5 JANUARY 1895, Page 35

Chapters on Church Music. By the Rev. R. B. Daniel.

(Elliot Stock.)—There is, of course, much that is technical and inappro priate to these columns in Mr. Daniel's book. He aims, however, at promoting edification, a thing which musicians are sometimes a little disposed to neglect. He deals, we see, with a question that has long divided opinion in England,—the fitness, or unfit- ness, of Gregorian music for Anglican worship. His opinion is distinctly adverse. He denies, indeed, that Gregorian music would be recognisable by its author (if we can so speak of hymns). To make it even possible for modern use, it has been positively transformed. We get in consequence, thinks Mr. Daniel, neither antiquity nor venerableness.