Boyd Books

This is a great book and a Must-have for any nursing student that truly wants to excel in class and on exams. It really helped me to understand some difficult concepts, such as ABG's. It explained concepts in such a way that you weren't simply memorizing facts, but lying a foundation of understanding to carry on throughout more complex classes. I'm glad that I spent the extra money to purchase this book early in my nursing school education.

This is an extremely informative book packed with valuable information. I can't say enough good things about this book! It covers more than just nursing, however.

The first section is entitled "You Too Can Get Through Nursing School." Chapters here include: Study and Test-Taking Skills, Papers, Computers, Texts, Faculty Variability, Asssertiveness, Professional Possibilities, Legal Considerations, and Risk Management. This section covers the basics of getting you through school. The study tips chapter was especially useful to me.

Other sections include "Universal Issues That You Will Encounter Wherever You Go," (which includes Culture, Stress, Pain, Rehabilitation, etc); "Concepts That Are Difficult to Understand," (which incudes ABGs, Endocrine, Drug Calculations, ECG, etc); "Content You Needs To Know," (which has just 3 chapters: Critical Thinking, Research, and Theory); "How to Get Your Point Across," (which includes Communicaiton, Documentation, and Nursing Process); and a final section entitled "How to Access Information Via the Internet and Beyond."

I highly recommend this book to you. It is a wonderful resource as it explains hard concepts AND teaches you study skills, how to get along with others, and so much more!

this is book is not very good. It tells you vaguely some nursing concepts, but not enough to help explain 'difficult concepts' I wish i hadn't wasted my money on this book.

I love this book!!! Very helpful for pre-nursing students and nursing students. It reads as if someone is talking to you about the subjects.

This book is truly excellent. It gives lots of information & tips on how to handle nursing school. I definitely recomend this book to anyone who is beginning nursing school. It contains conversions, time management skills.. and much more!!

I have a daughter, now 31, who was adopted from Korea when she was nine years old. Not easy to find a book that would be suitable for her experience, I thought I would look at this book. I was frankly disappointed that no mention was given to the older child. But, when she read it, she was moved by the pictures and was pleased to take it home. She related to the pictures of the babies, not unlike the ones with whom she traveled to the U.S., in rows of airplane seats. She was impressed with the foster mothers in Korea, though she was in an orphanage for one year after her father's death and before her adoption. In addition to this lovely and resilient daughter, I now have a delightful granddaughter (definitely her mother's daughter) who helps me to see how my daughter must have been as a baby/toddler.)

As an adoptive parent of a Korean born child, I know firsthand that she had a life in Korea before ever becoming part of our family. Here is a way to fill in the missing pieces for her. Sooner or later your child will begin to ask questions. This book handles delicate issues in a gentle yet informative way. It's become our gift of choice to people we know who are new adoptive parents.

My daughter was adopted from Korea through the very same organization shown in this book. The book provided detailed information and photographs giving us insight into the early moments of her life before she came home to us. I have purchased several copies for family members and friends so they too can understand our daughter's journey into our lives. It is obvious this book was created out of love and compassion for the children of Korea. Very Heartwarming!

I am very disappointed and actually returning this book. I bought it as a gift for my 30 yr old friend. Well, this book is good for children, not adults. And by reading some of the other reviews I thought that the book was supposed to be great for adults and children, they were very misinforming! But if it were for a 7 year old, it would be perfect!

I cried as I turned the first page of this book and continued throughout with tears of heartfelt joy. My daughter-in-law was adopted from Korea 28 years ago and now her and my son are adopting a baby boy from Korea. As I read through this informative book, it brought so much insight, as it takes you step by step from the baby's birth, to the baby home, to the foster parents, medical attention, and plane ride to America, then into the arms of the adoptive parents. It brought peace of mind, and so much joy. The story explains how the birth mother wanted a good and happy life for her child but knew she couldn't give it and not that she didn't love him. This was the best and most unique gift and both my son and daughter-in-law were thrilled and cried while reading it. I just can't say enough about this book. The best book for anyone who has been adopted from Korea or is adopting. My daught-in-law learned so much about where she came from also. We all know now what is going on in our little boy's life while we are waiting for his arrival. Great gift for the grandparents too. I read it three times before giving it to my kids.

