Hymns (classic Reprint)

Argumento de Hymns (classic Reprint)

The present collection of Hymns was first published in 1848, at Derby, and sold largely both in England and Ireland. It consisted then of a very few Hymns. It appeared again in London in 1849, very much enlarged, and under the title of Jesus and Mary. The thousand Oopies were sold; and in 1852 a fresh edition, still further enlarged, containing sixty-six hymns, was published. The edition consisted of ten thousand copies. This was followed in 1854 by another edition, called The Oratory Hymn Book, and containing seventy-seven Hymns. This omitted some of the previous Hymns, and gave only select verses of others; but it also contained many which were altogether new. Moreover, at the request of a publisher, a penny Hymn Book, a selection from the others, was pub lished, and sold largely, under the title of Hymns for the People. Since then leave has been given to the compilers of about a score of Hymn Books to reprint several of these Hymns in their collections.

Thus at the present time there is no single book which con tains all the Hymns. Moreover, the different compilers of other Hymn Books have themselves, often with permission, sometimes without, altered the language or metre or choruses of the Hymns, either to suit their own taste, or to accommodate them to particular tunes. In one instance the doctrine has been changed, and the Author is made to express an opinion with which he is quite out of sympathy. In many cases the literary or metrical changes have not been such as met the Author's own judgment and taste. Nevertheless Hymns are purely practical things, and he was only too glad that his com positions should be of any service, and he has in no one instance refused either to Catholics or Protestants the free use of them: only in the case Of Protestants he has made it arule to stipulate, wherever an Opportunity has been given him, that, while omissions might be made, no direct alterations should be attempted. Hence he wishes to say that he is not responsible for any of the Hymns in any other form, literary or doctrinal, than that in which they appear in this Edition.

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