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LIST OF FOREIGN COLLECTIONS 221

ALPHABETICAL INDEX 223

C. S. C.

The dates that stand after the separate rhymes refer to the list of English collections on p. 11; the capital letters in brackets refer to the list of books on p. 221.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN NURSERY RHYMES

FIRST APPEARANCE OF RHYMES IN PRINT

Whitmore, loc. cit., p. 6.

The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a great development in toy-book literature. The leader of the movement was John Newbery, a man of considerable attainments, who sold drugs and literature, and who came from Reading to London in 1744, and settled in St. Paul's Churchyard, where his establishment became a famous centre of the book trade. Among those whom he had in his employ were Griffith Jones and Oliver Goldsmith , whose versatility and delicate humour gave a peculiar charm to the books for children which they helped to produce.

Great A, little a, Bouncing B, The cat's in the cupboard, and she can't see.

In the studies which follow, the rhymes cited have attached to them the date of the collection in which they occur.

EARLY REFERENCES

Again, the poet Henry Carey, about the year 1720, ridiculed the odes addressed to children by Ambrose Philips by likening these to a jumble of nursery rhymes. In doing so he cited the rhymes, "Namby Pamby Jack a Dandy," "London Bridge is broken down," "Liar Lickspit," "Jacky Horner," "See-saw," and others, which nowadays are still included among the ordinary stock of our rhymes.

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