SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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The Motherl«nd Song Book. (Stainer and Bell. ls. Bd. net.)— This little collection of songs, the first volume of a series to be issued by the League of the Arts for National and Civic Ceremony, is" intruded mainly for professional use at the forthcoming Peace Celebrations," although it is hoped that the songs shalt also serve at any timo" when it is desired to express the more serious spiritual elements of our national life." We are glad to see that the editors, judging from Vol. L, intend to cast their net wide. The first collection ranges from such old favourites as "The Minstrel Boy " and Purcell's ever-delightful " Fairest Isle " to songs by Rutland Boughton, John Ireland, and G. Hoist. It is the in- tention of the League to publish other volumes which will sound other notes, festive and light-hearted, " and little by little to build up a Song-Book which shall reflect, more fully, the qualities of our national idealism."
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