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    Meeting Messrs At . Exeter Casseli. Hall...

    the concern is held by the employe ' s . We congratulate Messrs . Cassell < fc Co . on the

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    Hymns Ancient and Modern . —The vast strides which have been made iii recent years

    in the art of printing are continually receiving fresh illustration , and we have accordingly almost ceased to be surprised at the triumphs

    won in this direction . We feel bound , howthat that ever , Messrs Mess to place rs . . William W on illiam record Clowes ( Jiowes the extraordinary & & oon Sonss . Limited ljimit fact ed .

    have in a single day turned out considerabl , y , more than one million ies of the

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    rooms of this well-known firm have been employed day and night upon the preparation

    of the various sizes of the new and complete edition of this widely used hymn-book .

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    4 The Publishers' Circular AftW Jf - ^ s , 188 9 I — — ¦ ' ' . « " ' ' ¦ ¦ - J

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    The Rev . Sir F . A . Gore Ousele y Bart . — , By the lamented death of Sir F . Gore Ouseley

    , Precentor of Hereford Cathedral , and Professor of Music at Oxford University , the

    nation has lost one of its moat gifted composers hi — ¦ — " ^— — — ¦ - — — . — — He - - ~~ " ^^— was — - —r- ~— - - ^— born - - ^ ¦ —• — ' — in — - - — — — London h ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ~ - ^ " ^^ ^ f ^ " h h on «^ p ^ ^|^^ August ^^ 1 ^* ^^ m ^ m ^ m ^ ^^ f ^^\ ^^^^ W ^ W ^ ^¦ ^ ^ 12 i ^ i ^^ ^ PB ^ V ,

    1825 , and died suddenly of heart disease , at Herefordon the Oth instant . His father

    Sir Gore , Ouseley , F . R . S ., was a well-known , Oriental -- - scholar -- t and w held - - n ~ at - _ - ¦ one - ^¦ ^ ¦ ¦ f time -i ¦¦ pi ¦ q the — — —— — —— , j — — — . — ^™ —^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ . ^ p ^ mr ^ B *^ ^^ T

    post of British Ambassador at St . Petersburg . From his earliest years the late Canon Sir

    Frederick Gore Ouseley displayed a decided talent for music ; indeed at the age of rr eight

    the precocious child , had alread , y composed CJ - ^ 2 an opera . He was educated at Oxfordwhere he

    took his \ B . A . degree in 1846 and the , M . A . in 1849 the year in which he was , ordained ¦ - ¦ - . In 1

    1850 four m he took ^^ later the that degree of Mus of . Mus — Doc — - - — — . . Bac - _ - — - _^ v ^ On ^ w , » ^ pv and the pi ** ^^^ yeara

    death of Sir H . R . Bishop , in 1855 , Sir

    Frederick was elected Professor of Music to I the University , ¦ In the same year he was

    appointed Precentor V of Hereford , and in ^^ 1886 " LVD ' _ a Canon Residentiary of that Cathedral . Sir" Frederick -W 7 * ^ ' t , /~ V 1 has 1 - 1 . 1 * l _ 1 <• 1

    . Ouseley published upwards of I seventy anthemsand a number of organ

    preludes and fugues , . He was himself a most accomp ^ b « p ^ ^^ ^^ - ^^ p ^ dfrdp * B ^ p lished ^«^ " ^^ ^ fc ^ p * ^ pr ^ fepp ^ organist " ^ p ^ - m ^ m hh ^ rv ^^ ^ ' ¦ » ^ and - ^ p- ^^ p—^— pi ph a * ^ life I - ^ p ^ -long - ^ ^ p ^ ¦ 4 ^»^ lp ^» ¦ en / U - mm

    and thusiast practice in anything of music relating . He is to perhaps the theory best

    Pol known y carp as ' the a , nd composer ' Hagar / of whilst the oratorios his treatises 'St .

