KIDSON, FRANK, and ALFRED MOFFAT. Eighty Singing-Games, old, new, and adapted. Bayley & Ferguson. GILLINGTON, ALICE E. Old Hampshire Singing-Games. —— Old Isle of Wight Singing-Games. —— Old Surrey Singing-Games. Curwen. LITERATURE ECKENSTEIN, LINA. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes. 1906. ENGEL, CARL. The Study of National Music. 1866. —— The Literature of National Music. 1879. GLYN, MARGARET H. Analysis of the Evolution of Musical Form. 1909. HALLIWELL, JAMES ORCHARD. The Nursery Rhymes of England, obtained principally from Oral Tradition. 1843. (A reprint from the volume contributed to the Percy Society’s publications by Halliwell in 1841. A most valuable work, several times, with the addition of “Nursery Tales,” re-issued.) MUSICAL ASSOCIATION, PROCEEDINGS OF. For 1904-1905-1907-1908. (These years contain different papers on folk-music.) SHARP, CECIL J. English Folk-Songs: Some Conclusions. 1907. ENGLISH FOLK-DANCE BY MARY NEAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgment is given with many thanks to— Miss LUCY BROADWOOD, who directed attention to several works of reference. Miss A. G. GILCHRIST, for permission to use the music of the Moston rush-bearing Morris dance and for pointing out its connection with “To-morrow shall be my dancing day.” Miss NELLIE CHAPLIN, for allowing me to use her copy of _Playford’s Dancing Master_. Mr CLIVE CAREY, for reading proofs and other help. Mr WALTER DODGSON, for translating passages from _Mysterium und Mimus im Rigveda_ by Leopold von Schroeder. Mr BRASSINGTON, of the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Library, for help in looking up works of reference. Mr JOHN GRAHAM, for suggesting works of reference. Mr JOHN BECK, for lending _Kemp’s Morris Dance Wonder_. Sir J. G. FRAZER, whose work, _The Golden Bough_, is indispensable to the study of folk-dance. _The Daily Chronicle_, for permission to reproduce the pictures of the Bampton dancers. Messrs CURWEN & SONS, for permission to reproduce two pictures from the _Espérance Morris Books_. [Illustration: Morris Dancers at Bampton-in-the-Bush, Oxon.] INTRODUCTION