PREFACE TO THE EDITION WITH TUNES.

Rev. J. W. Blow, M.A., Mr. A. H. Brown, Messrs. Burns and Oates, Lady Victoria Evans- Freke, Mrs. Gauntlett, Mr. E. J. Hopkins, Mr. A. H. Mann, Mus. Bac., Messrs. Masters, Messrs. Metzler& Co., Messrs. Novello, Mr. C. H. Purday, Messrs. Richardson& Son, Dr. Arthur Sullivan, Mr. W. F. Trimnell, Dr. Waite, and the Family of the late Dr. S. S. Wesley, for permission to insert copyright tunes in their possession.

No labour has been spared in the endeavour to discover the authors and owners of tunes, and to obtain their permission to make use of them in the Collection. If the compilers have failed in any instance to ask permission where it should have been sought, they beg to apologise for the inadvertency

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