Since the publication of the “Bab Ballads” a great deal of verse has been produced along the same general lines. Mr. Wallace Irwin’s “Nautical Ballads of a Landsman” are the most notable additions of recent years.
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A working knowledge of some foreign language—say French or German—is often very profitable to the verse maker. With a dictionary and a couple of text books he can make very good translations of the poetry of the language—work which may not bring a money return but which as an exercise is both interesting and valuable. The process is not complicated, though a good verse translation may be made as hard a task as any falling to the lot of the literary worker.