The "Song" and "A.D.

MDCXX." (a memoir of the notorious galleon of the Pilgrims) are in a lighter vein.

The tonal plangency, the epic quality, of these studies is extraordinary,--exposing a tendency toward an orchestral fulness and breadth of style that will offer a more pertinent theme for comment in a consideration of the sonatas.

Their littleness is wholly a quantitative matter; their spiritual and imaginative substance is not only of rare quality, but of striking amplitude.
We come now to the final volumes in the series of what one may as well call pianistic "nature-studies": the "Fireside Tales" (op.

61) and "New England Idyls" (op.