 In addition to a very local sort of patriotism, the primary warrant for preserving a given text was that it could be traced to a prior tradition (especially one documentable in the British Isles, ideally in Thomas Percy’s 1765 "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" or the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1882-98) of Francis James Child.Belden published results of his students’ researches in "Modern Philology" and the "Journal of American Folklore", and the club had achieved sufficient stability as to establish itself officially on December 15, 1906.The innovations here are numerous