Excerpt from The Mother's Nursery Songs The same course in reference to singing would be rewarded with the same success. Though the mother should be quite ignorant of the simplest principles of the science her skill in 'minstrelsy would suffice for the work immediately before her. Let her also frame some simple clauses of melody, that are very similar to those she notices in the mimicry of her child, gradually heightening their character as the child improves its vocal powers. All these exercises perhaps will be inarticulate and in some case the child will make more rapid progress in song than in speech. 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.