I'm a grandma who checked this out at the library. It was a surprising hit around here from crochety old grandpooh to the grandkid we can be heard at the oddest of times saying "Rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat, barump barump barump"

We bought this book for my 2 year old niece for Christmas. Being a new aunt and uncle we bought a couple of 'aunt' and 'uncle' themed books and I have to say there were not the hit we thought they would be. Unfortunately, this book gets hidden in the bookcase and I have yet to hear anything about it. On the other hand, we gave my niece some great touch and feel books (also from the amazon marketplace) that she absolutely adores. My suggestion, skip this one and go for something more enticing and interactive.

This was a great gift from all of the aunts to our new twin nieces. it is a very sweet book.

In Maurie Manning's charming picturebook story The Aunts Go Marching,, a young girl marches through falling rain beating a drum, which draws a battalion of aunts into the street behind her. An unusual counting song which leads to a parade and some zany rainy day results ensues.

A small pun - a humorous play on the words "ant" and "aunt" - becomes a fun, counting, sing-along story when applied to the familiar "The Ants Go Marching" song. The book begins with an adorable little girl dressed in a bright yellow slicker and matching hat with a matching drum. Poised at the top of a stoop with her an elderly aunt and her puppy, the cheerful girl begins to play her drum as it starts raining. The three "go marching one by one" down the neighborhood. Other "aunts" continue to join in as the group switches to "marching two by two," then "three by three" and so on until they reach the end with "ten by ten." By then, they have become an army of merry "aunts" with umbrellas in pouring rain. Only slight changes are made in the familiar and repetitive verse of the original song so the book is ideal for preschoolers. Combined with Manning's engaging illustrations, this is an irresistible picture book. The only glitch is a minor one, easily overlooked: The little girl performs all of the activities attributed in the text to an "aunt." Highly recommended for ages 3 to 8.

I found that this book address issues dealing with inter racial dating and under age relationship very well. It was written very well.

While on vacation in Cancun, Derek, a gay black man with HIV, befriends two teenaged straight white boys. The story centers on the building of the friendship between them, with Derek's coming out to them as gay and as HIV+ and with Derek's intense attraction to one of the two boys. Boyd eloquently portrays the struggles of Derek coming to terms with his unrequited desire for the oldest boy, and the sometimes wavering effects of time and distance on a friendship. He does succumb to gooey sentimentality towards the end, but it doesn't take away from the grace of the novel.

This is a beautiful, meaningful story, so sensitively handled and honestly revealed, that portrays the life-giving strength of love that can cross diverse gaps: black and white, old and young, straight and gay, physically "pure" and HIV "adulterated".

Recently testing positive for HIV, 26-year-old artist Derek Mayfield, a gay black man, takes a vacation in Cancun to give himself time to reassess his commitment to his life and its purpose. While there, he encounters and falls in love with Rob Velarde, a beautiful 16-year-old white "god" who was also vacationing there with his younger brother, Skeeter, and his divorced mother, Roberta. Rob was the embodiment of all that Derek had spent a lifetime desiring and wanting to create undying love with--yet here ten years his junior and still an under-age child under the control of his parents. Instead of just keeping his distance and obsessively observing this "Tadzio" from afar, Derek steps right into Rob's life and the life of his family, creating a multi-layered relationship of friendship and love that would mutually affect and benefit all of them for the rest of their lives.

Author Randy Boyd with his perfect writing does not flinch in his honesty about the definite sexual appeal of a youth like Rob, and the turmoil of desire versus responsibility that a man like Derek can undergo. But in genuinely taking Rob into his heart, Derek is also nurturing in this incubator his own precious, surviving Self, and in his presentation of the reality and example of his generous and decent character to the two relentlessly curious and open boys, and, ultimately, to their mother, he is also, himself, becoming aware of his own infinite value. It is not only Derek's ability to enjoy and absorb the youthful vibrancy of Rob and Skeeter, but also in his willingness to give of himself to their benefit that he has achieved what he wanted to find in Cancun.

The story also deals with the extreme hunger of loneliness and separation that exists in even the most golden of lives, and how what is the true perversion that comes from the combination of youth with adult is not the danger that an adult's sexual attraction could distort the psyche of the youth, but that the genuine love that youthful innocence craves is blocked by other adults who have already been distorted by their fears. This novel sets to right again the reaching and arcing path of love that links what otherwise would be separated by a turbulent and ferocious ocean.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with an open heart and I am eager to read it again so that once more I can fully experience the beauty, compassion, and great fun that was Cancun with Derek, Rob, and Skeeter.

