It was about this period that a wave of sympathy impelled several persons to turn their attention to the consideration of the songs sung by rustics and other persons who remembered the songs sung by their parents or elders. Most persons were under the impression that these country songs were merely remembrances from printed sources, and that practically little, or nothing, existed purely traditionary. A little study of the question, however, soon convinced Miss Lucy E. Broadwood, Dr William Alexander Barrett, the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, and the present writer to the contrary. Miss Broadwood, then living at Lyne in Sussex, found an unworked mine of great richness among the country people of her district. The late Dr Barrett had already gathered much, chiefly in the South of England, while a chance suggestion at a dinner-table caused Mr Baring-Gould to turn his attention to the collecting of the song current in Devonshire and Cornwall. Mr Baring-Gould absolutely revelled in this work, and his wild journeys over Dartmoor, with periods of settling down for a time at village inns, brought him in a plentiful harvest of charming songs and delightful melody. In this task he was associated with the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard and Mr F. W. Bussell. The work of these collectors saw publication in _Songs of the West_, the first part of which was issued about 1889, and the fourth and last part in 1891. Another work of Mr Baring-Gould’s, in conjunction with the late Mr Sheppard, is a _Garland of Country Songs_, 1895. This is some portion of the material left over from _Songs of the West_; both were published by Methuen. A re-issue of _Songs of the West_ with additions appeared in 1905. A small part of Miss Broadwood’s work was incorporated in _English County Songs_, which she edited in collaboration with Mr J. A. Fuller Maitland in 1893. The great popularity of this work is justified by its excellence. A further selection appeared in _English Traditional Songs and Carols_ (Boosey, 1908). Dr Wm. Alex. Barrett, in February 1891, a few months prior to his death, issued, through Novello & Co., _English Folk-Songs_, a most interesting collection of fifty-four songs, some of which, however, are to be found in print in earlier publications. In the spring of 1891 the present writer issued the result of his collecting under the title _Traditional Tunes, a collection of ballad airs chiefly obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland, by Frank Kidson_.