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Uniform with this Volume
POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME
First Series. Ballads ofRomance and Chivalry.
‘It forms an excellent introduction to a sadly neglected source ofpoetry.... We ... hope that it will receive ampleencouragement.’—Athenæum.
‘It will certainly, if carried out as it is begun, constitute a boonto the lover of poetry.... We shall look with anxiety for the followingvolumes of what will surely be the best popular edition inexistence.’—Notes and Queries.
‘There can be nothing but praise for the selection, editing, andnotes, which are all excellent and adequate. It is, in fine,a valuable volume of what bids fair to be a very valuableseries.’—Academy.
‘The most serviceable edition of the ballads yet published inEngland.’—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 inestimableboon.’—Notes and Queries.
‘It includes many beautiful and well-known ballads, and no pains havebeen spared by the editor in producing them, so far as may be, in theirentirety.’—World.
‘The second volume ... carries out the promise of the first.... Evenafter Professor Kittredge’s compressed edition of Child, ... Mr.Sidgwick’s work abundantly justifies its existence.’—ManchesterGuardian.
The “First Series” is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text#20469. The “Second Series” is in preparation as of February2007.
Sidgwick’s ‘Popular Ballads,’ Series III., 1906.
Colored for clarity:
Rivers Tweed, Tyne (blue)
Cities Edinburgh, Newcastle, Carlyle (red)
Border (brown)
POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK
Third Series. Ballads of
Scottish Tradition and
Romance
‘I wadna gi’e ae wheeple of a whaup for a’ the nichtingales inEngland.’
A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMIII
‘It is impossible that anythingshould be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho’ they areonly the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some