The Introductions, etc., to the Collections of Ballads in List B.
1861. _David Irving._ History of Scottish Poetry.
1871. _Thomas Warton._ History of English Poetry, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt.
4 vols.
1875. _Andrew Lang._ Article in Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th edition),
vol. iii.
1876. _Stopford Brooke._ English Literature. New edition, enlarged,
1897.
1883. _W. W. Newell._ Games and Songs of American Children. New York.
1887. _Andrew Lang._ Myth, Ritual, and Religion. 2 vols.
1893. _John Veitch._ History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. 2 vols.
1893. _F. J. Child._ Article 'Ballads' in Johnson's Cyclopaedia, vol. i.
pp. 464-6.
1895-97. _W. J. Courthope._ A History of English Poetry. Vols. i.
and ii.
1897. _G. Gregory Smith._ The Transition Period: being vol. iv. of
Periods of English Literature, ed. G. Saintsbury.
1898. _Andrew Lang_ in _Quarterly Review_ for July.
1901. _F. B. Gummere._ The Beginnings of Poetry.
1903. _E. K. Chambers._ The Mediaeval Stage. 2 vols.
1903. _Andrew Lang_ in _Folk-Lore_ for June.
1903. _J. H. Millar._ A Literary History of Scotland.