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In issuing this new edition of the " Nonsense Songs " the
Publishers desire to say that, feeling Mr. Lear had, con-
trary to his usual custom, presented these songs to the public
illustrated in the slightest manner only, they have, with the
assistance of Mr. L, Leslie Brooke, endeavoured to create a
wider interest in verses which for so many years have given
unwonted pleasure to thousands of readers.
A generation has already passed since these songs were
penned, but their humour is of the kind that does not evaporate
after a few years, and they are as fresh to-day as when first
published. In the " Introduction," written by him for the Ninth
Edition of " Nonsense Songs and Stories," Sir Edward Strachey
asks, " What is Nonsense r " and after declaring that "Nonsense
. . . has shown itself to be a true work of the imagination,
a child of genius, and its writing one of the fine arts," he goes
on to say that
" From the days when Aristotle Investigated the philosophy
of laughter, and Aristoph'aties gave' -laughter its fullest I might
say its maddest expr.?ssi^Ti on -the stage at Athens, down to
this week's issue of Pua-c-h', Nonsense has asserted and made
good its claim to a place among the Arts. It has indeed pressed
each of them in turn into its service. Nonsense has found the
highest expression of itself in music, painting, sculpture, and
every form of poetry and prose. The so-called Nonsense Club,
which could count Hogarth and Cowper among its members,
must have been worthy of the name, for so we have the ' March
to Finchley ' and 'John Gilpin
' to testify ; but as far as I know
Edward Lear first openly gave Njnsense its due place and
honour when he called what he wrote pure and absolute
Nonsense, and gave the affix of 'Nonsense' to every kind of
subject; and while we may say, as Johnson did of Goldsmith,
that there was hardly a subject which he did not handle, we
may add with Johnson, that there was none that he did not
adorn by his handling. His pen and pencil vied with each
other in pouring forth new kinds of Nonsense Songs, Nonsense
Stories, Nonsense Alphabets, and Nonsense Botany. The
music to which he set the 'Pelican Chorus' is worthy of the
words to which it is wedded ; and those who remember the
humorous melancholy with which the old man sat down at the
piano to play and sing this song will give his Nonsense Music
a place too."

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