Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Book of Ballads
The recent syllabus of the Board of Education for a four years' course in English suggests as a subject for the first year's instruction, English Ballads. This book has therefore been compiled to meet the needs of those teachers who find it more convenient to have such a selection ready to their hands than to collect the poems from the many excellent anthologies of miscellaneous verse that are already published for school use.
Many of the poems here presented are of Scottish origin, for it is a well-known fact that the old Scotch ballads are of higher poetic quality than those which remain in English. The Scotch dialect has, however, been slightly modified to suit the requirements of schools, and a glossary of unusual or archaic words has been supplied. Some of these ballads, being couched in dialogue form, are especially suitable for recitation; they are, in fact, miniature dramas, in which the various characters may well be represented by different members of the form.
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