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AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN.

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Ballads are vocal portraits of the national mind. -CHARLES LAMB.
Ballads are the gypsy children of song. - LONGFELLOW.

English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

Edited by Prof. FRANCIS J. CHILD, of Harvard University.
Edition de Luxe,

Strictly limited to One Thousand Copies. In Eight Parts, each Part containing about 250 pages. Imperial quarto, per Part, $5.00.

Parts I. and II. now ready. Part III. in Press.

The Popular Ballads existing in the English language have never been collected into one body. It is now proposed to publish these ballads, so far as is possible, in their entirety and their purity. The collection will embrace every accessible independent version of every ballad, with the important variations of copies which appear to be of the same proximate derivation. All the manuscript collections or texts that exist in public libraries, and most (it is hoped all) of those that are known to be in private hands, all printed texts, and also a certain number of copies recently obtained from recitation, will be combined. No text will be taken at second hand, where it is possible to go back to the source, and an absolute fidelity to the best procurable text will be maintained.

Each ballad will have a proper preface, and in the case of those ballads which the English have in common with other nations, an account will be given of related traditions. The work has a general introduction, and will also contain full indexes and a careful glossary. It is printed in the best style of the Riverside Press, on extra laid paper. The work is published by subscription only.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

From the Nation (New York). The work has fallen into hands the most capable, in the long line of editors, of doing it with the most absolute accuracy and completeness that are now within reach.... It is doing the simplest act of justice to say that in his qualifications for this self-imposed and most laborious service to literature he finds no superiors among the living or the dead; nor would it probably be doing any injustice to any belonging to either of these two classes to say, further, that he finds no equal. His zeal and industry have, moreover, brought to light treasures that but for him would probably have perished. . . . Of the execution of the work, so far as it has already been done, it is scarcely possible to speak in terms of too high praise.

From The Critic (New York). Probably the Riverside Press has never turned out a volume handsomer and in better taste. The series will form a magnificent body of ancient English poetry, beautifully published, and edited in a most scholarly fashion."

There cannot be an event of greater note in the literary annals of this year than the appearance of Professor Child's "Ballads." The unwearied industry, the infinite pains, and the conscientious zeal with which every verse of every version of a Ballad is recorded, and collated, and estimated, are little short of marvelous, and must, for many a generation, make this easily the first among all similar collections. Under Professor Child's earnest hands these simple songs rise to the dignity of primeval myths; and their geographical distribution teaches new lessons in the essential unity of the poetic aspirations of all nations.

From the New York Times.

Professor Child brings together the results of the studies of at least a quarter of a century, and has been able to accomplish more for the single department of literature to which he has devoted himself than any other American, perhaps more then any living English scholar.

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