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+First Series.+ Ballads of Romance and Chivalry.
'It forms an excellent introduction to a sadly neglected source of poetry.... We ... hope that it will receive ample encouragement.' --_Athenæum._
'It will certainly, if carried out as it is begun, constitute a boon to the lover of poetry.... We shall look with anxiety for the following volumes of what will surely be the best popular edition in existence.' --_Notes and Queries._
'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.
'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._