Excerpt from Sixty Patriotic Songs of All Nations A very severe seleétion should be made, how ever, and only the best specimens kept; Other wise the whole is likely to be cast away as rub bish; and I am afraid Vaughan Williams has sometimes erred on the side of lenity in pre serving and setting for orchestra and choir, tunes which only bore audiences to extinétion. Unless he is more ruthless in his criticism, he will defeat his own purpose. And in faét, Cecil Sharp gives this part Of his contention away when he says that he has published only ten per cent of the three thousand tunes he has colleéted. (english Review, July, 19 In poetry, only a very few Of the best pieces of even great poets are pre served; and is it reasonable to suppose that we can make room in our growing luggage for every utterance of the unlettered peasant? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.