Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Highways and Byways in the Border
AT the time of his death, my brother had proceeded but a little way in this task which he and I began together, and I must frankly own my inability to cope with it on the lines which he would doubtless have followed. It is probable, for example, that his unrivalled knowledge of the memories, legends, ballads, and nature of the Border would have led him to show various important events in a light different from that in which my less intimate acquaintance with the past has enabled me to speak of them whilst, as regards the Ballad literature of the Border, I cannot pretend to that expert knowledge which he possessed. I do not think, therefore, it is fitting that I should attempt to carry out his intention to deal more fully with those of the Ballads which are most closely connected with places treated of in this volume.
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