3 APRIL 1926, Page 19

" Oh, we'm come up from Somerset,

Where the cider apples grow "

is a chorus only fourteen years old, but it has travelled the length and breadth of the British Empire. The reminiscences of its author, Mr. Fred Weatherley, collected under the title of Piano and Gown (Putnam, 10s. Od.) make a very jolly volume, proving how great a success comes to the producer of " best-sellers " in drawing-room ballads.