performance of Shakespeare's _As You Like It_. Four years before this, in 1736, he had married Cecilia, the eldest daughter of Charles Young, organist of All Hallows Barking. She was considered the finest English singer of the day and was frequently engaged by Handel in the performance of his music. In 1742 Arne went with his wife to Dublin, where he remained two years and produced his oratorio _Abel_, containing the beautiful melody known as the Hymn of Eve, the operas _Britannia, Eliza_ and _Comus_, and where he also gave a number of successful concerts. On his return to London he was engaged as leader of the band at Drury Lane theatre (1744), and as composer at Vauxhall (1745). In this latter year he composed his successful pastoral dialogue, _Colin and Phoebe_, and in 1746 the song, "Where the bee sucks." In 1759 he received the degree of doctor of music from Oxford. In 1760 he transferred his services to Covent Garden theatre, where on the 28th of November he produced his _Thomas and Sally_. Here, too, on the 2nd of February 1762 he produced his _Artaxerxes_, an opera in the Italian style with recitative instead of spoken dialogue, the popularity of which is attested by the fact that it continued to be performed at intervals for upwards of eighty years. The libretto, by Arne himself, was a very poor translation of Metastasio's _Artaserse_. In 1762 also was produced the ballad-opera _Love in a Cottage_. His oratorio _Judith_, of which the first performance was on the 27th of February 1761 at Drury Lane, was revived at the chapel of the Lock hospital, Pimlico, on the 29th of February 1764, in which year was also performed his setting of Metastasio's _Olimpiade_ in the original language at the King's theatre in the Haymarket. At a later performance of _Judith_ at Covent Garden theatre on the 26th of February 1773 Arne for the first time introduced female voices into oratorio choruses. In 1769 he wrote the musical parts for Garrick's ode for the Shakespeare jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon, and in 1770 he gave a mutilated version of Purcell's _King Arthur_. One of his last dramatic works was the music to Mason's _Caractacus_, published in 1775. Though inferior to Purcell in intensity of feeling, Arne has not been surpassed as a composer of graceful and attractive melody. There is true genius in such airs as "Rule, Britannia!" and "Where the bee sucks," which still retain their original freshness and popularity. As a writer of glees he does not take such high rank, though he deserves notice as the leader in the revival of that peculiarly English form of composition. He was author as well as composer of _The Guardian outwitted_, _The Rose_, _The Contest of Beauty and Virtue_, and _Phoebe at Court_. Dr Arne died on the 5th of March 1778, and was buried at St Paul's, Covent Garden. See also the article in _Grove's Dictionary_ (new ed.); and two interesting papers in the _Musical Times_, November and December 1901.