Field was not first attracted to Millard's department by its treasures of rare books, sacred and profane, but by its comprehensive stock of early English Balladry and a complete line of Bohn's Library.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
It was a school of American Balladry quite at variance with the cheerful optimism of those I had heard from the Belknap-Jackson phonograph, where the persons are not dead at all but are gayly calling upon one another to come on and do a folkdance, or hear a band or crawl under-things of that sort.
"Ruggles of Red Gap"
Harry Leon Wilson
And then I became interested in British Balladry-a noble subject, for which I have always had a veneration and love, as the well-kept and profusely annotated volumes in cases 3, 6, and 9 in the front room are ready to prove to you at any time you choose to visit my quiet, pleasant home.
"The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac"
Eugene Field