![]() ![]() ![]() It was one of these books that John Ruskin declared to be the most beneficent and innocent of all books yet produced. ![]() But whatever new form the changing public taste may cause them to take, they will remain as fresh to the end as they are to day. Several generations of children old as well as young have already drunk delight from them, and it is tolerably safe to prophesy that many editions will yet be demanded. He might have added certain writings and among those that are as fresh to day as when they were written are the Nonsense Books of Edward Lear. Oliver Wendell Holmes has said in a well known poem, that There is nothing that keeps its youth So far as I know but a tree and truth. The Publishers feel, therefore, that in re issuing the songs adequately illustrated, they are but bringing them into line with Mr. Lear did not illustrate them as fully as was his custom some, indeed, had no drawings at all, and others merely a headpiece. For the benefit of those whose memories of the Nonsense Songs are not as fresh as they should be, it may be repeated that Mr. In addition to The Jumblies, which has been adopted as the titular piece, this volume includes such prime favourites as The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Duck and the Kangaroo, and The Dong with a Luminous Nose. ![]()
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