30 JANUARY 1892, Page 31

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—For perfect accuracy, the letter of my friend, the Rev. J. H. Thom, in the Spectator of January 23rd, needs one small -correction. My collection of " Hymns for the Christian Church and Home" first appeared in 1840, not in 1851. It had been preceded, in 1831, by a smaller " Collection of Hymns for Christian Worship," edited anonymously for the Presbyterian congregation then assembling in Eustace Street Meeting-House, Dublin; as it was followed, in 1874, by the larger " Hymns of Praise and Prayer."—I am, Sir, &c., JANES MARTINEAU.