hand, it may be found a profitable exercise to commit a ballad to each member of the class, who shall hunt down the various English versions, and, as far as his power reaches, the foreign equivalents. But specific topical study can be put to advantage on the ballads themselves, the fifty collected here furnishing abundant data for discussion and illustration in regard to such subjects as the following:-- / Teutonic. Ballad Language | Dialectic. \ Idiomatic. / / Description. / Ballad Stanza | Peculiar Fitness. | \ Variations. | Ballad Music | / Metre. | Irregularities in | Accent. | \ Rhyme. \ Significance of \ Irregularities. / Introduction. / Dramatic Element. Ballad Structure | Involution of Plot. \ Proportion of Element. \ Conclusion. / Government. Early English and Scottish | Family. Life as reflected in the | Employments. Ballads | Pastimes. \ Manners. Early English and Scottish / Aspirations. Character as reflected | Principles. in the Ballads \ Tastes. Democracy in the Ballads. Nature in the Ballads. Color in the Ballads. History and Science in the Ballads. Manhood in the Ballads. Womanhood in the Ballads.