2 MAY 1863, Page 22

Magdalena. By Peter the Venerable, A.D. 1092. Translated by the

Rev. Alexander Ross. Music by C. G. Hamilton. (Oetzmann and Co.)—With a laudable desire to adapt some of the beautiful Latin Hymns of the middle ages to the exigencies of our modern Church services, the Rev... Ross has commenced a series of translations with an elegant and well adapted version of Pone luctum Magdalena." Mr. Hamilton's music, though scarcely, perhaps, in perfect accordance with the character of the words, is carefully and artistically com- posed.