Additional Hymns, with Tunes. (Novello and Co.) — This book contains a
hundred and seventy-four hymns "for use with any other Church Hymnal," their numbering beginning with 801. Some are given which were for no obvious reason omitted from "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (as, e.g., Heber's "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning" ) ; others have been supplied for special needs which have become recently more prominent ; about a sixth of the whole have been written expressly for the book. Nearly all of these are very poor, more than half being con- tributed by one writer whose abilities seem not to lie in the direction of hymn-writing. Mr. A. C. Benson's hymn for missions, "Lord, dost Thou look from heaven and see ?" is fine ; and 892, "Loving Father, throned in glory," though not of much literary merit, has something of the true ring of a hymn.
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