14 MARCH 1896, Page 25

A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Edited by S.

Baring. Gould. (Methuen and Co.)—Here we have the book of nursery songs and rhymes—not far off a hundred in all—as fine as it can be made by good paper and type, and the illustrations contributed by members of the Birmingham Art School. Mr. Baring-Gould, whose " record " as a folk-lariat was an excellent qualification for editing a volume of this kind, has supplied an introduction and notes in which the history of most of the songs is traced.