THIS IS *** NOT *** A CHEAP THRILL SEX BOOK!

With an overtone of "The Hardy Boys In The 21st Century"
this book delivers an enthralling story with character
development focusing on teen and adult sexuality. I really
read in fear of coming to the final pages: losing the good friends,
conversations, and stories it provided.

Life lessons and advice are abundant here, some reminding me
of sources of wisdom like Ann Rand, Alcoholics Anomyous, The Tao,
and many many more, refined by real experience centered on,
but not limited to, sex.

It's smooth, easy, laid back, reflective reading; and I'm going to look into
more of this author's works!

WARNING: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A CHEAP ORGASMIC
THRILL . . . THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU.

FOR THOSE WITH A MIND . . . ENJOY!

I found that this book address issues dealing with inter racial dating and under age relationship very well. It was written very well.

The book is nicely illustrated and the book quality is good. However, it is too advanced for children. It is over-rated I suspect due to the voices of the celebrities that are on the CD. Many pages are actually quite depressing and negative. I like more upbeat books even if there is a moral to be taught.

The format of this book and the others like them give a young reader a very enjoyable experience. The adult side helps to embellish the story but the children's side lets a new reader be part of the story not just a listener. Our first grader takes great pride in his part of the book and seems to have better comprehension. These are a great find.

I read this book to my little sister, she is 9 and thought it was the funnist book she had ever heared of. She really liked the part were the emporer.... well I won't give the ending away. But, I hope you enjoy it.

I had been given 2 of these books from a friend and I decided to see if there were anymore. My son loves this book. He's now working on reading the adult side. It's a great idea to have a page each, 1 for the adult and 1 for the child. We have several of these books now and I see my son sitting down and reading them on his own.

Generally, I do not care for audio books; many of the readers speak in a dull voice that rapidly drives me either away from the story or to sleep. However, there are a few exceptions; this is one.

Understand, that this is not the normal audio book; this edtion has a large cast of actors who collaborated to produce this item as a fund raiser for Starbright.

The result is an ensemble piece that is witty and charming. Part of the fun for me, was guessing who was reading before looking at the cast list included in the box.

Other folks feel that this isn't for children; I don't know as I don't have children, but I found that my "inner child" was highly entertained for 40 minutes with this tape.

If you are a fan of one or more of the actors in this edition or like puns (there are many here!), then you will probably like the Starbright edtion of the Emporer's New Clothes.

This book is the textbook my daughter needed for her college class. I can only say it came in perfect condition and my daughter hasn't said anything negative about it. I assume it's a good book for the subject of psychology.

THis is one of the best books od psychology that i have ever read, is easy to understand, and very complet, provides examples and has a sheet of question and a review, best best book of psychology for College level

This book is very easy to navigate through and is being used in my class in addition to the powerpoint presentations we view during class.
I am very happy with my purchase.

This purchase was very good. i got it in great time and on time. i would definately buy from this seller again.

I had to use this book for my intro to psychology class. I planned on just skimming it to find the answeres, but I ended up reading it all. It is a great book with great stories. It is easy of follow and the definition of new words are listed on the side of the page, not in the back of the book like most textbooks. Great Book!

While several of the suggestions in the book are things that you have already done, or would think of yourself, there are also some creative ideas too- Sometimes you just fall into the routine of everyday life and need to do something to rekindle the romance. The nice suggestions are sweet, and the naughty suggestions are fun without being kinky. Good for coming up with ideas for date night when we're just out of ideas.

Thought this would be a great way to re-kindle a 22 year marriage..however, miniature golf and ice cream afterwards wasn't the suggestion I had hope to get. The naughty suggestions were lame at best.

This book was hilarious. And it made me feel dirty in all the right ways. By the end, I found myself exclaiming, "My word, I'm feeling both naughty AND nice. I wonder if that's what the authors intended?" One look at the title was enough to tell me I was right.

If nothing else, Boyd Geary is one sexy [person]. If that's not reason enough to buy this book, I don't know what is.

What an excellent collection of ideas to get you and your lover started once the dinner-and-a-movie routine has run it's course. I actually read all the right-hand pages first (that's the naughty stuff) but found myself drawn to the nice side, too. There's great inspiration here for rekindling romance, or sparking it in the first place if you have a hard time finding your partners soft spot. We don't take the book literally like an instruction manual but instead springboard off into our own fantasies. It's a welcome way to start a conversation with your lover over a "touchy" subject. Enjoy!

