It's a collection of nursery rhymes. What else do you really need to know?There's a good handful of the more popular Mother Goose rhymes in this book - Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Ba Ba Blacksheep, Hey Diddle Diddle - but most of the rhymes are the ones that never got much repetition. Probably be...
[These notes were made in 1984. I read this in the Howell, "de luxe" edition, undated but 19th-century:]. A very Scott-ian novel, with three mysterious parentages, a haunted room, secret tunnel, a Leontes-Hermione motif and two ghosts, one real and one fake. That's on the serious, "gentry" side. T...