THE MOTHER'S NURSERY SONGS. PY THOMAS HASTINGS. A NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY M. W. DODD, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, OPPOSITE CITY HALL. 1853. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY M. W. DODD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK THOMAS B. SMITH, 216 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y. 11 P RE F А СЕ. THE author of the following pages was one day conversing with a lady of some distinction, relative to the importance of teaching young children to sing, when a question arose-whether anything could be done by the mother in this respect, during the period of the early infancy of her offspring? This inquiry, with the discussion that ensued, gave rise to the present publication. Great originality will hardly be expected in such a work as this: yet many of the materials here presented have not elsewhere appeared. A few extracts have been furnished from the writings of Jane Taylor. And for several of the other little poems, the author is happy to acknowledge his obligations to literary friends, among whom are the Rev. James Alexander, D.D., of this city, Mrs. Sigourney, of Hartford, Connecticut, and Mrs. Brown, of Munson, Massachusetts. The object of the work, as will be readily inferred from its special characteristics, is to aid mothers in attuning the voices of their infant offspring, and inspiring them with the love of vocal music. |