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FAMOUS SONGS
Charles Dickens was particularly taken with this poem—by the way, though Dickens wrote several songs, the only one that achieved any popularity was the " Ivy Green," which first ap-peared as a contribution from the clergyman in chapter vi. of the " Pickwick Papers." Henry Russell, who was always ready to snap up a good thing, set it to music, and sang it with considerable success.
Before finishing the section dealing with English songs, I think the following particulars concerning the brilliant Savoy opera composer and others may not be inappropriate
In a recent memoir of Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mr. Charles Willeby cites many instances of the 'composer's remarkable rapidity in work. " Contrabandista," which followed " Cox and Box," was composed, scored, and rehearsed within sixteen days from the receipt of the libretto. The overture to " lolanthe" was com-menced at nine o'clock one morning and fin-ished at seven the next morning. The overture to the " Yeomen of the Guard" was composed and scored in twelve hours; while the magni-ficent epilogue to the " Golden Legend" was composed and scored within twenty-four hours. How the " Lost Chord," perhaps the most suc-cessful song of modern times came to be written
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