The Congregational Psalmist. Compressed Score Edition. Edited by the Rev.
Henry Allen and Henry John Gauntlett, Mus. Dec. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—The days of Tate and Brady are numbered.
Long measure, short measure, and common measure no longer constitute the only difference between the versos sung before the Litany, after the Litany, and during the Ritualistic change of vestments that precedes the sermon. We remember some time ago the publication of a tract with the title, "Do you sing in Church ?" to which some scoffer gave for an answer, "No, we howl." But since then it has been found that the best way of making people sing in Church is not by asking them questions on the title-pages of tracts, but by giving them words and music. The Congregational Psalmist is a sufficient sign of the change which has been effected. This first selection, containing tunes and chorale; has a collection of almost 400, many of them extremely good. And we are hardly less impressed by the number than by the catholicity of the selection.
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