This is the third and concluding volume with this title. Sir James Frazer draws no conclusions at all from the extensive material he has presented in the book and simply adds the following paragraph to the material.

'Our survey of the facts, imperfect as it necessarily is, must here end; but enough perhaps has been said to convince us that fear of the spirits of the dead, whether men or animals, has haunted the mind of primitive man from time immemorial all over the world, from the Equator to the Poles, and we may surmise that the same fear has gone far to shape the moulds into which religious thought has run ever since feeble man began to meditate on the great mysteries by which our little life on earth is encompassed.'

There is nothing, therefore, for a reviewer to say except to pass the usual eulogy on the author's style and to express once more our gratitude for the invaluable material he has placed at our disposal in such a convenient form.