NURSERY rhymes-those quaint and haunting little verses that are still told by nurses to their children even in this wireless age-are interesting not merely because of their associations with our earliest memories, but because many of them have a long and important history of their own. Miss Molly Swabey has gone deeply into this subject, with a view to writing a book about it, and in this afternoon's talk she will give some surprising information about the origin of some of the most artless of these rhymes.