Verses for Children - and Songs for Music

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Verses for Children, by Juliana Horatia Ewing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Verses for Children and Songs for Music Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing Release Date: September 12, 2005 [EBook #16686] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VERSES FOR CHILDREN *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net VERSES FOR CHILDREN AND SONGS FOR MUSIC BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, Northumberland Avenue, W.C. New York: E. & J.B. YOUNG & CO. [Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.] PREFACE It has been decided in publishing this volume to reproduce the illustrations with which the verses originally appeared in Aunt Judy's Magazine. In all cases Mrs. Ewing wrote the lines to fit the pictures, and it is worthy of note to observe how closely she has introduced every detail into her words. Most of the woodcuts are by German artists, Oscar Pletsch, Fedor Flinzer, and others; but the frontispiece is from an original sketch by Mr. Gordon Browne. In accordance with his special desire, it has only been used for Mrs.