I picked this book up because I was looking for something "fun" for Valentine's Day. This is a really creative book to get "good" and "bad" ideas for a romantic evening- with alot of humor mixed in for good measure. Two thumbs up!

Maybe the book gets a little bogged down at the end, but this story would not let me go. I read it all in a day and couldn't get it out of my head. I even fell in love with a character (Artemis). It's hilarious and it has scenes you'll want to read again and again

I liked the idea and energy of this book. It never bored me, but I do feel the author fell prey to an easy, pat, aging-A.A. ending to write her way out of this book. I also think she romantically overstated the revolutionary power of sex and didn't explore in depth enough the many, many other reasons why women make the choices they do. That said, the characters were lively and intriguing, if one dimensional in motivation at times.

Blanch McCrary Boyd's new outing seemed like a fun little vacation lark when I ordered it from Amazon.com. Let's see, radical lesbians in a commune in the wild and wacky 70s--what a potential ride. As it turned out, I got far more than I'd bargained for. Boyd's novel is at once funny, sad, disturbing, and uplifting. What's more, she's stuffed it with a cast of fully-realized characters with the same uneven mix of virtues and foibles of folks you probably know (radical lesbians or not). At the end, I truly wished that I could have as much wisdom, compassion, acceptance and understanding for myself as Boyd does for her characters. Can't wait to read it again

"Terminal Velocity" is a brilliant mix...hysterical lines, precocious characters, soul wrenching emotions. I've read it at least 5 times, and I have never had a book affect me so deeply. The truth in the plot and experiences becomes evident through eloquent writing, unbelievable experiences, and almost tangible characters. And beyond all that, the book has the capability to make one feel as if the author is actually intending to bring out your deepest desires and strongest fears! Unforgettable book, to say the least.

As far as I can see, this is the by far best novella about feminism/lesbianism/roughing it that I have ever had the pleasure to read. I stumbled across it in a bookstore (no, really, I tripped and fell on it) and started reading that very moment. I had the paperback, which, in my opinion, had a better cover than that of the hadcover. It took me all of an hour to finish Terminal Velocity. Ms. Boyd was really on to something when she wrote this novella. My favorite scene was the Tree of Life on the hotel floor. If I may be so proud, I'd say to any and all (lest the faint-of-heart swoon dead away) Read This Book.

This is the sad, sad, story of Eleanor, a young woman whose life has been ruined by a terrible fire. Her face and chest are very badly scarred, and the firse that ruined her looks also claimed the life of her father. Throughout the novel she is sustained by only one thing: her correspondance with Robert, an American soldier fighting in the second World War. The descriptions of the attitude others have towards her are almost unbearable in their poignance and sadness. I found myself moved to tears several times throughout the book.

The reason that this book was demoted from five stars is because there isn't much action. Some areas are repetitive, but the sheer tradgedy of the heroine makes it a page-turner. Nevertheless, this lack of action was very clear through the beginning, which was a little slow. An overall excellent book, but just remember to keep a box of tissues handy while you read.

Twomey effortlessly brings the reader into Eleanor's world with her beautiful writing. Eleanor is easy to identify with. Anyone who's ever felt different will feel Eleanor's pain and cheer for her she struggles with herself and the world around her. The storyline is engaging as Eleanor's secret and real lives intersect. This is a powerful story about facing adversity and human nature.

Twomey effortlessly brings the reader into Eleanor's world with her beautiful writing. Eleanor is easy to identify with. Anyone who's ever felt different will feel Eleanor's pain and cheer for her she struggles with herself and the world around her. The storyline is engaging as Eleanor�s secret and real lives intersect. This is a powerful story about facing adversity and human nature.

Eleanor Driscoll has to go through all of her high school years with scars on her face from a fire that she and her father got caught in. Now she has to ignore people laughing at her and gossiping about her as she walks by. She has a penpal who doesn't know about her face, but that's the only friend she has. Then she meets Clarisse, who see farther than her scars.

