In the first part of this paper, Kelly reports pseudo-scientific fantasies which he does not exactly endorse. At the same time he gives one the impression that he does not completely reject them either. We are told, following Bellamy, about a moonless age during which the civilization of Atlantis, Lemuria and the Mediterranean Basin flourished; Ward, in what the author calls 'an interesting study', correlated sexual periodic activity in 'blond and brunette races' with phases of the moon and believed that for a blond race the period of increased sexual activity is the full moon, for the brunette race the new moon. Besides reporting these 'curiosa' the author has also a very meager collection of folklore data on lunar sympathy and related subjects. The final conclusion is that the moon is an 'ambivalent symbol for good or evil'.

The reviewer got the impression that the author did not even read the basic literature about the folklore of the moon.1