PREFACE.
inserted by Messrs. Nisbet's kind permission; Dr. G. J. Elvey contributes three new Tunes; Dr. Stainer three; Professor Herbert Oakeley one; Mr. George Cooper, Organist of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, two; Dr. Gauntlett one( a second, No. 361, harmonized for them, being inserted by leave of Mr. Masters); Mr. Joseph Barnby three,( whose Tune to Hymn 336 is also inserted by the kind permission of the Rev. R. Brown- Borthwick from his Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book); and Mr. Arthur Henry Brown two, ( who also allows them to insert two other tunes already published). Their pages are also enriched with a new Tune by Dr. Hayne( to whom their thanks are due for the insertion of three other Tunes from the Merton Hymn Book); by Dr. Steggall( one of whose published Tunes is also inserted with the kind permission of Mr. Lamborn Cock, and another from Hymns for the Church of England with that of the Rev. T. Darling); by Mr. John Hullah, Mr. Walter Macfarren, Mr. Willing,( to whom also they are indebted for the harmony of the 2nd Tune to Hymn 345, printed by permission of Messrs. Cramer and Co.), Mr. Coward, Mr. Herbert Irons, Mr. F. W. Hogan of St. Columba's College, Mr. Heywood, Organist of St. Paul's, Balsall Heath, and Mr. W. H. Sangster, Organist of St. John's, Weybridge. They have also great pleasure in printing two hitherto unpublished Tunes from the MSS. of the late Mr. Vincent Novello; one of them his own, and the other by his friend William Horsley. Mr. E. J. Hopkins has kindly allowed them to insert one of his Tunes from the Temple Choral Service Book; Mr. Hewlett, Organist at Dalkeith, has permitted them to insert one of his Tunes, written some years ago for the St. Alban's Book; Mr. R. Dale one of his lately published in a collection of Hymn Tunes by" Two Oxford Graduates;" Mr. Walter Gilbert one; and Mr. R. Redhead two( with consent of Mr. Masters). Tunes by the late Bishop Turton and the late Dr. Rowden are taken by permission from the Collection of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge..