_The Spectator_ on Gardens—“Cones, Globes, and Pyramids”—Good counsels in rhyme—Verse in the Schoolroom—Didactic rhymes—Dr. Watts’s _Divine and Moral Songs_—_Puerilia; or, Amusements for the Young; Gammer Gurton’s Garland_ and _Songs for the Nursery_—The Sublime Truant—Rules and prescriptions—_Original Poems for Infant Minds_—The old garden and the new—Jane Taylor’s verses—_Poetry for Children_, by Charles and Mary Lamb—_The Butterfly’s Ball_ and other festivals—Miss Turner’s cautionary rhymes—“Edward, or Rambling Reasoned on”—The triumph of nonsense and rhythm.