{"product_id":"2940013468917","title":"A HISTORY OF NURSERY RHYMES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION                                                       xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                PART I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAP.\u003cbr\u003e    I. Prehistoric man--His language one of signs and sounds--The\u003cbr\u003e         story of Psammetichus and the Two Babies--Idiom of\u003cbr\u003e         language a survival of primitive peoples                      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. Modern types of early man--Sign-language of people living on\u003cbr\u003e         the globe to-day--The custom of the UVINZA grandees--The\u003cbr\u003e         \"good-morning\" of the Walunga tribe--Signs of\u003cbr\u003e         hospitality in the sign vocabulary of the North American\u003cbr\u003e         Indian--The \"attingere extremis digitis\" of the\u003cbr\u003e         Romans--Clap-hands one of the first lessons of the\u003cbr\u003e         Nursery--The modern survival of hand-clapping--\"Is it\u003cbr\u003e         rude to shake hands, Nurse?\"--A hypercritical\u003cbr\u003e         mother--Plato's rebuke--Agesilaus and his\u003cbr\u003e         children--Nursery classics and critical babies--\"Lalla,\u003cbr\u003e         lalla, lalla\" of the Roman child--The well-known baby\u003cbr\u003e         dance of \"Crow and caper, caper and crow\"                     8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III. Writers on comparative religions show that entire religious\u003cbr\u003e         observances come down to modern peoples from heathen\u003cbr\u003e         sources--The Bohemian Peasant and his Apple Tree--A myth\u003cbr\u003e         of long descent found in the rhyme of \"A Woman, a\u003cbr\u003e         Spaniel, and Walnut Tree\"; our modern \"Pippin, pippin,\u003cbr\u003e         fly away,\" indicates the same sentiment--The fairy tale\u003cbr\u003e         of Ashputtel and the Golden Slipper, the legend from\u003cbr\u003e         which came our story of Cinderella--Tylor on Children's\u003cbr\u003e         Sports--The mystery of Northern Europe at Christ's\u003cbr\u003e         coming--The Baby's Rattle--Ancestral worship follows sun\u003cbr\u003e         and moon worship, and gives us the tales of fairies,\u003cbr\u003e         goblins, and elves--Boyd Dawkins' story of the Isle of\u003cbr\u003e         Man farmer--A Scandinavian Manxman--Modernised lullaby\u003cbr\u003e         of a Polish mother--\"Shine, Stars\"--\"Rain, rain, go\u003cbr\u003e         away\"--Wind making--LULLABIES--Bulgarian, German,\u003cbr\u003e         \"Sleep, Baby, Sleep\"--The lullaby of the Black\u003cbr\u003e         Guitar--\"Baby, go to Sleep\"--English version, \"Hush\u003cbr\u003e         thee, my Babby\"--Danish lullaby of \"Sweetly sleep, my\u003cbr\u003e         little Child\"--\"Bye, baby bunting\"                           17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV. Elf-land--Old-time superstitions--A custom of providing a\u003cbr\u003e         feast for the dead known in Yorkshire, North-west\u003cbr\u003e         Ireland, and in Armenia--The Erl King of Goethe--Ballet\u003cbr\u003e         of the Leaf-dressed Girl--The Spirit of the Waters--An\u003cbr\u003e         Irish legend of Fior Usga--Scotch superstition--Jenny\u003cbr\u003e         Greenteeth of Lancashire--The Merrow of the West of\u003cbr\u003e         Ireland--Soul Cages--The German rhyme of \"O Man of the\u003cbr\u003e         Sea, come list unto Me\"--Mysticism among uncivilised\u003cbr\u003e         races--The Corn Spirit--The Rye-wolf--\"The Cow's in the\u003cbr\u003e         Corn\"--\"Ring a ring a rosies\"--\"Cuckoo Cherry Tree\"--Our\u003cbr\u003e         earliest song, \"Summer is a-coming in\"--\"Hot Cockles\" at\u003cbr\u003e         Yorkshire funerals--\"Over the Cuckoo Hill, I\u003cbr\u003e         oh!\"--Indian Lore                                            34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                PART II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. GAMES--Whipping-tops, Marbles, etc.--\"I am good at Scourging\u003cbr\u003e         of my Toppe,\" date 15--(?)--Dice and\u003cbr\u003e         Pitch-and-Toss--\"Dab a Prin in my Lottery Book\"--\"A'\u003cbr\u003e         the Birds of the Air\"--Hop Scotch--\"Zickety, dickety,\u003cbr\u003e         dock\"--\"All good Children go to Heaven\"--\"Mary at the\u003cbr\u003e         Cottage Door.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         MARRIAGE GAMES--\"If ever I Marry I'll Marry a Maid,\"\u003cbr\u003e         1557 A.D.--London Street Games--A Wedding--\"Choose one,\u003cbr\u003e         choose two, choose the nearest one to you\"--\"Rosy\u003cbr\u003e         Apple, Lemon, and Pear\"--The King of the\u003cbr\u003e         Barbarines--\"I've got Gold and I've got Silver\"--A\u003cbr\u003e         Lancashire Round Game--\"Fol th' riddle, I do, I do, I\u003cbr\u003e         do\"--Round Game of the Mulberry Bush--\"Pray, Mr. Fox,\u003cbr\u003e         what time is it?\"--\"Mother, buy me a Milking\u003cbr\u003e         Can\"--\"Here comes a Poor Sailor from Botany Bay\"--\"Can\u003cbr\u003e         I get there by Candle-light?\"                                58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. NURSERY GAMES--A Game for a Wet Day--\"Cows and Horses walk\u003cbr\u003e         on four legs\"--A Game nearly 300 years old--\"There were\u003cbr\u003e         two birds sitting on a stone\"--A B C Game--\"Hi diddle\u003cbr\u003e         diddle\"--\"I Apprentice my Son\"--An Armenian Child's\u003cbr\u003e         Game, \"Jack's Alive\"--Russian Superstition                   80","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145647210736,"sku":"2940013468917","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013468917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}