FRAZER, SIR James George, English an thropologist: b. Glasgow, Scotland, 1854. He became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed professor of social anthro pology at the University of Liverpool in 1907. His works are of the greatest importance in the study of anthropology, and particularly of religion and myth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and corresponding mem ber of the Royal Prussian Academy of Science. He has published a revised edition of 'Long's Sallust' (1884) • (1887) ; • 'The Golden Bough' (1890; 2d ed., 1900); 'Passages of the Bible chosen for their Literary Beauty and Interest) (1895; 2d ed., 1909) ; Description of Greece,' translated with a com mentary (1898; 2d ed., 1913) • (Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches' (1900) ; 'Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship' (1.905); 'Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Studies in the History of Oriental Religion' (1906; 2d ed., 1907; 3d ed.,
1914) ; 'Questions on the Customs. Beliefs, and Languages of Savages' (1907) ; 'The Scope of Social Anthropology' (1908) ' • 'Psyche's Task, a Discourse concerning the Influence of Super stition on the Growth of Institutions' (1909; 2d ed. 1913) ; 'Totemism and Exogamy> (1910) ; 'The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings' (1911); 'Taboo and the Perils of the Soul' (1911); 'The Dying God' (1911) ; 'Letters of William Cowper,' chosen and edited with a memoir and a few notes (1912); 'Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild' (1912); 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead' (Vol. I, 1913) ; 'The Scapegoat' (1913); 'Bal der the Beautiful> (1913); 'Essays of Joseph Addison,' chosen and edited with a preface and a few notes (1915); 'The Golden Bough' (Vol. XII, Bibliography and Index, 1915).