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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