--Etymology of "Grasson"
--Lynch Law--"Talk not of Love"--The Butcher
Duke--Curfew--Robertson Struan 68
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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 78
Notices to Correspondents 78
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NOTES.
TRADITIONAL ENGLISH BALLADS.
The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a
lightsome one. Albeit the harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many,
still a stray sheaf may occasionally be found worth the having. But we must
be careful not to "pick up a straw."
One of your corespondents recommends, as an addition to the value of your
pages, the careful getting together of those numerous traditional ballads
that are still sometimes to be met with, floating about various parts of
the country. This advice is by no means to be disregarded, but I wish to
point out the necessity of the contributors to the undertaking knowing
something about ballad literature.
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