Introduction.--The inspiration of death in folk-poetry.--Nature in folk-songs.--Armenian folk-songs.--Venetian folk-songs.--Sicilian folk-songs.--Greek songs of Calabria.--Folk-songs of Provence.--The white paternoster.--The diffusion of ballads.--Songs for the rite of May.--The idea of fate in southern traditions.--Folk-lullabies.--Folk-dirges.