Our Children's Songs.
Harper. 1.25
This carefully chosen collection--in which American poets are well represented--although made over thirty years ago, still holds its own as a standard. One of the divisions is devoted to hymns.
Taylor, Jane and Ann.
Little Ann, and Other Poems.
Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Warne. 1.00
It is a good thing for children to learn from these quaint verses, with their charming illustrations, the sort of reading which pleased the small folks of long ago. The Taylors seldom struck so happy a vein as in the poem called The Field Daisy, which begins:
"I'm a pretty little thing, Always coming with the Spring; In the meadows green I'm found, Peeping just above the ground, And my stalk is covered flat With a white and yellow hat."
I prefer the little girls and boys ... that come as you call them, fair or dark, in green ribbons or blue. I like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment's notice. That is what it is, you see, to have gone through life with an enchanted land ever beside you.--Kate Greenaway to Ruskin.