15 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 19

"JTJMPING JOAN.'

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR']

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. A. J. Robertson, might have reminded you that the air which, in " Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre," is satirical, is jovial in "For he's a jolly good fellow," and the most, sentimental of ballad tunes in Cherubino's Romance in the second act of the " Manage de Figaro."—I