Andrew Lang 
Modern Mythology (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This influential 1897 work on comparative mythology takes on a scholarly controversy that raged at the time over the origin of mythology. Is myth “a disease of language, ” as Max Müller claimed, or does it, as the Lang argues here, reflect the spiritual needs of humans? Lang makes the case for an anthropological study of mythology.

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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scotsman, best known as the compiler of the dozen “colored”
Fairy Books. A poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, and historian, Lang was also a founder of psychical research. His books include
The Princess Nobody (1884)
, Ballads and Verses Vain (1884)
, Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
, In the Wrong Paradise (1886)
, The Mark of Cain (1886), and many more.