Mrs Balfour's book, revised and edited by Mr. N. W. Thomas, was volume iv of the County Folklore series published by the Folklore Society in 1904, and here reproduced in facsimile. Her book, together with the Denham Tracts (1891) provided a fairly complete coverage of the subject. It takes the reader back to the old-fashioned country life of the Northumberland Border, its rough gaiety, its bonfire festivals, its harvest homes and its boistrous weddings.