additions. As a guarantee, however, for accuracy in theſe important reſpects, I beg to aſſure the reader that, in every doubtful inſtance, I have never relied excluſively upon my own judgment, but invariably have ſought that of ſome literary friend better qualified than myſelf to ſolve the difficulty. I feel confident, therefore, that no error of the kind referred to will be detected in the following pages.
My original intention was to include in the preſent collection the moſt celebrated political ballads referring to the reigns of the laſt two Georges; but finding my preſcribed limits would not admit of anything like juſtice being done to them, I have been reluctantly compelled to abandon that part of my ſcheme. Should, however, the preſent ſeries happily meet with the approbation of the public, I ſhall furniſh with pleaſure the remaining inſtalment, in the ſhape of an additional volume.
London, October, 1860.
