VICTOR HUGO.
ALFRED DE MUSSET, 1810-1857.
GERARD DE NERVAL, 1801-1855.
HENRI MURGER, 1822-1861.

BALLADS.

The originals of the French folk-songs here translated are to be
found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de Nerval,
and in the report of M. Ampere.

The verses called a 'Lady of High Degree' are imitated from a very
early chanson in Bartsch's collection.

The Greek ballads have been translated with the aid of the French
versions by M. Fauriel.



SPRING.
CHARLES D'ORLEANS, 1391-1465.



[The new-liveried year.--Sir Henry Wotton.]

The year has changed his mantle cold
Of wind, of rain, of bitter air;
And he goes clad in cloth of gold,