BOOK OF BALLADS, Beverly Nichols, Complete
A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS
Selected and with an Introduction
by
BEVERLEY NICHOLS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The thanks and acknowledgments of the publishers are due tothe
following: to Messrs. B. Feldman & Co., 125 ShaftesburyAvenue, W.C. 2,
for "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"; to Mr. Rudyard Kipling andMessrs.
Methuen & Co. for "Mandalay" from Barrack RoomBallads; and to
the Executors of the late Oscar Wilde for "The Ballad of ReadingGaol."
"The Earl of Mar's Daughter", "The Wife of Usher's Well", "TheThree
Ravens", "Thomas the Rhymer", "Clerk Colvill", "Young Beichen","May
Collin", and "Hynd Horn" have been reprinted from Englishand
Scottish Ballads, edited by Mr. G. L. Kittredge and the lateMr. F.
J. Child, and published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.
The remainder of the ballads in this book, with the exceptionof "John
Brown's Body", are from Percy's Reliques, Volumes I andII.