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FAMOUS SONGS
My Darling Colleen/' and " Dermot Astore." He also composed several operas.
When William IV. died, Crouch was com-manded to attend the coronation of Queen Victoria. Subsequently he became musical teditor for the firm of D'Almaine and Company, Soho Square, who contracted for all his songs for the ensuing seven years. Next he was offered and accepted the post of musical re-viewer on the " Metropolitan Magazine," edited by Captain Marryat, R.N., the immortal teller of sea stories. In his new capacity Crouch came to know intimately most of the literary celebrities of the period, and in a letter to his nephew at Liverpool he said, regarding a copy of Dickens's " Chimes," which had not reached him, " The ' Chimes' not arrived, though much desired for old association's sake with my fellow scribe Charles Dickens. We wrote together with Mrs. Abdy, Mrs. Crawford, Countess Blessington, Douglas Jerrold, Thackeray, Mar-ryat, Poole, and others in the pages of the ' Metropolitan Magazine,' published by Chap-man and Hall, who were publishing Dickens's ' Sketches by Boz.' "
In 1849 Crouch left England for America, and he never returned. He was first associated with Max Maretzek in New York. Afterwards
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