WELSH, CHARLES--An Appeal for Nursery Rhymes and Jingles. _Dial_ (Chicago), 27:230 (1 Oct., 1899). * * * * * FATHER OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS--_Current Literature_, 27:110. WELSH, CHARLES--A Bookseller of the Last Century. Griffith, Farren & Co. London. * * * * * BATCHELDER, F. R.--Patriot Printer. _New England Mag._, n.s. 25:284 (N. ‘01). EVANS, CHARLES--American Bibliography. A Chronological Dictionary of all Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America. From the genesis of Printing in 1639 Down to and Including the Year 1820. With Bibliographical and Biographical Notes. Privately Printed for the Author by the Blakely Press, Chicago. Anno Domini MDCCCCIII. Thus far issued: Vol. I. 1639–1729; Vol. II. 1730–1750; Vol. III. 1751–1764. * * * * * LIVINGSTON, L. S.--American Publisher of a Hundred Years Ago. _Bookman_, 11:530 (Aug., ’00). NICHOLS, CHARLES L.--Some Notes on Isaiah Thomas and his Worcester Imprints. _Am. Antiq. Soc._, 1899–1900, n.s., 13:429. THOMAS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN--Memoir of Isaiah Thomas. By his Grandson. Boston, 1874. * * * * * HEWINS, CAROLINE M.--The History of Children’s Books. _Atlantic_, 61:112 (Jan., 1888). WELSH, CHARLES.--The Early History of Children’s Books in New England. _New England Mag._, n.s. 20:147–60 (April, 1899). YONGE, CHARLOTTE M.--Children’s Literature of the Last Century. _Liv. Age_, 102:373 (Aug. 7, 1869); 612 (Sept. 4, 1869); 103:96 (Oct. 9, 1869). FOOTNOTES: [15] In “The Child and His Book,” by Mrs. E. M. Field (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1892), the reader is referred to chapters: Before the Norman Conquest; Books from the Conquest to Caxton; The Child in England, 1066–1640. Her researches form an invaluable contribution to the history of children’s books, furnishing sources for considerable speculation. Much is included of interest to the antiquarian only. [16] Thomas Newbery was the author. _Vide_ Fugitive Tracts, 1875. Hazlitt and Huth. [17] As early as 1262, the _macaronic_ style of delivering sermons was customary. The gradual substitution of the vernacular for Latin is dealt with in the introduction to the present author’s edition of “Everyman,” 1903, xxvii. [18] CHAP = An abbreviation of Chapman, which seems to have come into vulgar use in the end of the 16th c.; but it is rare in books, even in the dramatists, before 1700. It was not recognised by Johnson. 1577 BRETON _Toyes Idle_ Head (Grosart). Those crusty chaps I cannot love. _a._ A buyer, purchaser, customer.