- In the adaptation to Mr. Walter Crane's “ Pan-pipes,” of these old

homely ditties I have rather aimed at simplicity and a somewhat

-countrified manner than an air of archeology. With some, I have
- taken a singer's license in the way of slight alterations, I might call
them “ individualities ;” much as a country-piper might take with tunes

“so familiar as to become almost a part of himself. I need hardly say
that the task which has been one of extreme delight to me, would

have been most difficult, perhaps impossible, without the learned and —
well-known selections of Mr. Chappell and Mr. Hullah, I have also
‘to thank Mr. ‘Stanly Lucas for permission to include Mr. Lawson’s
‘setting of the old “Come live with me.” We had intended to gather
only from an old-world garden—the. pansy and marjoram of song as it
“were—but we were frail before Mr. Lawson’s tudoresque and most
sympathetic melody. = ae oe ae
uae ts THEO. MARZIALS.