62), which, together with the songs of op.
60, constitute the last of his published works (they were all issued in 1902).

In these last piano pieces there is a new quality, an unaccustomed accent.

One notes it on the first page of the opening number of the "Fireside Tales," "An Old Love Story," where the voice of the composer seems to have taken on an unfamiliar _timbre_.

There is here a turn of phrase, a quality of sentiment, which are notably fresh and strange.

There is in this, and in "By Smouldering Embers," a graver tenderness, a more pervasive sobriety, than he had revealed before.