Many other instances of the antiquity of these rhymes will be found under their respective headings. Amongst the works on Nursery Rhymes which have been consulted, the following may be recommended to those who take an interest in their origin and history. _The Nursery Rhymes of England_, collected by James Orchard Halliwell. London. J. R. Smith. 1844. _Arundines Cami_, edited by Henry Drury, A.M. Cambridge, 1841. This contains Latin translations of many Nursery Rhymes, of which a few are given in the following pages. _Nursery Rhymes Revised._ By J. W. Palmer, 281, Strand, London, 1885. _A Paper on Nursery Rhymes_, by Alfonzo Gardiner, see parts VIII. & IX. _Yorkshire Notes and Queries_, 1887. _The Gladstone Umbrella_, or Political Dainties. An illustrated pamphlet, curious as having been published (in 1885) by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, whose name seldom appears in connection with anything so ephemeral as a political skit. _The People’s William._ London. W. H. Allen & Co. Parody Competitions on Nursery Rhymes―― _Truth_――October 15, 1885; September 30, 1886; June 14, 1888; June 28, 1888. _The Weekly Dispatch_――April 13, 1884; July 5, 1885; October 2, 1887. _One and All_――Various dates, from 1879 to 1881. These were all political, and are now of no interest. ――――:o:―――― THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. This is the house that Jack built. This is the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. * * * * * This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crow’d in the morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tatter’d and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Very few would suspect that “The House that Jack built” is a comparatively modern version of an ancient Jewish hymn, sung at the feast of the Passover. Yet such is the case, according to the late Dr. Halliwell Phillips, who gives the following translation of the allegorical Talmudic Hymn, taken from _Sepher Haggadah_, folio 23. This, he says, was first translated by Professor P. N. Leberecht, of Leipsic, in 1731. The original, from which the Hebrew version was translated, is in the Chaldaic language. 1. A _kid_, a kid my father bought, For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid. 2. Then came the _cat_ and ate the kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid. 3. Then came the _dog_, and bit the cat, That ate the kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid.