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George Borrow and His Circle

Note 90 — Chapter XIV

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'PROSPECTUS It is proposed to publish, in Two Volumes Octavo Price to Subscribers £1, 1s., to Non Subscribers £1, 4s. THE SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA Translated by Dr. Bowring and Mr. Borrow. Dedicated to the King of Denmark, by permission of His Majesty. * * * * The First Volume will contain about One Hundred Specimens of the Ancient Popular Ballads of North-Western Europe, arranged under the heads of Heroic, Supernatural, Historical, and Domestic Poems. The Second Volume will represent the Modern School of Danish Poetry, from the time of Tullin, giving the most remarkable lyrical productions of Ewald, Ölenschlæger, Baggesen, Ingemann, and many others.' This four-page leaflet contains two blank pages for lists of subscribers, who apparently did not come, and the project seems to have been abandoned.

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