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PREFACE.
The great success which has followed the publication of "The Songs of England" has induced me to make another search among the stores of old popular ballads, with the view of producing a second and companion volume to the book that is so universally popular. The result has more than answered my expectations. I could hardly believe so many good songs were still available, and I have therefore been able to collect a second selection hardly less interesting and valuable than the first. The two volumes together form a not unworthy monument to the composers of our Standard Songs and Ballads.
J. L. HATTON.
