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Distributed Proofreading Team. BALLAD BOOK EDITED BY KATHARINE LEE BATES, WELLESLEY COLLEGE.     "The plaintive numbers flow   For old, unhappy, far-off things,      And battles long ago." —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH PREFACE Probably no teacher of English literature in our schools or colleges would gainsay the statement that the chief aim of such instruction is to awaken in the student a genuine love and enthusiasm for the higher forms of prose, and more especially for