Note (return) — SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

But of all the composers of his own day, Shield6 was his favourite; and justly. He furnished him with most of his popular songs. The singer was the peculiar organ of the composer—his "Thorn," his "Mouth which a Smile," "Tom Moody," "Heaving the Lead," and many, many others, seem to have faded away with the voice of the melodist.