Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Vol. 40: Fourth Series, Volume V; January, March, May, 1846 Lest we should seem to be in the vein of fault-finding, we will sum up at once all we have to say of this kind, and turn to the pleasanter part of our duty. We are of opinion, then, that a greater share of attention might usefully have been given to the question of fitness for being sung; since many a beautiful devotional poem that delights in the closet, is wholly unavailable for the church. We have thought also, that there were more pieces than we could desire of a descriptive character, and of those that seem rather to preach than to worship. In the future copies, which we hope will be a great many, we would venture to suggest that a tabular index to the Psalms would be a con venient addition. Meanwhile, let us make haste to declare that there is no one of the books, whose titles are copied above, that we are ready to prefer to this. It contains about Sixty pieces, that were quite new to us, and many of them well worthy to shine anywhere. No other has pre sented Milton to us so nobly. Take for instance the 5lst and the glorious 29lst, that make the heart bound at them. The 238th also, the famous nativity, we have here in that altered form, but yet of truly Miltonic cast, for which we presume we are indebted to Dr. Peabody of Springfield. We should like to dwell longer in commendation, but are admonished that our space is becoming narrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.