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AGE cannot wither nor custom stale Sir James Frazer's infinite erudition. The veteran of “The Golden Bough” can still charm the reader's way through an arid wilderness of facts with the melody of his silver tongue and with sparks of humour, so that the traveller reaches his journey's end (somewhat abruptly) without fatigue. The unwonted shortness of this work is not a sign of flagging industry, for it is merely an instalment of a bigger work.
The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion: Lectures delivered on the William Wyse Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1932–1933.
By Sir James George Frazer. Pp. viii + 204. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.
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HOCART, A. The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion: Lectures delivered on the William Wyse Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1932–1933. Nature 132, 658–659 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132658a0
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