7 JANUARY 1928, Page 22

If the Chelsea Song Book (The Cresset Press, 15s.) is

really representative of the songs -they sing in Chelsea—we have no idea whether it is or not—then Chelsea must com- mand our admiration. Here are twenty excellent old songs, Folk Songs, Shanties, and Cockney Songs, amusingly illustrated in colour, and with some exceptions newly arranged for the piano by Mr. Charles Kennedy Scott. Most of these new accompaniments are at least as musical as the earlier ones.

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