As the clock strikes midnight and the world ushers in 2025, revelers around the globe will sing "Auld Lang Syne," a song about "old acquaintance be forgot" and, well, other lyrics people may not ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

Though there's nary a kilt in sight, we have two Scottish companies in town: The National Theatre of Scotland at Santa Monica's Broad Stage and Glasgow's Visible Fictions at The Wallis in Beverly ...

In the auld Scottish ballad “Tam Lin,” the title character is a knight in a terrible spot. He’s been captured by the fairies and expects to be sacrificed this very Halloween, when their queen pays her ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...