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retain the old Aztek legend; for their souls must pa along a thin, slippery, quivering pole, spanning the great chasm between earth and the bright sunny hills of Paradise; good souls are aided by a good spirit, helped by the grave tires kept burning for several nights. The Polynesians have no river of death, but believe that souls pa through holes in the beach, and travel under the sea, escorted by a dog, much as in the Breton legend. [The Babylonian Ea also judged souls under the sea; and the idea is found even in the Book of Job. (xxvi, 5)—Ep.] The bridge idea, however, reached the And a man islanders before the Moslems came there (see Anthrop, Instit. Jowrnal, Jany.-June, 1902, p. 140). The Sikh still salutes you, on receiving alms in the Panjab, with the words “may father Nanak-shah take your boat safely over the River of Life.” Bridget. ‘The Keltik “bright” gode and saint.