SPANISH BALLADS; HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC. TRANSLATED By J. G. LOCKHART, Esq. A NEW REVISED EDITION, WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. BOSTON: WHITTEMORE, NILES, AND HALL. MILWAUKIE: A. WHITTEMORE & CO. 1856. 26353,32 HARVARD MAH 24 1902 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by WHITTEMORE, NILES, AND HALL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART was a younger son of a Scotch clergyman, and was born in 1794 in the parish of Cambusnethan. When he was two years old his father removed to Glasgow, and in this city he passed the remaining years of his childhood. At an early age he entered the University of Glasgow, where he at once distinguished himself by his proficiency as a scholar, and by his rich promise of future eminence. In 1809, upon the presentation of the Senatus of this venerable institution, he was entered of Baliol College, Oxford. Here he fully sustained his reputation for excellent scholarship; and in 1813 he took the highest honors awarded to young men of his standing. Before the completion of his collegiate course he visited the Continent, and spent some time in Germany in studying the language and literature of that country. Upon his return to England he resumed his connection with Baliol College, and was graduated in 1817 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After leaving Oxford he was admitted to the Scotch bar; but he soon relinquished the practice of the law for the more congenial pursuit of polite literature. Upon the commencement of Blackwood's Magazine, he became one of its ablest and most frequent contributors; and it is known that he wrote a considerable part of the Noctes Ambrosianæ. It was from the tone |