3 JUNE 1843, Page 20

The Childs Own Singing-Book. Edited and selected by MARIA and

W. H. CALLCOTT.

The same laudable motive which led Mrs. BARBAULD to write her "Prose Hymns for Children" has induced two members of the family of Cm.i.corr to give an impulse to juvenile musical tastes. These cannot be directed aright too early ; and the little volume before us is calculated as well as designed so to guide them. "To children fond of music, it has been found a source of much pleasure to be able to sing these little songs to their own accompaniment," say the editors : and whoever has watched the effect of simple harmony on children, when produced by their own voices, will welcome this and every well-directed effort to extend the influence of so innocent and delightful a recreation. .