Excerpt from Ballads of Babyland: English and American Equally with these, authors I have to thank their publishers; and especially thanks are due, and are hereby gratefully acknowledged, to Messrs. Macmillan 81 Co. George Routledge 81 Sons; Smith, Elder Co.; and W. R. Chambers, for their readily-granted per mission to include selections from the published works of esteemed authors who within recent years have passed from songland to Songland. Two or three pieces are included. The authors of which could not be traced. But they were too good to be left out; and the authors, when they discover them, we assume, will not feel inclined to dispute the fitness of their habitat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.