    Fugue on * H 9 are armony known ' to and all . * students Counterpoint as standard and

    works . His book on * Musical Form and General Composition' is also a notable

    contribution - > *^» ~» to the ^ pb x literature ^ pk A — _ of . ^ p ^ the ^ ^ pV subject p ^ pI k ^ K . Sir Frederick — . Gore - Ouseley - ^^ g , - — both at Hereford - - ~ and PB P * ™^ ^ Pk Sf ^

    Oxford , and through tie press , has done much to raise the standard of musical education in

    much England -needed , as well reforms as . to He bring possessed about one many of tiie the mos most t valua valuable ble iijt libraries > ranes ot of books dooks relatin relating g to to \

    chief music treasure in the king was dom the , manuscri of whieh pt perhaps copyi of the the 6 Messiah * used by Handpl at the first per- j

    formance of that immortal work . Professor George S . Morris . —The death

    is University announced , U of . S . Professor A . He was Morris born , of in Michi 1 S 40 gan at

    mouth Norwich in , 1861 Termont . He , aft and erward graduated s studied at Dart hilo - - p

    his soph return y in to German America y and in 1868 Switzerland rendered , and impor on

    tant assistance to Professor , Schaff , in the translation of Ueberweg ' s 'History of Philosophy . '

    In 1880 he was appointed to the Chair of Ethics at Michigan , and for some years he also held

    a Lectureship in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore . Professor Morris was

    the ^ B author . ^ H , of several important & m — philosop ^ feV ^ ^ b hical p ^ h ^ ^^ p worksand though still comparatively a young

    man had ^ pb , p ^ established pte ^ pk ^ ^ m ^ pB for . ^ pk himself ^ ^ «¦ . ^ ph a great reputation as a profound , student of metaphysics .

    man who Rev died . Luxe a week Tyerman or two , M . A in . — London Mr . Tyer in ago

    , , eminent the sevent Wesleyan ieth year of minister his age , , but was no was t onl widely y an

    commun known far it beyond as the the historian borders of of that Methodism religious . y

    He was a man with a genuine love of books , and for thirty-five years had been a diligent

    vo coll lumes ector w of hich pamp serve hlets to , elucidate sermons , the tracts position , and

    and work , of the early Methodists . His chief contributions to literature were the c Life and

    Rector Times of of the Epwort Rev h . ' Samuel published Wesley in 1866 , M ; . this A .,

    was followed , four , years A , later , by a similar ' work on John Wesley . In 1873 Mr . Tyerman

    published his ' Oxford Methodists ' ; in 1876 , the a 'Li ' ¦ Life fe ¦ - ¦ ¦ of of George Fletcher mmm -r ¦ ¦ Whitefield of Madeley ' ; and 7 the in man rm 1882 of ,

    all ' — ' — ^ p ^ others — ™ ^^» who ^^ ™ —^^ - ^ was ^ p ^ - ^ pr ^| p ^ - ^ m - ^ re ^ r ^^^ garded ^ pp ^ ^^^ m ^^ — h ^ p ^ ^ pp v ^ a ^ by ^ . ^ p ^¦ pp ^ bpv ^ p * p ^ the wmw , ^¦ p founder ' p . PA p » p * ^^ p ^ ^ ^^^ " ^• r ^ pr ^ " » ^ — of Methodism * ' " * ' ' ^^ ¦ " » ^ - ^— ~~~ - ~^ r- ^ t ~~ m mm- p . ^ p . p ^ as ^ p ^^ rv the - ^ pp ^ m * m ~^ m * - m most *~ ^ p > mm ¦ >« ii r-mV ^ m < qualifi ' ^ , ^ # ^ ^ m*—r m ^ . ^ p ^ — —< ed ^ f p * ¦* to ^^ ^—r r succeed * mW pH I ' p ^ H " ^ p' ^

    himself . Mr . Tyerman himself possessed as a preacher and writer not a little of the

    enthusiasm which marked the men whose devoted labours he has commemorated in the

    works of which we have spoken . J

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1889, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041889/page/12/