THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. VOL. LXXXIV. Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur. BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY, 111 WASHINGTON STREET. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: CONTENTS 1. Robin Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads now extant relative to that celebrated English Outlaw; to which are prefixed Historical Anec- dotes of his Life. Carefully reprinted from RITSON. 2. The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with the Tale of the Lytell Geste: a Collection of all the Poems, Songs, and Ballads relating to this celebrated Yeoman; to which is prefixed his History and Character, deduced from Documents hitherto unrevised. Edited by JOHN 3. MR. HUNTER'S Critical and Historical Tracts. No. IV. The Ballad Hero, Robin Hood. II. PROFESSOR CHANNING AND HIS LECTURES Lectures read to the Seniors in Harvard College. By EDWARD T. CHANNING. With a Biographical Notice 1. The Sound Dues of Denmark, and their Relations with the Commerce of the World. By F. HESSENLAND. Translated in Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, October, 1855. 2. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Correspondence in Relation to the Imposi- tion of "Sound Dues" upon our Commerce to the Baltic. 3. Annual Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, with Accompanying 1. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedi- 2. The Last of the Artie Vorazes; being a Narrative Beaumarchala et son Temps; Études sur la Société en VIL LANDSCAPE AND ITS TREATMENT. Village and Farm Cottages. The Requirements of American Village Homes, considered and suggested, with VIIL HUDSON'S EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE 1. The Dramatic Works of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; with Notes original and selected. By SAMUEL WELLER SINGER. 2. The Works of SHAKESPEARE; the Text carefully restored according to the first Editions; with Introductions, Notes original and selected, and a Life of the Poet; by the Rev. H. N. HUDSON. 3. The Works of SHAKESPEARE; the Text regulated by the recently discovered Folio of 1632, containing early Manuscript Emendations, with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to each Play; by J. PAYNE COLLIER. IX. CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LITERATURE 1. GUILLAUME GUIZOT: Alfred le Grand. 3. M. THIERS: Consulat et Empire. Vol. XIV. X. LATE GERMAN WORKS ON ROMAN HISTORY. 1. Die Geschichte der Römer. Von FR. DOR. GER- 2. Römische Geschichte. Von DR. A. SCHWEGLER. 4. Römische Geschichte. Von THEODOR MOMMSEN. XI. LITTLE, BROWN, & Co.'s EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS. 122 146 183 203 226 240 NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. No. CLXXIV. JANUARY, 1857. ART. I.-1. Robin Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads now extant relative to that celebrated English Outlaw; to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life. Carefully reprinted from RITSON. 1840. 2. The Robin Hood Garlands and. Ballads, with the Tale of the Lytell Geste: a Collection of all the Poems, Songs, and Ballads relating to this celebrated Yeoman; to which is prefixed his History and Character, deduced from Documents hitherto unrevised. Edited by JOHN MATTHEW GUTCH, 1850. F. S. A. In 2 vols. 3. MR. HUNTER'S Critical and Historical Tracts. No. IV. The Ballad Hero, Robin Hood. 1852. ROBIN HOOD! all over England it is a name of affection, heroism, and gladness. It is so even where the ballads about him have been long forgotten, and where no recollection of his history survives. But how is this? His history quite forgotten, why should his name excite such feeling? It is because of the past; because of its having become a name of feeling. Just as love means affection, even with persons ignorant of the Saxon word of a thousand years ago, whence it is derived, so it is with the name of Robin Hood. Among the poor, at least, it has been repeated from father to son, with such deep VOL. LXXXIV. NO. 174. 1 |