The very title: _Mother Goose's Melody_, brings them into touch with the first book of fairy-tales; and indeed those two voices (the child's and the man's) can be heard here as in Perraulta merry new partnership of song and laughter, the one piping high in lively see-saw, the other declaiming a mock-learned "Preface", fitting each rhyme with an ironic "Note" or "Maxim", burlesquing the commentators and setting the wit of nursery sages against the wisdom of the pedants.
