Excerpt from The Spanish Ballads: And the Chronicle of the Cid The Publishers, in uniting with them Southey's fine trans lation of the Chronicle of the Cid, believe that they are adding to the value and interest of these charming Ballads by presenting at the same time a perfect picture of the Spanish mind at the most striking and' interesting period of the na tional history. John Gibson Lockhart, the son of a minister of the Kirk of Scotland, was born 1794, and'died 1854. He married the eldest daughter of Sir Walter Scott. From 1826 to 185 3 he was the editor of the Quarterly Review. He was the author of several novels and tal s, Valerius, Reginald Dalton, &c., and of a very interesting Life of Sir Walter Scott but he will probably be best known to posterity as the translator of the Spanish Ballads, to which his genius has given the spirit and life of an original work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.