-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x6.75
inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.
The Frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile of the original
Manuscript, in Borrow's handwriting, of _The Bard and the Dreams_.
_Contents_.
PAGE
QUEEN BERNGERD. [_Long ere the Sun the heaven arrayed_] 7
DAME MARTHA'S FOUNTAIN. [_Dame Martha dwelt at 13
Karisegaard_]
Previously printed (with some small differences of text)
in _The Foreign Quarterly Review_, June 1830, p. 83.
THE BARD AND THE DREAMS. [_O'er the sweet smelling meads 16
with his lyre in his hand_]
KING OLUF THE SAINT. [_King Oluf and his brother bold_] 23
Previously printed (with some slight differences of text)
in _The Foreign Quarterly Review_, _June_ 1830, pp.
59-61.
TO SCRIBBLERS. [_Would it not be more dignified_] 30
This delightful Squib, here first printed, was written by
Borrow upon the refusal by Lockhart to insert in _The
Quarterly Review_ Borrow's Essay suggested by Ford's
_Handbook for Travellers in Spain_, 1845, in the
unmutilated and unamended form in which the author had
written it.--[See _ante_, No. 10.]
TO A CONCEITED WOMAN. [_Be still_, _be still_, _and 31
speak not back again_]
_Note_.--Each poem, to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.
There is a copy of _Queen Berngerd_, _The Bard and the Dreams_, _and
Other Ballads_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is
C. 44. d. 38.
[Picture: Manuscript of The Bard and the Dreams]
[Picture: Title page of Finnish Arts]
(48) [FINNISH ARTS: 1913]
Finnish Arts / Or / Sir Thor and Damsel Thure / A Ballad / By / George
Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Frontispiece (with blank recto), pp. 3-4;
Title-page, as above (with notice regarding the American copyright upon
the centre of the reverse) pp. 5-6; and Text of the _Ballads_ pp. 7-27.
There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of
the particular _Ballad_ occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the
following imprint: "_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J.
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