¹ A Nursery Rhyme Book, with 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes (London, 1872), reprinted in 1893 with the addition of S poems.

² Although 3 of these anthologies are American publications, most of the authors represented are English. They are similar in every respect.

³ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Family Letters, with a memoir by William M. Rossetti (London, 1895), i, 61.

⁴ “The Little Scarecrow,” Capern, Little Lays for Little Folk.

⁵ “The Father's Knee,” James Ballantyne, Chimes for Childhood.

⁶ “The Linnet's Nest,” Original Poems.

⁷ “Lullaby,” Mary Forrest, Chimes for Childhood.

⁸ E. W. Thomas, Christina Georgina Rossetti (Columbia, 1931), p. 181; Dorothy M. Stuart, Christina Rossetti (London, 1930), p. 86.

⁹ “The Scramble for Sugar Plums,” Amelia Edwards, The Horn of Plenty.

¹⁰ Thomas, p. 182; Ross Douglas Waller, The Rossetti Family, 1824–1854 (Manchester, 1932), p. 239.

¹¹ Dora Greenwell, The Horn of Plenty.

¹² Scribner's Monthly, iii (1872), 629.

¹³ Both in Children with the Poets.

¹⁴ The title of a moral novel by Mary Howitt.

¹⁵ “Nimble Dick,” Original Poems.