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THIS bibliography of the works of Sir James Frazer has been produced by the subscription of friends and admirers and under the aegis of the Folklore Society in celebration of his eightieth birthday in January last. The work of Sir James Frazer is too well known for this list of his books, essays, lectures and addresses to call for extended comment. It chronicles a remarkable achievement. It may, perhaps, come as a surprise to those who are not intimately acquainted with the extent and variety of his writings to find that although “The Golden Bough” bulks large, it by no means expresses the whole of his interests, nor, notwithstanding its many editions, has it absorbed one tithe of the apparently boundless store of energy upon which he has drawn in the fifty-five years of his life as an author, “The Golden Bough” is extensive enough to have been the life-work of any ordinary individual—assuming that he had the genius to conceive it. Yet Sir James in his “Totemism and Exogamy”, his “Folklore of the Bible” and his study of immortality has produced three major works, any one of which would have taxed the industry and made the reputation of a research worker.
A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer, O.M.
Compiled by Theodore Besterman., with Portraits and Facsimiles, and a Note by Sir J. G. Frazer. Pp. xxi + 100 + 3 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer, . Nature 133, 857 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133857a0
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