I usually have trouble reading for a long time so I can finish the book, but with this book I was able to concentrate and really focus on what I was reading. Every chapter was a cliffhanger. The way Eleanor took all the gossip and laughing surprised me. She just kept going and tried to make friends. At the beginning it didn't make sense, but I just comfortably fell into the book when I found out how Eleanor reacted, and when I felt all the sensitivity and pressure in this girl's life. I think Cathleen Twomey wrote this with all her heart, and tried to relate the joy and pain of the life of a teenaged girl.

Twomey effortlessly brings the reader into Eleanor's world with her beautiful writing. Eleanor is easy to identify with. Anyone who's ever felt different will feel Eleanor's pain and cheer for her she struggles with herself and the world around her. The storyline is engaging as Eleanor�s secret and real lives intersect. This is a powerful story about facing adversity and human nature.

Absolutely deplorable people doing rather hardhearted things. Loved it! Couldn't stop reading it once I had scanned the first couple of lines. What's not to love about a cast of 18th century rogues and lowlifes? I just wish I could see this actually performed-- seems like it'd be extremely entertaining to watch.

The beggar's opera,: And companion pieces (Crofts classics) is good as it includes extra writings from Mr. John Gay, friend of Jonathan Swift (the Irish cleric of The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical Edition) and A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) and Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)) and collaborator with Alexander Pope in the gathering and editting of Shakespeare's plays. Specifically the Croft edition contains excerpts from Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London.

We would wish very much to find a complete edition of the writings and plays of Mr. Gay, yet we are fortunate to find at least one here in this Regents Restoration Drama edition, the one for which he is most famous, as it was gratefully adapted by Mr. Bertolt Brecht some eighty years ago for the well known The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics), whose Kurt Weill music we groundlings know best in the one song Mack the Knife.

Here in the Regents edition we find the original play, with the longest section of this book the collection of sheet music with songs and lyrics, the melodies of which come from traditional airs of that time, as this was the earliest ballad opera. A brilliant introduction by Edgar V. Roberts presents fully the history, context, arguement and effects of this opera, which basically satirizes the felonoius larceny of the London aristocracy in the guise of cheap hoodlums and thieves, as if Dick Cheney's Halliburton ran and protected no more than your city, for a fee.

Read this book. Know your history. See what is happening today under our globalization and free trade agreements. Read this book.

A very helpful chronology completes this volume, setting Gay into the context of his day. This may be all we can hope for, and I certainly would like to read the rest of Trivia, and of Polly, and of The What D'ye Call It.

Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it. - John Gay's epitaph As we sit here, nearly 300 years removed from the debut of The Beggar's Opera, it's hard to recapture the effect that it had on the England of 1728. So look at it this way, John Gay was the Sex Pistols of his day and The Beggar's Opera hit London like Never Mind the Bollocks....

Since Italian opera had first come to London in 1705, it had dominated the British stage. Replete with ornate sets, elaborate costumes, unintelligible plots and imported sopranos and castrati, it was less art than event. Audiences attended to share in the spectacle, as chariots swooped through the air & romantic tales unfolded on stage. Into this artificial world, Gay unleashed an opera about the scum of London society, set in taverns and thieves' dens. He tells the story of Peachum, a fence with a lucrative sideline in informing on fellow criminals. His daughter Polly has secretly married MacHeath, a highwayman. Now Peachum and his "wife" fear that MacHeath will inform on them & inherit their loot when they are hanged. After berating Polly for marrying, & not having sense enough to live out of wedlock, they decide to turn MacHeath in, before he can turn them in. As Peachum prepares his daughter for this turn of events he tells her: "The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. Where is the woman who would scruple to be a wife, if she had it in her power to be a widow whenever she pleased?" However, to the Peachum's disgust, Polly is actually in love with MacHeath and so, to her great surprise, are several other women, including Lucy Lockit who helps him to escape from prison. So, the stage is set for a madcap farce. Mix in a satiric look at the corrupt administration of justice, some political jabs at the political master of the day, Sir Robert Walpole and songs like the following:

A fox may steal your hens, sir A whore your health and pence, sir, Your daughter rob your chest, sir Your wife may steal your rest, sir, A thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, With rest, pence, chest and chicken; It ever was decreed, sir, If lawyer's hand is fee'd, sir, He steals your whole estate.

and you've got Gay's recipe for what quickly became the most popular play of the 18th Century, fathering myriad imitations including Brecht's Threepenny Opera. A delicious romp. GRADE: A

