5 MAY 1900, Page 24

Rhymes Old and New. Collected by M. E. S. Wright.

(T. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Wright has collected a number of rhymes about the weather, about animals, games, men, women, and children, choosing, for the most part, such as are less familiar. The most curious, and on the whole most interesting, are the "Baby Songs." Here is the beginning of one of which we should like to hear the history :— " Baby, baby, naughty baby I Hush, you squalling thing, I say, Hush this moment, or it may be, Wellington will pass this way."

It is a proof of greatness to be made a name of terror. We maY notice also the county and dialect songs. Miss Wright has spent her pains to good purpose in making this collection.