Excerpt from Ballads of Hellas

Have been out of print for nearly forty years. I now re-publish them in the hope that they may again serve the purpose which they originally served - i. E. That, in running com mentaries on the text of the original accounts in Herodotus and Xenophon, they may meet, so far as they go, the di¿iculty that young learners experience in grasping the subject matter of their translation-work. The general idea of them was of course suggested by Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, but, so far as the spirit of them is concerned, there is more in them of Scott than of Macaulay. In those far-oi? Days I tested the ballads by actual use, and was quite convinced of the value of the principle on which they were written. So forth they fare again.

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