“A new edition of Bishop Mant’s ‘Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary’ forms a handsome little volume, and it is interesting to compare some of these translations with the more modern ones of our own day. While we have no hesitation in awarding the palm to the latter, the former are an evidence of the earliest germs of that yearning of the devout mind for something better than Tate and Brady, and which know so richly supplied.”—Church Times.
“This valuable manual will be of great assistance to all compilers of Hymn-Books. The translations are graceful, clear, and forcible, and the original hymns deserve the highest praise. Bishop Mant has caught the very spirit of true psalmody, his metre flows musically, and there is a tuneful ring in his verses which especially adapts them for congregational singing.”—Rock.
YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER: A Poem in Twelve Books. By E. H. Bickersteth, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.
“The most simple, the richest, and the most perfect sacred poem which recent days have produced.”—Morning Advertiser.
“A poem worth reading, worthy of attentive study; full of noble thoughts, beautiful diction, and high imagination.”—Standard.
“Mr. Bickersteth writes like a man who cultivates at once reverence and earnestness of thought.”—Guardian.
“In these light miscellany days there is a spiritual refreshment in the spectacle of man girding up the loins of his mind to the task of producing a genuine epic. And it is true poetry. There is a definiteness, a crispness about it, which in these moist, viewy, hazy days [♦]is no less invigorating than novel.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.
[♦] “in” replaced with “is”
THE TWO BROTHERS, and other Poems. By Edward Henry Bickersteth, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, Author of “Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever.” Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.
A HANDY BOOK OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS ACT, 1871. With the Amendment Act, 1872. With Remarks on the Qualification and Practice of Diocesan Surveyors. By Edward G. Bruton, F.R.I.B.A., and Diocesan Surveyor, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.