The Beggar's Opera by John Gay is an artful yet honest representation of London in the early 1700s. As the Editor's introduction notes, it is a political satire that brings to life the actions of such notorious figures as Jonathan Wild and Robert Walpole. In the Beggar's introduction the reader is made aware of the author's intent to mock the recent craze of the Italian Opera, which is considered by Gay to be thouroughly "unnatural." Immediately after that we are exposed to the corruption of a city offical, Peachum (whose name means "to inform against a fellow criminal"), as he is choosing which criminals should live, as they are still profitable, and who should not, as they have turned honest. Peachum's character of both an arch-criminal and law man is interesting enough in his daily dealings; add to that his daughter's recent marriage to a highwayman (who the father then plots to send to the gallows). Not to mention what happens when the highwayman runs into an old aquaintance of his, who visibly shows his earlier affection, and you have what makes to be a highly entertaining, emotional, and educational story of 18th century London. The dialogue is well written, and the only problem a modern reader might have is the operatic aspect. I suspect that the mockery of the opera is not felt as much when read but rather when performed. Note to reader: it makes it much easier to understand if you read the introduction. There you will find instances of "real" London that the playwrite is satirizing. For all lovers of period English pieces who enjoy a cynical wit.

From its first performance, January 29, 1728, The Beggar's Opera was an absolute success. In that period a box office hit might be continued for four or five nights. Remarkably, The Beggar's Opera ran sixty-two nights in London, and was produced nearly every year thereafter to 1886. Its popularity quickly spread to Wales and Scotland, France and Germany, and even to the New England colonies (and became a favorite of George Washington).

A London revival in 1920 ran 1,463 performances. A Beggar's Opera Club had membership limited to those that had seen at least 40 performances. Bertholt Brecht's twentieth century version, Three Penny Opera, was immensely successful too. A jazzy rendition of one of Brecht's songs, Mack the Knife, became Number One on the Hit Parade in the early 1960s.

John Gay's innovative musical appealed to the masses with its rollicking, rowdy, English lyrics overlain on old, sentimental melodies. Formal, highly structured, Italian opera was shoved aside by this novel musical form.

The cast was equally original, being comprised of cutthroats, pickpockets, thieves, streetwalkers, highwaymen, and a corrupt jailer. Polly Peachum, the sweet, trusting daughter of the roguish Peachum, was the only honest character in the play. Miss Lavina Fenton, perhaps the best theatrical singer of her day, became immensely popular for her role as Polly and at end of the run - the sixty-two performances - she married the Duke of Bolton and retired from acting.

The audience was quick to associate Newgate Prison with Whitehall; the deceitful, avaricious Peachum (Polly's father) with Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister; Macheath's band of rogues (Jemmy Twitcher, Crook-Fingered Jack, Nimming Ned, etc.) with aristocratic courtiers, and Macheath's women of the streets (Mrs. Coaxer, Dolly Trull, Mrs. Vixen, Molly Brazen, etc.) with ladies of high society.

This short three-act play has some forty-five scenes, almost all with musical interludes. Gay holds this myriad of scenes together through nearly continuous action, more akin to a modern film than to the conventional eighteenth century play.

The Penguin Classics edition (titled The Beggar's Opera, as might be expected), edited by Brian Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell, is quite good and not difficult to find.

Another good choice (and my favorite) is The Beggar's Opera published by Barron's Educational Series, edited by Benjamin Griffith, and illustrated by Keogh with full page ink-line drawings of the key characters. The lengthy, three part introduction - the playwright, the play, and the staging - is quite helpful. The initial musical notes are presented along with the lyrics.

The Beggar's Opera, Regents Restoration Drama Series, Nebraska University Press, 1969 may be more suitable for English majors as it offers a scholarly introduction by Edgar V. Roberts. An extensive appendix, some 140 pages, is a compilation of the music of The Beggar's Opera with keyboard accompaniments, edited by Edward Smith.

The Beggar's Opera and Companion Pieces, Crofts Classics, 1966, edited by C. F. Burgess is particularly valuable - and somewhat unique - for including Gay's enjoyable poem Trivia (subtitled The Art of Walking the Streets of London), other poems (Newgate's Garland, 'Twas When the Seas Were Roaring, Sweet William's Farewell, Molly Mog, An Epistle to a Lady, and The Hare and Many Friends), and extracts from various letters. A possible drawback may be the absence of musical scores in the text, although the lyrics are embedded within the play itself.