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“LITTLE SONGS FOR LITTLE SINGERS.”

The little folks will soon have a microcosm—­a world of their own.  The other day we noticed the “Boy’s Own Book,” and the girls are promised a match volume:  children, too, have their own camerae obscurae; there are the Cosmoramas at the Bazaar, as great in their way as Mr. Hornor’s Panorama at the Colosseum; besides half a dozen Juvenile Annuals, in which all the literary children of larger growth write.  At our theatres, operas are sung by children, and the pantomimes are full of juvenile fun.  In short, every thing can be had adapted to all ages; till we begin to think it is once a world and twice a little world.  But we have omitted the pretty little productions named at the head of this article.  They consist of seven little songs for little people, set to music on small-sized paper, so that the little singer may hold the song after the orchestra fashion, without hiding her smiles. 1.  The Little Fish, harmonized from Nursery Rhymes; 2.  The Little Robin; 3.  The Little Spider and his Wife, from Original Poems; 4.  The Little Star, from Nursery Rhymes; 5.  A Summer Evening, from the Infant Minstrel; 6.  Come Away, Come Away, to the air of the Swiss Boy, by Mr. Green, the publisher; and, 7.  The Little Lady Bird:—­

  Lady Bird!  Lady Bird! fly away home,
    The field-mouse is gone to her nest,
  The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes,
    And the bees and the birds are at rest. 
  Lady Bird!  Lady Bird! fly away home,
    The glow-worm is lighting his lamp,
  The dew’s falling fast, and your fine speckled wings
    Will be wet with the close-clinging damp. 
  Lady Bird!  Lady Bird! fly away home,
    The fairy bells tinkle afar;
  Make haste, or they’ll catch ye, and harness ye fast,
    With a cobweb, to Oberon’s car. 
  Lady Bird!  Lady Bird! fly away now
    To your home in the old willow-tree,
  Where your children so dear have invited the ant,
    And a few cosy neighbours to tea.

There is some novelty and ingenuity in adapting the words and music of songs for young singers.  Love, war, and drinking songs are very well for adults, but are out of time in the nursery or schoolroom; for these predilections spring up quite early enough in the bosoms of mankind.  We should not forget the vignette lithographs to the little songs, which are beautifully executed by Hullmandel.  All beginners will do well to see these songs, for we know many of the “larger growth” who are little singers.

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