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 Second Edition small fcp. 8vo. price 5s.

BY

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

HARPER'S MAGAZINE.

'This various Author now appears as the Laureate of children, presenting us with such exquisite lyrics of childhood as can only be paralleled in "Blake's Songs of Innocence.

GRAPHIC.

'This book is sure to be one of the treasured volumes of every wholesome nursery.'

ATHENÆUM.

'This volume is one which can be enjoyed by very young persons, but will be appreciated still more by men and women, who, when they see in its pages the reflex of their own childhood, will say involuntarily as they turn over the pages, "How charming, and how true!

PALL MALL GAZETTE.

'The child is father to the man, and the Robert Louis Stevenson of to-day clearly takes after his father as figured for us in this delightful little book. It is autobiographical rather than dramatic. Mr. Stevenson does not attempt a many-sided view of child-life, does not seek to depict varieties of child character, but sets himself to reflect the moods of one particular child, well known to him.'

SCOTSMAN.

'This dainty little volume will be a joy to many a nursery. None but a lover of children, who has kept his own heart young, could have written those rhymes. They are as simple and natural as a meadow-posy of daisies and buttercups; and yet all are sparkling with the fresh dew of youthful imagination.'

SCHOOL GUARDIAN.

'The charm of these verses is that they are just the things that children whom we know might have thought and said. We can cordially recommend this clever and bright book to those who have to find charming reading for young children.'

London: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.