The Journal Of American Folk Lore 1925 Vol 24 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1925, Vol. 24 To this theory, by far the most important contribution to ballad study (excepting, of course, the great Child collection) that has been made in our time, I shall have to return in a few minutes. I pass on here to a brief statement of two opinions that have been formulated since the publication of The Beginnings of Poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.