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died of consumption; her portrait, painted by Fitz-Ball, is now in the possession of the drama-tist's daughter.
In the original version of " My Pretty Jane," as printed in " Thirty-five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life,'5 and as it is sung to this day, the second verse begins :
" Oh, name the day, the wedding day, And I will buy the ring; The Bridal Maids in garlands gay, And village bells shall ring."
The false rhyme in the second and fourth lines being pointed out to him by George Linley, Fitz-Ball altered the same when he re-published the lyric in his work, " The House to Let: With other Poems," in 1857, as under:
" But name the day, the wedding day, And I will buy the rag; The bells shall peal love's roundelay, And village maids shall sing "
Edward Fitz-Ball was a curious man, but a most indefatigable worker. He died October 27th, 1873, aged eighty years.
Besides " My Pretty Jane," which was origin-ally published as "When the Bloom is on the Rye," with a portrait of George Robinson on the cover, Fitz-Ball wrote at least three
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