"Where are you going, my Pretty Maid?" "The

British Grenadiers,'
""Why are you wandering here, I

pray,"
""Dumbledum Derry," "Though Lost to Sight

to Memory Dear,"
""The Jolly Mliler," ""Sands o' Dee,"

"My Lodging is on the Cold Ground," ""Cherry Ripe,"

"If Doughty Deeds," "Down among the Dead Men,"

"Black Ey'd Susan," "How stands the Glass Around,"

"D'ye ken John Peel?" "Tom Moody,” “I'll hang my

Harp on the Willow Tree," "The Song of the Shirt,"

"The Pauper's Drive," "The Ivy Green," "The Lost

Chord," "Once Again," "The Vagabond,"
"Some

Day."

II. SOME CONTINENTAL SONGS

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Swedish Songs, Hungarian Songs, Austrian Songs,

"God Preserve the Emperor," "Malbrouck,'
""Carmag-

nole," "Madame Veto," "Charmante Gabrielle," "Vive

Henri Quatre,'
""Carnaval de Venise," "Partant pour

,""Heil Dir im Siegeskranz," "Ich bin ein

Preusse," Two Thuringian Songs, "Kanapee-Lied,"

"Ein Feste Burg," "Adelaide."

la Syrie,'

III.-CONCERNING SOME WELSH SONGS

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""The Bard's

"The Dying Bard," "Sweet Richard,"

Love,"
""Idle Days in Summer Time," Watching the

Wheat,"
‚” “Ffarwel iti Peggy ban," "March of the Men

of Harlech,'
""Those Evening Bells,"" All through the

Night,"
," "Poor Mary Ann," "Maid of Mona's Isle,"

"Why Lingers thy Gaze," "The Black Monk,"

Cambrian Plume," "Morva Rhuddlan," "David of

the White Rock," "The Sorrows of Memory," "Wini-

freda," and "St. David's Day."

""The

CHAP.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

IV. SOME SCOTTISH SONGS

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"O Nanny wilt thou gang with me?" "The Roof of

Straw," ""Bonnie Dundee," "John Anderson, my Jo,"

"Maggie Lauder,' Jessie the Flower o' Dunblane,"

"Jeannie Morrison," "Wee Willie Winkie," "The

Flowers of the Forest," "Were na my Heart licht I

would Dee," "And ye shall walk in Silk Attire,"

"Huntingtower," "Will ye no come back to me,"

"An thou wert my ain thing," "Lass o' Patie's Mill,"

"There's nae Luck about the House," "Logie o'

Buchan,"
," "Lochaber no more," "Within a Mile of

Edinburgh Town,"
""Blue Bonnets over the Border,"

"Annie Laurie," "Logan Water," "Scots wha Hae,"

"Blue Bells of Scotland," "Donald Dhu," "Roy's

Wife of Aldivalloch," "Highland Mary," "Duncan

Gray," "Lass o' Gowrie," "Comin' through the Rye,"

"Cromlet's Lilt," 'Waly, Waly," "Ye Banks and

Braes," "Onagh's Waterfall," "Farewell to Ayrshire,"

and "Take your old Cloak about Thee."

V.-IRISH SONGS-ANCIENT AND MODERN

"The

General Remarks. "The Harp that once through

Tara's Halls," "Bridget Cruise," The Last Irish Bard,

"The Hawk of Bally Shannon," "Bumper, Squire

Jones," "Maggy Laidir," "Planxty Davis," "The

Brown Thorn," "Molly Astore," "Banna's Banks,"

"Coolin'," "Summer is Coming," Jacobite Songs,

"Hy-Brasil," "Waiting for the May," "Roisin Dhu,"

The Irish Keen, "Over the Hills and Far away,'

White Cockade,'
,""The Campbells are Coming," "The

Girl I left Behind me," "I am Asleep," "The Black-

bird," "St. Patrick's Day," "St. Patrick of Ireland,”

"St. Patrick was a Gentleman," "The Shamrock."

"The Sprig of Shillelah," "The Night before Larry

was Stretched," "Cruiskin Lawn," "The Shan Van

Voght," "Grana Weal," "Twisting of the Rope,"

"The Dear Irish Boy," "Canadian Boat Song,"

Moore's Songs, Groves of Blarney," "Terence's

Farewell,"
," "Lord Mayo," "The Monks of the Screw,"

"Rory O'More," "Garryowen," "Wearing of the

Green," and Street Songs.

VI. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM,

QUEEN'

"GOD SAVE THE

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IVY GREEN, 'THE LOST CHORD, ONCE AGAIN," THE VAGABOND," SOME DAY"

LESS than ninety years ago, "Where are you going, my Pretty Maid?" was one of the most popular songs of the country and the town. It was sung everywhere-in the cottage, in the field, in the street, and in the drawing-room; and now one seldom comes across it even in