A
HISTORY
OF
NURSERY
RHYMES
BY
PERCY B. GREEN
LONDON
GREENING & CO., LTD.
20, CECIL COURT
CHARING CROSS ROAD
1899
Now Reissued by
Singing Tree Press
1249 Washington Blvd., Detroit, Michigan. 1968
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-31082
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significantamendments are noted at the end of the text.
Archaic and dialect spellings remain as printed.
Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος.
CONTENTS
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| Introduction | xiii | |
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| CHAP. | ||
| I. | Prehistoric man—His language one of signs and sounds—Thestory of Psammetichus and the Two Babies—Idiom oflanguage a survival of primitive peoples | 1 |
| II. | Modern types of early man—Sign-language of people living onthe globe to-day—The custom of the Uvinza grandees—The"good-morning" of the Walunga tribe—Signs ofhospitality in the sign vocabulary of the North AmericanIndian—The "attingere extremis digitis" of theRomans—Clap-hands one of the first lessons of theNursery—The modern survival of hand-clapping—"Is itrude to shake hands, Nurse?"—A hypercriticalmother—Plato's rebuke—Agesilaus and hischildren—Nursery classics and critical babies—"Lalla,lalla, lalla" of the Roman child—The well-known babydance of "Crow and caper, caper and crow" | 8 |
| III.[viii] | Writers on comparative religions show that entire religiousobservances come down to modern peoples from heathensources—The Bohemian Peasant and his Apple Tree—A mythof long descent found in the rhyme of "A Woman, aSpaniel, and Walnut Tree"; our modern "Pippin, pippin,fly away," indicates the same sentiment—The fairy taleof Ashputtel and the Golden Slipper, the legend fromwhich came our story of Cinderella—Tylor on Children'sSports—The mystery of Northern Europe at Christ'scoming—The Baby's Rattle—Ancestral worship follows sunand moon worship, and gives us the tales of fairies,goblins, and elves—Boyd Dawkins' story of the Isle ofMan farmer—A Scandinavian Manxman—Modernised lullabyof a Polish mother—"Shine, Stars"—"Rain, rain, goaway"—Wind making—Lullabies—Bulgarian, German,"Sleep, Baby, Sleep"—The lullaby of the BlackGuitar—"Baby, go to Sleep"—English version, "Hushthee, my Babby"—Danish lullaby of "Sweetly sleep, mylittle Child"—"Bye, baby bunting" | 17 |
| IV. | Elf-land—Old-time superstitions—A custom of providing afeast for the dead known i ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |