Uniform with this Volume

POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME

First Series.   Ballads of Romance and Chivalry.

‘It forms an excellent introduction to a sadly neglected source of poetry.... We ... hope that it will receive ample encouragement.’—Athenæum.

‘It will certainly, if carried out as it is begun, constitute a boon to the lover of poetry.... We shall look with anxiety for the following volumes of what will surely be the best popular edition in existence.’—Notes and Queries.

‘There can be nothing but praise for the selection, editing, and notes, which are all excellent and adequate. It is, in fine, a valuable volume of what bids fair to be a very valuable series.’—Academy.

‘The most serviceable edition of the ballads yet published in England.’—Manchester Guardian.

Second Series.   Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth.

‘Even more interesting than the first.’—Athenæum.

‘The augmenting series will prove an inestimable boon.’—Notes and Queries.

‘It includes many beautiful and well-known ballads, and no pains have been spared by the editor in producing them, so far as may be, in their entirety.’—World.

‘The second volume ... carries out the promise of the first.... Even after Professor Kittredge’s compressed edition of Child, ... Mr. Sidgwick’s work abundantly justifies its existence.’—Manchester Guardian.

The “First Series” is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text #20469. The “Second Series” is in preparation as of February 2007.

Sidgwick’s ‘Popular Ballads,’ Series III., 1906.

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