Two Hundred Songs for Junior and Senior High Schools

piece of work, undertaken as a contribution to the Schubert centenary, and carried through with unremitting care. There is no time or space to picture in detail the research and labor involved. The original book written by Wilhelmina von Chezy-and which appears to have been the principal cause for the failure of the musical play-has disappeared. The music itself was long lost, is not certainly all recovered now, and there was no guide, since the play itself was missing, as to the order in which the musical numbers had appeared. The story of the reconstruction of the work under these and many similar difficulties is told in an Introduction, and is a fascinating story in itself. Not without patient labor and the cooperation of many gifted and conscientious workers could the complete book be issued. Alexander Dean, Assistant Professor of Drama, School of Fine Arts, Yale University, reconstructed and wrote the book; Ann Marie Smith arranged the piano score and the finale; Charles L. Mudge translated the lyrics; Frank Poole Bevan designed the scenes and costumes; Francis Findlay, Director of the Department of Public School Music, New England Conservatory of Music, orchestrated the interpolated solos and transposed orchestral parts to fit modern instrumentation.