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LEGENDS AND ROMANCES

ILLUSTRATING

SHAKESPEARE

AND OTHER

EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

TWO PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS

1. On Pigmies

2. On Fairies

BY JOSEPH RITSON

LONDON

FRANK & WILLIAM KERSLAKE, BOOKSELLERS ROW

1875

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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THE subject of Fairy Mythology is one which of late years has attracted a good deal of attention both here and on the Continent. German scholarship has added much to our knowledge of this peculiarly interesting branch of folk-lore, and their labours have, in some cases, found English translators. A recent writer in the Quarterly Review was, I believe, the first to put in print, what many must have felt, that, in "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," the fairies were the most important persons of the drama.

Two scarce books are here amalgamated, and made accessible to the student. Ritson's Fairy

Tales, 1831, contains matter not in Halliwell's
Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of a Mid-

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