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FAMOUS SONGS
effect that the composer was either under a con-tract to supply a song hy a certain time, or that he wished to raise the immediate wind, and so set Lionel N. Lewin's words of " Once Again/' while on a Saturday to Monday visit at a friend's house, and " realized" without delay on his re-turn to town. Anyhow, this is another very popular song of Sir Arthur's, especially with sucking young tenors.
The melody of that fine song " The Vaga-bond," composed by James L. Molloy to Charles Lamb Kenney's words, was originally used in an operetta by Mr. Molloy to a drinking song. The piece was called "The Student's Frolic," written by Arthur Sketchley. The piece fell flat, all but the " Beer, Beer, Beautiful Beer" melody, which was divorced by Molloy and married to " The Vagabond."
One popular song writer finds that his music can be best cultivated by riding in a hansom cab; another prefers the underground railway. The noise and rhythm of the rail bring inspira-tion to him, he says, which proves that even our best abused institutions have their uses. Mr. Milton Wellings composed his very suc-cessful song " Some Day" under the following circumstances:—His wife was away yachting round the Isle of Wight, and he was travelling
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