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(To THE EDITOR. or THE "tisscrAros."1 SIR,—" C. L. D. "

is quite right. To object to the obvious improvements which have years ago been made in the great

hymn "0 God, our help " is pure pedantry. But he must not believe that Watts when he wrote

" Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green ' looked across Southampton Water to the Isle of Wight. That " land of pure delight" is not visible froth Southampton, and the green fields across the water are those of Marchwood, just outside the present bounds of the New Forest.—I