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the correct taste ^ of Mr Webbe has not prevented his publication of a barbarous mutilation of the beautiful air of " With verdure clad . " In his Selection , Mr , Major Las given a proof of tjhe most correct taste . Among the writers of standard excellence , to whose works he has had recourse , are Croft , Clarke , Ravenscroft , Howard , Worgan , Nares and Wainwright . Six of the tunes are composed by Mr . Major , and six have been written by his friends , and it will be no small recommendation
of the work that among this number are the names of Wesley , * Novello and Clifton . To mention the com * positions of these men is to praise them . Among those published anonymously , there is one in which we trace ( unless we are much deceired )
the hand of a veteran whose elegant and touching melodies have delighted us for more than thirty years . It was like an unexpected encounter with an old friend , when we first
played through " Durham . " The arrangement of the selected tunes is , for the most part , new . Some inconvenience may be found from this by the possessors of former Collections , but it must be allowed that in most
instances Mr . Major has considerably improved them . Indeed his harmo-* There is a fact connected with this name , so disgraceful to those who enjoy the wealth and patronage which attaches to our cathedrals , that it deserves to he mentioned . Not very long since Mr .
Wesley issued proposals for publishing a Morning and Evening Church Service , a work exclusively adapted for cathedral worship , and to which his great reputation as a Church composer ought to have ensured the universal and eager patronage of every dean and chapter in the
kingdom . The name of Samuel Wesley was a sure guarantee of its excellence . We hazard nothing by the assertion that 110 man living could have done it so well , ^ nd time was when the Church readily Patronized the works of those who
laboured to enrich her music . But the ^ athedral divines of the present day are vviser in their generation . They have "titter uses for their money than foster-Irig genius or adding to their musical "fore * . Of all the Cathedrals , Collegiate t and
^ 'uirehesi nml rniiao-nc- ^ . ^ ^ ,. ^^ ^ ( ^ ti ,,, * ^ f ^ mrcnes Colleges , one alone that of looter ) is recorded in the list of sub-^¦ ibc rs to Mr . Wesley ' s service ! V . xxi . a v
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nies are most judiciously constructed . There is no straining after new or extraneous modulations merely because they are new , nor are the inner parts at all difficult to sing . On the contrary , they are singularly melodious , while their structure marks the
sound musician . We scarcely need repeat our recommendation of this work , or add that its adoption in the choirs of our churches , will materially tend to improve their musical taste .
Art . VI . —The Fears of Dying annihilated by the Hope of Heaven * A Dialogue on Deatkm With a Vision of Future Bliss . By John Mason , A . M ., Author of
Selfknowledge \ SfC Never before published . IVith Memoirs of the Author , and Illustrations of the Happiness of Heaven . By John Evans , LL . D . 12 rno . pp . 170 . C . S . Arnold . 1826 . 5 * .
riTlHE " Dialogue" appears to have JL been 4 € drawn up for the use of Mrs . Mason , a lady of good sense and piety , who , like many other excellent Christians , had been held by the fear of death in bondage" and , together
with the other contents of the volume , enumerated in the title-page , may be commended to the closet-reading- of any that may be depressed or agitated by the same fear . Dr . Evans has here brought together a number of excellent writers of all
denominations , who have contributed the offerings of reason , imagination and eloquence , to enable the timorous Christian to meet the common and last Enemy , and to soar by faith and hope into the blissful regions of immortality . May the pious labour answer the wishes of the compiler !
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Art . VII . — The Trinity no Scripture Doctrine , A Letter to the Clergyman resident near the Town of Mahhtoney in whose Opinion the Unitarian Tract lately circulated there , is calculated to Undermine
the [ Trinitarian ] Faith of IVea Christians , being a Defence of that Tract from his Animndrersions * By B . Mardon , M . A . 12 ujo . pp . 36 . Hunter . 1826 . R . MARDON some time ago Mpublished a tract of four pages ,
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Review . —The Trinity no Scripture Doctrine . 621
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 621, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/49/
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