5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 11

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by

John Hassell. (Blackie and Son. 5s.)—" Mother Goose" is a Homer of a sort, with a whole cycle of rhymesters of the same kind, even as the old man of Chios was followed by epic, writers without end. The "Nursery Rhymes" here called after her name number more than five hundred, and include all the old favourites, and some that, to us at least, are quite knew. It is a great collection, and admirably illustrated by Mr. Hassall's humorous pencil.