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NURSERY RHYMES 



when it had 

 grown wealthy as 

 an emporium for 

 the Oriental trade 

 of w Venice, and 

 was a great seat of 

 artistic manufac- 

 tures. Watches, 

 called Nuremberg 

 eggs, are said to 

 have been in- 

 vented here. De- 

 cay followed, but 

 Nuremberg main- 

 tained its liberties 

 and its territory of 483 sq. m. until 

 the 19th century, and its annexa- 

 tion by Bavaria in 1806 was fol- 

 lowed by renewed prosperity. The 

 Germans call it Nurnberg. Pop. 

 353,000. See The Story of Nurem- 

 berg, C. Headlam, 1899. 



Nurnberg. German light 

 cruiser. She was sunk by the Kent 

 in the battle of the Falkland 

 Islands (q.v.), Dec. 8, 1914. Pre- 

 vious to that she destroyed the 

 British cable station at Fanning 

 Island, Sept. 7, 1914, and partici- 

 pated in the battle of Coronel ('/.'. ). 

 Built at Kiel and completed in 

 1908, her dimensions were : length 

 354 ft., beam 44 ft., displacement 

 3,420 tons, engines 13,200 h.p., 

 and speed 23J knots. She carried 

 ten 4*1 in. and 14 smaller guns, 

 and two submerged torpedo tubes. 

 Another German light cruiser of 

 this name, launched in 1916, was 

 surrendered to Britain in Nov., 

 1918, and scuttled at Scapa by 

 her German crew, June, 1919. 



Nursery. Room for the use of 

 children. In addition to rooms so 

 used in private houses, large towns 

 have public or day nurseries where 

 children are looked after while 

 their mothers are at work (see 

 Creche).! By an extension the 

 word Unused for a garden or 



to contain trace* of heathen wor- 

 l,ip .UK! magical incantation*. In 

 .illusion* to historical event* 

 <>r politic ul < ontroversie* have been 

 suspected. But, in pile of much 

 diMUAftion, few definite result* 

 bare been attained. Some count- 

 ing-out rhymes contain WeUb 

 numeral* in a corrupt form. Other 

 rhyme*, accompanied by action, 

 are probably derived from me- 

 dieval dunce*. 



Reference* to some rhyme* 

 such a* Sing a Song of Sixpence 

 are to be found in Elizabethan 

 drama. The Wise Men of Gotham 

 (>/'.) probably dates from the 16th 

 century Some rhyme* are but 

 surviving scraps from much longer 

 piece*. Other* that have definitely 

 taken their places in the corpus of 

 British nursery rhyme* are demon- 

 strably modern, and of some the 

 authors are known. A Frog He 

 Would a Wooing Go, for instance, 

 was written by the comedian John 

 Listen, who, however, based it on 

 an earlier series of verses ; Wee 

 Willie Winkie was written by the 

 Scottish poet William Miller. 



Bibliography. Popular Rhymes 

 of Scotland, H. Chambers. 1826; 



plantation \\hei < 

 young trees and 

 plants for the 

 garden are reared, 

 the man in charge 

 being known as a 

 nurseryman. See 

 Garden and Gar- 

 dening; Grafting. 

 Nursery 

 Rhymes. Verses 

 repeated to young 

 children, ana often 

 handed down by 

 tradition. The 

 first actual collec- 

 tion is supposed 

 to have been made 

 in Boston, U.S.A., 

 in 1719; the first 

 known British 

 collection, Mother 

 Goose's Melody, 

 was issued about 

 1760 by John 

 Newbery, and 

 comprised but 

 30 pieces. It may 

 possibly have 

 been compiled and 

 in part written by Oliver Gold- 

 smith. To each of the rhyme* a 

 whimsical moral is appended. 



Nursery rhyme* are of the most 

 varied origin. Some are believed 



Nuremberg, Germany. 1. Hall-timbered house ol Al- 

 bert rarer. 2. Scheme Brunnen, a Gothic fountain 

 built in 1360 ; to the right is the Church ol our Lady. 

 3. Derrer Brncke, the 15th century bridge from the 

 island ol Trodelmarkt. 4. West Iront ol the church ol 

 S. Lawrence -. 



. \ri-liaeology of Our Popular Phrases 

 and Nursery Rhymes, J. B. Krr. 

 1837 ; The Nuwcrv Rhymes of 

 Kimlan.l. J. O. Halliwell-Phillippa. 

 1842; G ames and Songs of Aim rn,m 

 Children. \\.\V N \-weU. 2nd ed. 1903. 



