A History of Nursery Rhymes (Illustrated)

A few leading thoughts culled from such men as Tylor, Lubbock, Wilson, McLennan, Frazer, and Boyd Dawkins, etc., the experiences of our modern travelers among primitive races, Indian and European folk-lore, the world's credulities past and present, have helped to fix the idea that amongst the true historians of mankind the children of our streets find a place.