A NEW SCHOOL HYMNAL.t MR. E. M. PALSER is to
be congratulated upon the new hymn- book for schools which he has brought out. The first thought of most men as they turn over.a new collection of hymns is to wonder which of their own favourites is left out. The present writer took up Mr. raiser's anthology in this almost inevit- able frame of mind, and found, among a good selection of those time-honoured hymns which may almost be said to be part of an Englishman's religion, many less:known poems of striking beauty and piety well adapted for singing. We would call the reader's attention to more than one hymn by Francis Turner Palgrave, to Rudyard Kipling's delightful " Children's Song" taken from Puck of Pock's Hill, to Banyan's forgotten "He who. would valiant be," to a beautiful hymn by John Huntley Slake, and another by the Dean of Norwich. Last, but not. least, we would mention a few verses entitled " The City of Light" by Dr..Adler. But we must not give an impression that what we, may-call the unusual hymns to be found. in the volume are alt, modern. George Herbert, Herrick, and Vaughan are here alio to delight. the worshipper, who will.. think a, dull sermon is over too soon it he should .he so lucky as to find A New School Hymnal in the pew. The two greatest dangers to be avoided in a school hymn- hook are, in the .cquipiler,s. Mind, "puerility and unreality?' Into neither of theee.dangers does he ever fall. The book
isalarost as will suited t.o, grown men and women as to . „
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schoolboys. The happy thought has occurred to him to mention after the mune of each hymn-writer the school at which he Was educated—.a piece of information sure to inlerfilt the public for whom the hook it primarily designed.
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