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A domestic drama entitled "Kathleen Ma-vourneen, or St. Patrick's Eve" was produced in New York in 1865, and seems to have been very successful, and has been played in London and through the provinces. "Kathleen Ma-vourneen" is introduced into the piece, also "Wilt thou be my bride, Kathleen ?" and " Kathleen, are you goin' to lave me ?"
Professor Frederick Nicholls Crouch, F R.S., died at Portland, U. S., on August 18th, 1896, aged eighty-nine, having been born in 1808. He married four times, and though partially blind, he worked till the last moment almost of his life. A sympathetic account of his career appeared in "The Era" newspaper, which is worth quoting.
Although he was not without honour in the land of his adoption, which has conferred upon him the distinctions of Doctor of Music, Master of Arts, and Bardic President for the State of Maryland, the old composer occasionally re-gretted the " false step" he made in leaving his motherland in 1849, and in one of his last let-ters to his nephew wrote:—" When I made the false step of leaving England for America I literally buried myself, and have been lost to the world ever since. England gave me a reputation and a name; America cremated me."
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