THE HAWTHORNE CLASSICS BALLADS AND EDITED BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., PH.D. YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK KI 2 4 285 THE HAWTHORNE CLASSICS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS Edited by Edward Everett HALE, JR., Ph.D., Professor of English Examples from our four greatest essayists, that can also be AMERICAN STORIES. 285 pages. Eight great American short stories from Washington Irving BALLADS AND BALLAD POETRY. 270 pages. Genuine ballads of the olden time with the true ballad flavor, ENGLISH ESSAYS. 254 pages. Some are By Lamb, Addison, Goldsmith, and Thackeray. ENGLISH STORIES. 254 pages. Five great English stories of varied type. This volume with GREEK MYTHS IN ENGLISH DRESS. 256 pages. easy Six immortal Greek myths retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, LONGER NARRATIVE POEMS. 271 pages. Ten of the best narrative poems of the nineteenth century, SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES. 320 pages. A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and The HC:B-BP-2 Price per volume 80 cents. WORLD BOOK COMPANY YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 2126 PRAIRIE AVENUE, CHICAGO Copyright, 1902, by World Book Company. All rights reserved THIS book deals with the ballad as a kind of poetry, with as little as possible of antiquarian or linguistic or even literary detail. In pursuing this end I have found myself especially aided by Mr. John Geddie's book on "The Balladists in the Famous Scots Series. He seems to me to have expressed the real quality of the ballads better than most who have published on the subject, and I have been a good deal guided by his ideas in my selections for the first part of this book. Like everybody else who deals with ballads, I am under great obligations to Francis James Child. The text of the old ballads in the first part comes always from his earlier collections, although I have made emendations from different sources. E. E. H., JR. ✔ IRANSFER FEB 4-1944 iii |