unmarried in 1824, at the age of forty-one.

She began to

rhyme quite early. When only eight she asked her father for

a garden of her own in the following manner :

AH, dear papa, did you but know

The trouble of your Jane,

I'm sure you would relieve me now,
And ease me of my pain.

Although your garden is but small,
And more, indeed, you crave,
There's one small bit not used at all,
And this I wish to have.

A pretty garden I would make

That you would like to know; Then pray, papa, for pity's sake This bit of ground bestow.

Page 90.

"The Three Little Pigs"

In Aunt Judy's Song Book, from which this piece is taken, it has a musical setting by Mr. Scott-Gatty. "The Burial

of the Linnet" (p. 62), in the same work, is also arranged as

Some people prefer the following version of the same piece. The other seems to me to be better. It was surely much finer

for Jemima to hurrah with her heels than to drum them against the winder, which any one could do :—

'HERE was a little girl, who had a little curl

THERE

Right in the middle of her forehead,

And when she was good she was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

She stood on her head, on her little truckle-bed,

With nobody by for to hinder ;

She screamed and she squalled, she yelled and she bawled, And drummed her little heels against the winder.

Her mother heard the noise, and thought it was the boys. Playing in the empty attic,

She rushed upstairs, and caught her unawares,

And spanked her, most emphatic.

I have tried in vain to discover the author of these verses. According to an American writer, Miss Roosevelt, the first stanza was claimed by Longfellow; but there is no proof that it was he who finished it.

Page 101. "A Strange Wild Song

This is the Song of the Gardener in Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll, published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. “The Walrus and the Carpenter" (p. 108), it is unnecessary to state, is from the same author's Through the Looking-Glass.

Page 103. "Sage Counsel"

Mr. A. T. Quiller Couch has kindly given me leave to use these verses, which have not been published before.

“The Elephant” and “The Lion” (p. 104), “The Frog" and "The Ode to a Rhinoceros" (p. 105), are from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, the Introduction to which is printed on p. 131. The Bad Child's Book of Beasts was written by H. B., and illustrated by B. T. B., and is published by Messrs. Alden of Oxford. The verses and pictures go so perfectly together that it is almost a pity to divide them: I hope that these extracts may send readers to the book.

Another writer, Mr. Ashby Sterry, has gone farther than the author of "The Frog" as a friend of dumb creatures. Here are two stanzas from a warm-hearted appeal which he once made in Punch :

PEAK gently to the herring, and kindly to the calf,

SPE

Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles don't laugh! Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear, Ne'er hint at currant jelly if you chance to see a hare!

O, little girls, pray hide your combs when tortoises draw

nigh,

And never in the hearing of a pigeon whisper Pie !
But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea-
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be !

O, make not game of sparrows, nor faces at the ram,
And ne'er allude to mint sauce when calling on a lamb,
Don't beard the thoughtful oyster, don't dare the cod to

crimp,

Don't cheat the pike or ever try to pot the playful shrimp.
Tread lightly on the turning worm, don't bruise the butterfly,
Don't ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry ;
O, ne'er delight to make dogs fight, nor bantams disagree-
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be !

Page 112. "The Pobble Who Has No Toes"

I should like also to have printed other of Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs, published by Messrs. Warne and Co., but copyright prevented. By those who know that volume, and also The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense, the following examination paper, which was drawn up some years ago by Mr. C. L. Graves, and printed in the Spectator, should be worth attempting:

1. What do you gather from a study of Mr. Lear's works to have been the prevalent characteristics of the inhabitants of Gretna, Prague, Thermopylæ, Wick, and Hong-Kong?

2. State briefly what historical events are connected with Ischia, Chertsey, Whitehaven, Boulak, and Jellibolee.

3. Comment, with illustrations, upon Mr. Lear's use of the following words :-Runcible, propitious, dolomphious, borascible, fizzgiggious, himmeltanious, tumble-dum-down, spongetaneous.

4. Enumerate accurately all the animals who lived on the Quangle Wangle's Hat, and explain how the Quangle Wangle was enabled at once to enlighten his five travelling companions as to the true nature of the Co-operative Cauliflower.

5. What were the names of the five daughters of the Old Person of China, and what was the purpose for which the Old Man of the Dargle purchased six barrels of Gargle?

6. Collect notices of King Xerxes in Mr. Lear's works, and state your theory, if you have any, as to the character and appearance of Nupiter Piffkin.

7. Draw pictures of the Plum-pudding Flea and the Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, and state by whom waterproof tubs were first used.

Page 115. "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb"

I have borrowed this piece from Struwwelpeter because I wanted to include something of Dr. Hoffmann's in this book; but it is, of course, a little unfair to separate the verse from the pictures. The following lines are taken from an ode in memory of Dr. Hoffmann which appeared in the Spectator soon after his death in 1894:

HY pencil, too,-with what a force

THY

It shadowed Nemesis, her course!
Who that once saw, can e'er forget,
The cats which mourned for Harriet,