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Joseph Ritson. By H. A. Hurd. (Urbana Illinois University. 75

oeute.)—'1'his very full and carefully written memoir of the rough-tongued Northumbrian lawyer who, with the Weston. and Bishop Percy and Malone, wee an eighteenth-century pioueer In the study of our older literature and of Shalt...peace, deserves a word of praise. Ritson bad more industry than taste, but his editions of the Robin Hood ballads and the metrical romances were in their day of great value and interest.