE.

CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS.

Probably most of your readers are already aware that the third International Congress of the History of Religions will be held at Oxford from Tuesday to Friday, Sept. 15-18, 1908.

The following are the arrangements, so far as yet made: On Monday evening, Sept. 14th, Prof. Gardner and Dr. A. J.

Evans will receive the members at the Ashmolean Museum, at 8.45 p.m.

The Congress will assemble on Tuesday 15th, at 9.45 a.m., in the Examination Schools, when the representatives of Universities and Academies, British and Foreign, will be welcomed on behalf of the Local Committee and the University. The Hon. President, Dr. E. B. Tylor, will (it is hoped) introduce the

President, the Right Hon. Sir A. C. Lyall, K.C.B., D.C.L., who will deliver his address. At 11.30 the sections will be con- stituted under their various Presidents. The Sections will be nine in number:

I. Religions of the Lower Culture (including Mexico and

Peru): Pres. Mr. E. Sidney Hartland.

II. Religions of the Chinese and Japanese: Pres. Prof. Herbert A. Giles (Cambridge).

III. Religion of the Egyptians. Iv. Religions of the Semites: Pres. Prof. M. Jastrow, Jun.

(Philadelphia). v. Religions of India and Iran: Pres. Prof. J. W. Rhys

Davids (Manchester).

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Correspondence. 229

vi. Religions of the Greeks and Romans: Pres. Monsieur Salomon Reinach.

vii. Religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs: Pres. Prof. Sir John Rhys (Oxford).

viiI. The Christian Religion: Pres. Rev. Prof. W. Sanday (Oxford).

Ix. The Method and Scope of the History of Religions. Besides the addresses of the several Presidents, papers are

expected from a large number of English and foreign scholars. The study of religious anthropology will be well represented. Papers have been promised by Count Goblet d'Alviella on "Les Relations de la Magie et de la Religion"; Mr. Edward Clodd on "Preanimistic Stages in Religion"; Rev. Principal Garvie on "The Religious Consciousness in its Earliest

Phases"; Mr. R. R. Marett on "The Conception of Mana"; Prof. Preuss on "Astral Religion in Mexico"; Mr. W. W. Skeat on "Malay Religion"; and Mr. N. W. Thomas on "Sacrifice." In addition to other promises it is hoped that

papers will also be contributed by Dr. Frazer, Mr. A. E.

Crawley, and Mr. Gomme. In other sections members will have the advantage of hearing

eminent scholars like M. Michael Revon, Mr. Suzuki; Dr. Budge; Prof. Newberry, Baron von Bissing, Prof. Capart, Prof. Loret; Prof. Sayce, Prof. Paul Haupt, Prof. von Orelli and Prof. Bertholet (President and Hon. Sec. respectively of the Basle

Congress in 1904), Prof. Margoliouth, and Prof. E. Montet; Prof. Hillebrandt, Prof. Deussen, Prof. Jacobi, Prof. de la Valle Poussin, Prof. Arnold, Prof. Barnett, Prof. Oltramare, Prof. A. W.

Jackson, Prof. J. C. Chatterji, Prof. Moulton; Prof. Franz

Cumont, Dr. A. J. Evans, Principal Jevons, Prof. Eissler, Dr. Farnell, Mr. W. Warde Fowler; Prof. S6derblom, Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, Prof. H. M. B. Reid; Prof. E. von Dobschtitz, Prof. O. Pfleiderer, M. Guimet, Prof. G. Bonet-Maury, Prof. F. C. Porter.

Members' tickets (for Ladies as well as Gentlemen), entitling to admission to all Meetings, Receptions, etc., and to a copy of the Transactions, LC.I each. Ladies' tickets, entitling to admission to all Meetingsi Receptions, etc. (but not to the Transactions),

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230 Correspondence.

Ios. The Congress will be received by the Mayor and Mayoress at the Town Hall on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. I5th. Garden-parties will be given by Rev. Profs. Driver and Sanday at Christ Church, and by Dr. Farnell and Mr. Marett at Exeter

College; and there will be evening receptions at the Pitt-Rivers Museums and the Schools. Applications for tickets, which should be accompanied by Cheque or Postal Order, should be made only to Messrs. Barclay & Co., Old Bank, Oxford. The Congress will adhere to the Fundamental Rule adopted in Paris in i9oo: "Les travaux et les discussions du Congrbs auront essentiellement un caractere historique. Les pol•miques d'ordre confessionel ou dogmatique sont interdites."

All communications concerning the Congress, offers of papers, etc., should be sent to either of the Hon. Secretaries, viz., to my colleague, L. R. Farnell, D.Litt., 191 Woodstock Rd., Oxford, or to myself.

J. ESTLIN CARPENTER.

Io09 Banbury Road, Oxford.

A MACASSAR VERSION OF CINDERELLA.

(Vol. xviii. p. I91.)

In connection with Miss Cox's article on additional variants of

Cinderella, it may be well to call attention to a very interesting version from the Indonesian area, overlooked, apparently, by Mr. Newell1 in his comparative note on the Filipino versions collected by Gardner. The volume in which it occurs is about the last place one might expect to find a representative of this famous story, viz., T. J. Bezemer's2 recent work on Indonesian folk and animal tales, etc. At pages 373-375 of this book is to be found the German text of "Die Makassarische Aschenbr6del" (The Macassar Cinderella), translated from the Dutch of Dr. B. F. Matthes in the Bi/dragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde

'Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. xix. pp. 272-280. 2 Volksdichtung aus Indonesein. Sagen, Tierfabeln und MIiirchen. Haag,

1904, pp. viii, 430.

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