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FAMOUS SONGS
his opera," Le Carnaval de Venise," and Victor Masse makes use of it in his " Reine Topaz," with the words,
" Venise est tout en fetes Car void le Carnaval,"
and in England it used to be sung to the words beginning,
" O come to me, I'll row thee o'er Across yon peaceful sea."
The original from which Sir Walter Scott's " Romance of Dunois" is taken makes part of a manuscript collection of French Songs (prob-ably compiled by some young officer) which was found on the field of Waterloo, so much stained with clay and blood as sufficiently to indicate the fate of its late owner. The song (" Partant pour la Syne," written and composed by Queen Hortense of Holland, daughter of Josephine and the mother of Napoleon III.) is popu-lar in France and is a good specimen of the style of composition to which it belongs. Sir Walter translated the song in 1815, and also another one of Queen Hortense's—" The Trou-badour."
The Prussian hymn, which is capable of thrill-ing the whole German Empire, celebrated, in
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