the assembling of the legend of my own state has been with no light matter, though it has been ba joyful business. Might i as editor spent of the last three in talking with people, in riding on horse back into remote places, in writing letters, in searching through Texad material, the result would no doubt be more satisfactory. The satisfaction, however, would not lie in an vanety or worth, of all the widely known legends of Texas are, i think, here presented, and the swelling size of this volume has already ruled out many as interesting as some of those included. The increased satisfaction resulting from further research would lie in the establishment of relationship bin the tracing out of origino and most of all in the fullness of the bibliography.