PART 37. ON PARODIES OF POPULAR SONGS. Page 2 to 16. Modern Songs, PART 38. Songs by Henry Carey, A. Bunn, J. H. Payne, and Robert Herrick. PART 39. Songs by R. Herrick, T. H. Baily, and Lewis Carroll. PART 40. Songs by C. and T. Dibdin, T. Campbell, and David Garrick. PART 41. _The Bilious Beadle_, The Old English Gentleman, Rule Britannia, and God Save the King. PART 42. Songs in W. S. Gilbert’s Comic Operas. PART 43. W. S. Gilbert’s Songs, _Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode_, Swinburne’s Question, and the Answer. PART 44. The Vicar of Bray, Old King Cole, Lord Lovel, and Old Simon the Cellarer. PART 45. Chevy-Chace, Lord Bateman, Songs by R. B. Sheridan, Charles Mackay, and B. W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall). PART 46. Parodies of various old Songs and Ballads. PART 47. Parodies of Scotch, Irish, and Welsh Songs. PART 48. Songs by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and various old English Songs. Tennyson’s Jubilee Ode. [Illustration] AN INTRODUCTION TO THE Parodies of Popular Songs. [Illustration: A]cting on the suggestion of numerous friends and subscribers I have determined to devote the Fourth Volume of my Collection to Parodies of _Popular Songs and Ballads_, which are probably the most amusing and witty of all Parodies. The Songs of Sheridan, Henry Carey, Dibdin, Thomas Haynes Bayly, Samuel Lover, Eliza Cook, Charles Mackay, Henry Russell, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lady Dufferin, Barry Cornwall, and W. S. Gilbert, have been frequently parodied, as well as separate songs, written by the minor poets, such as Rule Britannia; The Roast Beef of Old England; The Bay of Biscay; The British Grenadiers; The Vicar of Bray; The Fine Old English Gentleman; Home, Sweet Home; The Mistletoe Bough; The Ivy Green; In the Gloaming; My Queen; The Message; The Lost Chord; Some Day; Far, far away, etc. Parodies of many of the best songs written by the earlier poets, such as Sir John Suckling, Sir Charles Sedley, Ben Jonson, Herrick, George Wither, Edmund Waller, and Richard Lovelace, will also be included. In the previous volumes the songs of Shakespeare, Burns, Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Moore, and Alfred Tennyson have already been dealt with in connection with their other poetical works. Following this Volume of Songs, there will be another containing parodies of the poems of Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, William Cowper, Lord Macaulay, Dante G. Rossetti, Robert Browning, A. C. Swinburne, and of some of the minor English and American Poets, Nursery Rhymes, etc.