‘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. 1904.
‘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.