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Show Famous Songs Women Have Composed. Com-posed. It is not generally known that women have composed a majority of the well known sentimental songs loved by men and women. Lady John Scott gave to the musical world "Annie Laurie," Lady '. Arthur Hill is author of that charming I ballad. "In the Gloaming," and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Norton is responsible for that lenmiorous melody "Juanita," Lady Scott Gattie composed "Douglas, Ter.der and True," and "Maryland, My Maryland" Mary-land" owed the thrill of its spirited tune to a woman, the late Mrs. Newell Martin of iBaltimore. Mrs. Fitzgerald made the meloday of "I Remember, I Remember," and the musical pathos of "Auld Robin Gray" originated in the brain of Lady Ann Landsay. Lady Nairne, a charming Scotch woman, has contributed two songs that need only to be sung in any clime to cause every wearer of the tartan to throw his plaid cap to the breeze. There are "The Campbells Are Coming" and "The Land of the Leal." She also wrote the well known "Laird of Cockpen," which, with that other famous old tune, "Ben Bolt." has beea revived to memory by "Trilby."- - - |