rns and
Westlake, who made merry over the occasional simplicity, not to say
meagreness of the harmonies. A quick movement, too, from a Beethoven
Rasoumousky quartet, is rather awkward, albeit taken slow, for No. 74,
"Death," and Leporello's song for Nos. 22 and 23, is possibly not over
suitable, however intrinsically appropriate, looking to the
associations it might arouse, not so much, however, among the poor,
who cannot afford to patronize opera, as among the rich. "Just look at
the harmony," says one of No. 51; and of the famous No. 61, "there is
a strange want of unity, the first part has no second harmony." A
noble lord, too, disapproved of No. 51, the notes being, said he, all
over the key-board, but such are the strains of some of the best music
in the world, and the notice to this anonymous collection is almost an
answer to particular criticism, as Burns felt at once, _i.e._:
"Neither the following tunes themselves, nor the hymns to which they
belong, have been brought together on any one principle of selection,
or to fulfil any ideal of what such composition ought to be. Many of
them have grown into use insensibly, without any one being directly
responsible for them; the rest have been adapted as the most
appropriate, under circumstances, to complete the set, and to answer
the needs of our people."[55]

[Footnote 55: An examination of the book of words published by
Pickering, and which originally numbered eighty-two hymns, since
increased from time to time up to one hundred and forty-nine (1888),
shows forty-one hymns (original or translated) by Father Caswall, Nos.
5, 8-11, 13, 15-17, 19, 21-28, 33-36, 40, 42, 43, 47, 48, 62, 64, 79,
80, 116, 118, 121, 134, 143-145, 147, 148, 149; thirty by Father
Faber, 1, 3, 4, 12, 14, 29, 30, 37, 44, 45, 52, 53, 55, 57, 61, 65,
73, 85, 115, 119, 120, 124, 125, 127-129, 133, 137, 138, 141; thirteen
by Father Newman, 31, 32, 38, 41, 49, 50, 51, 54, 63, 67, 76, 78, 81;
two by Father Stanfield, 123, 126; one by Father Bittleston, 39 (the
familiar "Daily, daily," from St. Anselm, _Sancti Anselmi Mariale_, p.
15, _Omni die_, &c., the second part, No. 40, by Father Caswall); one
by Father Christie, S.J., 122 ("To Jesus' Heart all burning"); one by
Father Vaughan, C.SS.R., 130 ("God of mercy and compassion"); one by
Bishop Chadwick, 131 ("Jesus, my God, behold at length the time"); one
by Dr. Lingard, 20 ("Hail, Queen of Heaven"). Bishop Heber also
contributes, but the remaining N