Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

INTRODUCTION

Many years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of _The Academy_ (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperbore...