Olivier Bloch et Antoine Leandri proposent ici une nouvelle traduction de l'Ethique a Eudeme d'Aristote, qu'ils ont effectuee d'apres la derniere edition critique de l'ouvrage, celle de Richard Walzer et Jean Mingay (Oxford Classical Texts, 1991), non sans s'en ecarter lorsque cela leur a paru necessaire, comme ils s'en expliquent dans les notes. Il est question ici de choses aussi bizarres et desuetes que le bonheur, le courage, ou l'amitie, et par raccroc le plaisir, l'intelligence, la sante, la justice, la politique, le divin, etc. L'Introduction precise la nature de l'oeuvre, et les problemes qu'elle pose, par son titre, par ses rapports avec l'autre Ethique aristotelicienne, la plus notoire, l'Ethique a Nicomaque, du point de vue de leur ton, de leur contenu, de leur structure (les deux ouvrages comportent trois livres communs, lesquels, comme c'est la regle editoriale, ne sont pas traduits ici), de leur difference et de l'interpretation qu'il faut en donner (question, en particulier, de l'evolution pretee a la pensee d'Aristote par nombre de commentateurs). Elle se termine sur un apercu concernant l'etablissement du texte.

Newfoundland songs are diverse in origin. Vast numbers of them come from the British Isles, especially from England and Ireland; many are composed in Newfoundland, usually on English or Irish models; a lesser number of American, Canadian, and French songs are current. The ballads to be found in the Child collection are probably the oldest now sung. Then there are many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century broadside ballads, particularly English, and many nineteenth-century compositions. Such are the backgrounds from which the compilers of this volume have drawn their unusually interesting and delightful collection of ballad texts and ballad music. Expeditions to the island in 1920 and 1929 furnished the tunes; and a genuine interest in folk-literature assured the care and accuracy of the work.

written by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Maine, sponsored by the Maine Development Commission ...

This book presents old-time Michigan, its songs and their tunes, collected and edited by Emelyn E. Gardner, a folklorist of wide experience, the author of Folklore from the Schoharie Hills, with the aid of Geraldine Jencks Chickering. Michigan's early settlers, coming from the older eastern states, both north and south, with many from England, Scotland, and the British North American possessions, brought with them their songs, which they sang happily at work and play, handing them down from generation to generation, and often adapting centuries-old ballads to their new environment. Many worked for a time in the woods and picked up the mournful, or jolly, ballads that were circulated through the camps by lumberjacks drifting in from the Maine and Canadian forests. There are old folks still alive who treasure these ancient songs, and young people who have learned them from their parents and grandparents—or even from the radio. Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan collects and preserves these cherished possessions of the old frontier. With scholarly accuracy their history is recounted; the names of those who sang them are reported. The tunes of many are reproduced; there are ample indices and bibliography. Wilfred B. Shaw's ink drawings add much to the charm of the book. It is a worthy addition both to the literature of folklore and balladry, and to that of pioneer American history.