... . NITA Spanish Serenade, words and music by J. L. Ximenes Y. Pena, published by C. Jefferys, 67, Berners Street, is remarkably good of its kind; but its kind belongs to a generation or two ago. Romantic love ballads, especially for male voices, are out of date. A man's love song, to stand by itself and make its mark now, must be of such powerful composition as to claim a place among the great ...

... . THREE DAYS a love song, words by Clement Scott, music by Annie Tait, and published by Stanley Lucas, Weber, and Co., 84 New Bond-street and325 Oxford-street w., is neither Btartling in it novelty nor particularly tuneful in its melody. The words, too are uneven in in There are glimpses of poetic light in some of the lines while in others there is a puerility quite unworthy the pen from which ...