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Show Popular Army Ditties Not for Publication With the exception of a whiff of perfume, perhaps nothing can more rapidly call up a long-forgotten memory mem-ory from the subconscious mind than the lilt of a song. Long after tbe present deluge of war novels bos ceased and the controversy over their relative merits In depicting the facts forgotten, tbe men and women who saw, heard, tasted and smelled the great war at close quarters will And tbe only genuine echoes of those crowded years In the old army songs. If the British legion should take In hand, as is suggested, tbe compiling com-piling of a volume of those songs, along with the music, we predict for It a big and continuous sale. Unfortunately some of the songs were distinctly "unofficial." A complete and unexpurgated edition of many of the ditties that charmed tbe heroic he-roic ear might procure for the book a phenomenal sale, but even that anemic postwar Mrs. Grundy whom our "Bright Young Things" believe they have consigned to her deathbed death-bed would never permit the publication. publica-tion. And It Is impossible to sing In asterisks. London Post |