"That is very beautiful and right, Joe, and I honor you for it; but you were not meant to tend babies, so sing your last lullabies, and be ready to go to the Home as soon as I can get you there.

Mr. M. seems indeed to have a turn for this species of Nursery Tales and prattling Lullabies; and, if he will studiously cultivate his talent, he need not despair of figuring in a conspicuous corner of Mr NEWBERY's shop window: unless indeed Mrs. TRIMMER should think fit to proscribe those empty levities and idle superstitions, by which the World has been too long abused.

~With a Copy of Keats.~ Like listless lullabies of sail-swept seas Heard from still coves, and dulcet-soft as these, Such is the echo of his perfect song, It lives, it lingers long!

Aye, even to the memories which were the possession of that far future youth, who was indeed I, of his childhood's days, when his nurse of that Age swung him, and crooned impossible lullabies of this mythical sun which, according to those future fairy-tales, had once passed across the blackness that now lay above the Pyramid.

BOOKS Edited by ELVA S. SMITH Cataloguer of Children's Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Illustrated Cloth GOOD OLD STORIES for Boys and Girls MYSTERY TALES for Boys and Girls PEACE AND PATRIOTISM HEROINES OF HISTORY AND LEGEND MORE MYSTERY TALES for Boys and Girls A BOOK OF LULLABIES Edited by ELVA S. SMITH and ALICE I. HAZELTINE St. Louis Public Library CHRISTMAS IN LEGEND AND STO

The early dew baptized it; the great sun laid his hot hand upon its brow and named it Death, in the name of the Mighty God; and the evening stars looked down on me, rocking Alice in my soul, and singing lamentful lullabies to her, sleeping, till such time as Lethean vapors curled through the horizon of my mind, and hid its formless shadows of suffering.

I've crooned lullabies to Jacky without remembering that I once had volume enough to drown out an accompanist.

She was clasping a beautiful wax doll to her bosom, and singing sweet lullabies to it.

The little birds heard them and began to trill sweet lullabies, which presently lulled them to rest.

Her place was at the end of a long line of dusky nurses, the first of whom landed nearly three centuries ago at James Towne, and crooned to the children of the royal governors the weird minor lullabies of jungle-land.

John W. Bennett (A); 4Jan73; R543382. BENNETT, JUANITA C. Baby is one: singing verses and lullabies.

Baby is one: singing verses and lullabies.

Baby is one: singing varies and lullabies.

John W. Bennett (A); 4Jan73; R543382. BENNETT, JUANITA C. Baby is one: singing verses and lullabies.

Baby is one: singing verses and lullabies.

Baby is one: singing varies and lullabies.

Lullabies from every land; for voice and piano.

During the afternoon a little program of previously arranged "mother" songs, lullabies and readings by some of the guests may agreeably interrupt the chat.

THE TWO LULLABIES THE FIRST HYMN.

[Illustration] THE TWO LULLABIES.

Once songs as lullabies to thee I sung, To sleep hath sung thee now an angel's tongue." From the German of Ruckert.

" With cheerful face and warm heart she went among the soldiers, now writing letters, now washing faces, and now singing lullabies.

The gray walls, broken, weatherworn oracles, Sing that she was once a girl of love and laughter, Then a fair mother with lullabies on her lips, Caresses in her eyes, who spent her days In weaving warmth to keep her brood against the winter cold.

She saw the babies laid in the bells of the plant, which were thus used as cradles, and the music was formed of many lullabies.

One I visited armed with a dressing-tray full of rollers, plasters, and pins; another, with books, flowers, games, and gossip; a third, with teapots, lullabies, consolation, and sometimes a shroud.