Excerpt from The Bab Ballads: With Which Are Included Songs of a SavoyardSome seven years since, I collected the most popular of the songs and ballads which I had written for the series of light Operas with which my name is associated, and published them under the title Of Songs of a Savoyard. It recently occurred to me that these songs had so much in common with The Bab Ballads that it might be advisable to weld the two books into one. This is, brie¿y, the history of the present volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.