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Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr.

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Ballads, Folk-Songs, Spirituals

The Ballad of Tradition. By Gordon Hall Gerould. New York: Oxford University Press. $3.25. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp. Edited by Maud Karpeles. New York: Oxford University Press. 2 vols. $10.00. Wh [...]

Treasures of Old Song

Melody and the Lyric from Chancer to the Cavaliers, By John Murray Gibbon. With Two Hundred Musical Illustrations. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.00. In "Melody and the Lyric" p [...]

The Quest of the Ballad

Folk-Songs of the South. Collected under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society and Edited by John Harrington Cox, Ph.D., Litt.D., Professor in West Virginia University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. $5.00.For well over a dozen ye [...]

Native American Folk-Songs

The Negro and His Songs. By Howard W. Odom, Ph.D., and Guy B. Johnson, A.M. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. $3.00.Dawn Boy. Blackfoot and Navajo Songs. By Eda Lou Walton. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50.The Traditiona [...]