nd sweet are these
rhymes!" Grandpa bought the book, and Dot was
delighted with her present. So is mamma. She says
the stories are as good as she could make them
herself. If you want just the daintiest book of
the season, get this. Don't be put off with
something common. This beats "Mother Goose" and
all the old nursery books all to pieces. It
contains a great deal of sense, just a little
nonsense, and sparkles with fun, which all the
household will relish. This is better than forty
dolls, because the dolls usually can't talk, but
this can.--_Illustrated Christian Weekly._

This is a charming collection of nursery ballads,
full of lively nonsense and quaint conceits, such
as appeal to childish imaginations. The merry
rhymes and grotesque illustrations make each other
doubly effective. No better book since "Mother
Goose" than this for reading to children, who will
cry, "Again, again," and will never tire of its
felicitous jingles. It is dedicated to "My mother,
Julia Ward Howe."--_Boston Woman's Journal._

The rhymes and jingles in this little volume are
very genuine products, for they have every sign of
being what many nursery rhymes are not, songs
which have stood the critical test of a house full
of children of different ages and varying
temperaments and been approved. Mrs. Richards has
a natural gift of striking the whimsical without
rising above the comprehension of young people,
nor on the other hand, falling into the strained
or the commonplace.--_New York Times._

It is like getting a new and greatly enlarged
sequel to dear old "Mother Goose" to take up Mrs.
Laura E. Richards's pretty book. She knows how to
be funny without being silly; her rhymes are
lively and jingle merrily on the ear; the odd
fancies and quaint imagery are just of the sort to
entertain very young children. "In My Nursery" may
be heartily commended as an almost inexhaustible
store house of amusement for little girls and
boys.--_The Boston Beacon._

One handsome small quarto volume, bound in cloth. Price, $1.25.

_Sold everywhere.