Excerpt from Life in the Greenwood, Robin Hood Tales

The open road of literature has brought us into the greenwood where we meet the merry men of Robin Hood's band and other picturesque outlaws. The Spell of the greenwood falls upon us as it has upon English people Since Robin Hood ballads became current in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As the conditions of modern life grow more complex the charm of the free, out-of-door life in the forest be comes more rather than less. To portray this life and to show what a spell it cast over every one who came in contact with it, from king and knight to humblest yeoman, has been the aim of the present book.

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