The reader of these Blackfoot stories will not fail to notice many curiousresemblances to tales told among other distant and different peoples. Theirsimilarity to those current among the 0jibwas, and other Eastern Algonquintribes, is sufficiently obvious and altogether to be expected, nor is it atall remarkable that we should find, among the Blackfeet, tales identicalwith those told by tribes of different stock far to the south; but it is alittle startling to see in the tale of the Worm Pipe a close parallel tothe classical myth of 0rpheus and Eurydice. In another of the stories is anincident which might have been taken bodily from the 0dyssey.

Well-equipped students of general folk-lore will find in these tales muchto interest them, and to such may be left the task of commenting on thiscollection.

ST0RIES 0F ADVENTURE

THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES