. The nursery rhymes of England . • • • i LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE AND 1886. M CO THE NEW Y0; KLIBRARY 890412A ASTOP, LENOX ANDT1LDEN FOUNDATIONS1987 L 0- .. PREFACE FIFTH EDITION. |HE great encouragement which hasjr been given by the public to the previouseditions of this little work, satisfactorilyproves that, notwithstanding the extensionof serious education to all but the veryearliest periods of life, there still existsan undying love for the popular remnants ofthe ancient Scandinavian nursery infants and children of the nineteenthcentury have not, then, deserted
. The nursery rhymes of England . • • • i LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE AND 1886. M CO THE NEW Y0; KLIBRARY 890412A ASTOP, LENOX ANDT1LDEN FOUNDATIONS1987 L 0- .. PREFACE FIFTH EDITION. |HE great encouragement which hasjr been given by the public to the previouseditions of this little work, satisfactorilyproves that, notwithstanding the extensionof serious education to all but the veryearliest periods of life, there still existsan undying love for the popular remnants ofthe ancient Scandinavian nursery infants and children of the nineteenthcentury have not, then, deserted the rhymeschanted so many ages since by the mothers ofthe North. This is a great nursery facta proof that there is contained in some of IV PREFACE. these traditional nonsense-rhymes a meaningand a romance, possibly intelligible only tovery young minds, that exercise an influenceon the fancy of children. It is obvious theremust exist something of this kind; for nomodern compositions are found to supplyaltogether the place of the ancient nursery rhyme is the novel and lightreading of the infant scholar. It occupies,with respect to the A B C, the positi
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