Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — English Lads Shout "Marseillaise.” [ARTICLE]

English Lads Shout "Marseillaise.”

Never say that the English are not a musical people. You shall meet seven little muddy boys, keeping loyally to the gutter, clad in not many inches of old clothes, and none of them so much as ten years old. Yet they will all be wbnntlng the whole of the “Marseillaise," which is not an eight-bar tune, but a very complex melody, without a mistake. Whether the London urchin has been furnished with a translation of the French battle hymn it .would be hard to say, for though the music is well rendered the words are indistinguishable. —London Chronicle.