Author: Lavinia Edna Walter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781333569686

Excerpt from Some Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France and Russia: Selected and Rhymed Into English The Russian songs with their original harmonies and illustrations are from a popular children's book published in Moscow. I should like to thank Miss Winerich for helping me to get the spirit of these Russian songs which she had sung as a child in the great country of her birth. No Belgian children's book could be found, no permission could be obtained, even to use one or two of the children's songs occurring in modern Belgian collections in England, so 1 have had to obtain them chie y from the mouths of those who have been driven from their land by the tragedy of the war. I should especially like to thank M. Bouckenooghe and M. Sturbelle for the kind assistance they have given me in this connection. The songs Little Man John, Little Scamp, The Giant, Where are you off to, my Marie so fair Sleep, Laddie, Sleep, belong to the Flemish-speaking provinces; Dance Marienika is sung in both French and Flemish parts, and the other two in the French provinces. These airs have been harmonised by Miss Lucy Broadwood, and illustrated by M. Alfred Bastien, a Belgian artist, who made these drawings in the trenches whilst fighting for his King and country. 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."