which were inserted upon solicitations that could not have been
very easily refused; and even where the matter was unexceptionable,
it sometimes happened that it was printed from comparatively modern
broadsides, for want of time to consult earlier editions. In the
interval which has since elapsed, all these defects and short-
comings have been remedied. Several pieces, which had no
legitimate claims to the places they occupied, have been removed;
others have been collated with more ancient copies than the editor
had had access to previously; and the whole work has been
considerably enlarged. In its present form it is strictly what its
title-page implies - a collection of poems, ballads, and songs
preserved by tradition, and in actual circulation, amongst the
peasantry.

BEX, CANTON DE VAUD.
SWITZERLAND.


The present volume differs in many important particulars from the
former, of the deficiencies of which Mr. Dixon makes so frank an
avowal. It has not only undergone a careful revision, but has
received additions to an extent which renders it almost a new work.
Many of there accessions are taken from extremely rare originals,
and others are here printed for the first time, including amongst
the latter the ballad of EARL BRAND, a traditional lyric of great
antiquity, long familiar to the dales of the North of England; and
the DEATH OF QUEEN JANE, a relic of more than ordinary intesest.
Nearly forty songs, noted down from recitation, or gathered from
sources not generally accessible, have been added to the former
collection, illustrative, for the most part, of historical events,