THE Bl'RL IVES SONG BOOK, just published by Rallan-tine Books of New York, went on sale Nov. 9. Containing 115 American songs with piano accompaniments and guitar chords, it can be purchased for 50 cents in paper-back edition^ the larger, hard-bound edition, with about 30 more pages, and containing 73 illustrations in color, sella for $5. The comments by IveS are almost the best thing in the book, but the songs in the 1800-1850 section are outstanding, too. Isn’t the Albert Vague who made the piano arrangement* the same Albert (Marcuse) Hague who studied composition at the College of Music about the time I enrolled in Dr. Sidney Durst’s theory classes—about 1937? A man named Hague also wrote the incidental music to the New York production of Giradoux’s “Mad Woman of Chaillot,’’ incidentally. a