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FAMOUS SONGS
"O yes thou'lt Remember," 1854; "Stars Shining Above," i860; "Still in my Dreams" (words by G. Linley), 1857; "Thou art my Guiding Star" (Linley), 1858; and "When I am far away" (words by Miss G. B. Burton), 1848. George Linley and H. Foley Hall were two distinct persons I am assured by one who knew both, but I am unable to find any par-ticulars of Hall's life or what sort of a man he was, except that he was somewhat erratic. All the lyrics that he set were of an extremely sentimental nature, and not of a very high poetic standard. How the circumstantial story of " Ever of Thee" came to be written I cannot say; but I am now in a position to prove that James Lawson and H. Foley Hall were not one and the same person, for there was such a per-son as Lawson, though the publisher refuses to throw any light on the subject.
Since writing the foregoing, I have met two gentlemen who were acquainted with Foley Hall, and I have heard from others who knew both Hall and Lawson. The fact is, that though this singularly circumstantial story may be quite true as far as the reporter is concerned to whom some one, Lawson presumably, stated the mat-ter, it is otherwise false from beginning to end. A magnificent effort of some one's—James Law-
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