In modern times the Folk-Lore Society of England and America has been established.  Now almost every nation has its folk-lore society and folk-tales are being collected all over the world.  Altogether probably Russia has collected fifteen hundred such tales, Germany twelve hundred, Italy and France each one thousand, and India seven hundred.  The work of the Grimms, ended in 1859, was continued by Emanuel Cosquin, who, in his Popular Tales of Lorraine, has made the most important recent contribution to folklore,—­important for the European tale and important as showing the relation of the European tale to that of India.

The principal recent collections of folk-lore are:—­

Legends and Fairy Tales of Ireland.  Croker. 1825. Welsh and Manx Tales.  Sir John Rhys. 1840-. Popular Rhymes of Scotland.  Chambers. 1847. Tales of the West Highlands.  Campbell. 1860. Popular Tales from the Norse.  Dasent. 1862. Zulu Nursery Tales.  Callaway. 1866. Old Deccan Days.  Frere. 1868. Fireside Tales of Ireland.  Kennedy. 1870. Indian Fairy Tales.  Miss Stokes. 1880. Buddhist Birth Stories.  Rhys Davids. 1880. Kaffir Folk-Lore.  Theal. 1882. Folk-Tales of Bengal.  Day. 1883. Wide Awake Stories.  Steel and Temple. 1884. Italian Popular Tales.  Crane. 1885. Popular Tales of Lorraine.  Cosquin. 1886. Popular Tales and Fictions.  Clouston. 1887. Folk-Tales of Kashmir.  Knowles. 1887. Tales of Ancient Egypt.  Maspero. 1889. Tales of the Sun.  Mrs. Kingscote. 1890. Tales of the Punjab.  Steel. 1894. Jataka Tales.  Cowell. 1895. Russian Folk-Tales.  Bain. 1895. Cossack Fairy Tales.  Bain. 1899. New World Fairy Book.  Kennedy. 1906. Fairy Tales, English, Celtic, and Indian.  Joseph Jacobs.
  1910-11.

This brings the subject down to the present time.  The present-day contributions to folk-lore are found best in the records of the Folk-lore Society, published since its founding in London, in 1878; and daily additions, in the folk-lore journals of the various countries.

REFERENCES

     Adams, Oscar Fay:  The Dear Old Story-Tellers.  Lothrop.

     Ashton, John:  Chap-Books of the 18th Century.  Chatto &
       Windus.  London, 1882.

     Bunce, John T.:  Fairy Tales, Origin and Meaning.  Macmillan,
       1878.

     Chamberlain, A.F.:  The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought. 
       Macmillan.

     Clouston, W.A.:  Popular Tales and Fictions.  Edinburgh,
       Blackwoods, 1887.

     Cyclopaedia:  “Mythology.” Encyclopaedia Britannica.

     Cox, Miss Roalfe:  Cinderella.  Introduction by Lang.  Nutt, 1892.

     Dasent, George W.:  Popular Tales from the Norse.  Introduction. 
       Routledge.