The Established Church Hymnal Committee have lately sanctioned a very interesting collection of 200 pieces.

The compilation has been made with liberality of feeling as well as with good taste.

There are several of Neale's translations from mediaeval hymns, several from John Keble, and the whole concludes with the Te Deum taken literally from the Prayer-Book.
This mention of Scottish Psalmody and Scottish Hymnology, whether for private or for public worship, naturally brings us to a very important division of our subject; I mean the general question of reminiscences of Scottish religious feelings and observances; and first in regard to Scottish clergy.
My esteemed friend, Lord Neaves, who, it is well known, combines with his great legal knowledge and high literary acquirements a keen sense of the humorous, has sometimes pleasantly complained of my drawing so many of my specimens of Scottish humour from sayings and doings of Scottish ministers.

They were a shrewd and observant race.

They lived amongst their own people from year to year, and understood the Scottish type of character.