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FAMOUS SONGS
them up as leading publishers. The composer is still writing songs. It seems the fate of some writers to make everybody's fortune but their own.
Dr. Charles Mackay, who died on Christmas Eve, 1889, supplied Henry Russell with a vast number of lyrics, the majority of which will never die. " Cheer, Boys, Cheer," " There's a Good Time Coming," " Baby Mine," and " Eng-land, Dear England," may be mentioned as some of his happiest efforts. Sir Henry Bishop set no less than a hundred and twenty songs from his pen, many of which were written specially for the " Illustrated London News," to which the doctor contributed all kinds of literary matter. For Dr. Mackay, besides being a lyric writer, was a literary man of consider-able knowledge and ability, and acted at one time as sub-editor of the " Morning Chronicle." Indeed he secured the post when Thackeray was one of the applicants for the berth. Dr. Mackay also wrote for the " Daily News" under Charles Dickens and subsequent editors, and it was in the columns of that paper that " There's a Good Time Coming, Boys," was first printed. It was while Henry Russell was sing-ing this song with its string of wonderful things to happen in the good time coming, that an
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