22 DECEMBER 1888, Page 17

THE OXFORD HYMNOLOGY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—It might be of interest to some of your readers to know that the University of Orford not long ago appointed a small committee (of which the late Professor Henry Smith was a member) to make a selection of hymns for use at St. Mary's, the University Church. The hymns are varied in character, and there are a considerable number of them. The committee have, I think, been fairly successful in excluding from this collection the nonsense and the vulgarity which the average English congregation is so often condemned to sing.—I am,