SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hang not been reserved for review in other forma,] An Easter Anthology. Collected, arranged, and edited by William Knight. (Sidgwiok and Jackson. 2s. 6d. not.)—Pro- fessor Knight explains that he has not limited his choice to poems which are directly concerned with Easter. Other events from the Transfiguration to the Ascension are included. Here, we think, he has done well; he is right also in editing his selec- tions; a weak stanza—and devotional poetry is especially subject to an occasional weakness—is better left out. The purism which would retain is out of place where the object is edification. The order followed is chronological. A writer, lately noticed in these columns as enthusiastic in his praise of eighteenth-century hymns, should observe that on this subject, at least, they are very barely represented, only, that is, by Edward Perronet's "All hail the power of Jesu's Name 1" and Charles Wesley's "Christ the Lord is risen to-day." (Wesley's date should be 1707-1788, not 1739-1762, as it is printed here).
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