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Show A Baltimore claimant has just arisen to the authorship of the famous ballads, "Kathleen Mavourneen," and "Dermot Astore." It is Frederick W, N. Crouch, a professor of music sixty years old, who formerly lived at Plymouth, England. He produces the necessary proofs that he composed both melodies, for works written by a woman, and has assigned them to a London publisher for twenty pounds. Mr. Crouch says that "Kathleen Mavourneen" was first sung in public at his former home in Plymouth, July 14, 1836, and "Dermot Astore, t London, in 1840. |