FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. BY T. CROFTON CROCKER. A New Edition. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, AFTER DESIGNS OF THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS. “Come l’araba Fenice Che ci sia, ognun lo dice; Dove sia, nessun lo sa.”—METASTASIO. Philadelphia: LEA AND BLANCHARD. 1844. PREFACE. The erudite Lessing styles a preface “the history of a book.” Now, though there can be no necessity for a preface in that sense of the word to the reprint of a work of mere whim, which has been nearly ten years before the public, yet a few words are requisite to prevent the present condensed and revised edition from being considered an abridgment. However compact may be the mode of printing adopted, the…
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