Transcriber's Note
Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently corrected. Variable, archaic and unusual spelling as well as apparent printer's errors have been retained as they appear in the original. The poems "Bohemians, hail!" and "Sonnet on shares" do not appear in the table of contents.
SPOOK BALLADS
BY
W. THEODORE PARKES.
Crown 8vo, Cloth gilt, 5s.
Popular Edition 2s.
LONDON:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Limited.
And all Booksellers.
CHEERS OF THE PRESS!
"Ingoldsby, Thomas Hood, W. S. Gilbert,—these are the names that occur to one in trying to 'place' Mr. Parkes after reading this volume of rollicking, verbal and pictorial fun. The Spook Ballads are in no sense imitations of any of those classics of the comic muse, yet we find in them the same thorough abandonment to 'the humour of the thing.'"—The Publisher's Circular.