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EDITED BY
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
IN FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME V
NEW YORK
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
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This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is anunabridged and unaltered republication of thework originally published by Houghton, Mifflin andCompany, as follows:
Vol. I—Part I, 1882; Part II, 1884
Vol. II—Part III, 1885; Part IV, 1886
Vol. III—Part V, 1888; Part VI, 1889
Vol. IV—Part VII, 1890; Part VIII, 1892
Vol. V—Part IX, 1894; Part X, 1898.
This edition also contains as an appendix toPart X an essay by Walter Morris Hart entitled“Professor Child and the Ballad,” reprinted intoto from Vol. XXI, No. 4, 1906 [New Series Vol.XIV, No. 4] of the Publications of the ModernLanguage Association of America.
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The delay of the publication of this Ninth Part of the English and Scottish Balladshas been occasioned partly by disturbances of health, but principally by the necessity ofwaiting for texts. It was notorious that there was a considerable number of ballads amongthe papers of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and it was an important object to get possessionof these, the only one of the older collections (with a slight exception) which I had not hadin my hands. An unexpected opportunity occurred upon the sale of Sharpe’s manuscriptslast year. All the ballads, including, besides loose sheets, several sets of pieces, were securedby Mr Macmath, and turned over to me (mostly in transcripts made by his own hand) withthat entire devotion to the interests of this undertaking which I have had so frequent occasionto signalize. A particularly valuable acquisition was the “old lady’s complete set ofballads,” mentioned by Scott in his correspondence with Sharpe, which was the original ofmost of the pieces in the Skene MS.
This Ninth Part completes the collection of English and Scottish ballads to the extentof my knowledge of sources, saving that William Tytler’s Brown-MS. has not beenrecovered. Copies, from Mrs Brown’s recitation, of all the pieces in this MS. are, however,elsewhere to be found, excepting in a single instance, and that of a ballad which is probablya variety of one or another here given in several forms (No 99 or No 158).
I have to thank Mr Macmath once more for his energetic and untiring co-operation;the Rev. William Findlay, of Sabine, for permission to make use of his ballad-gatherings;the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr P. Z. Round, Mr William Walker, and Mr R. BrinleyJohnson, for texts; Professor Wollner, of Leipzig, for the most liberal assistance inSlavic matters; Mr Kaarle Krohn, of the University of Helsing