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A FEW REMARKS

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This piece, together with "Windy Nights" (p. 13), "Whole Duty of Children" (p. 153), and “The Lamplighter" (p. 205), is from the late Robert Louis Stevenson's book, A Child's Garden of Verse, published by Messrs. Longmans and Co., and, with Mr. Robinson's delightful pictures, by Mr. John Lane. The following poem is by Mr. Norman Gale, and is taken from his Songs for Little People, published by Messrs. Constable and Co.:

The Lost Friend

ALL underneath the restless sea

Grief ran along a wire to me;

Children, your tender friend is gone-
Dear Robert Louis Stevenson.

With radiant smiles he reached his hands

To stroke the young of many lands;
Himself a man and boy in one-

Dear Robert Louis Stevenson.

Since he shall live on children's lips
In tales of treasure and of ships
What need to raise a tower of stone
For Robert Louis Stevenson?

Samoa nurses him in flowers,

For ever hers, for ever ours;
Incarnate tune, undying tone,
Dear Robert Louis Stevenson.

Page 3.

"The World's Music "

This piece is from The Child World, by Gabriel Setoun, published by Mr. John Lane. "Jack Frost" (p. 26) is from the same book.

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Pippa was a little Italian, one of the work-girls in a silk mill at Asolo, near Florence. One day she took a long holiday, and passed singing through the white town; and as she sang, certain persons heard her and were never quite the same afterwards. This was one of Pippa's songs. The story of that day is told in a play by Robert Browning, called Pippa Passes, from which the song is taken.

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