num!

O the dread, the contrite kneeling
When the Lord, in Judgment dealing,
Comes each hidden thing revealing!

When the trumpet's awful tone
Through the realms sepulchral blown,
Summons all before the Throne!

The solemn strength and vibration of these tremendous trilineals suffers
no general injury by the variant readings--and there are a good many. As
a sample, the first stanza was changed by some canonical redactor to get
rid of the heathen word Sybilla, and the second line was made the
third:

Dies Irae, dies illa
Crucis expandens vexilla,
Solvet saeclum in favilla.

Day of wrath! that day foretold,
With the cross-flag wide unrolled,
Shall the world in fire enfold!

In some readings the original "in favilla" is changed to "_cum_
favilla," "_with_ ashes" instead of "in ashes"; and "Teste Petro" is
substituted for "Teste David."

_THE TUNE._

The varieties of music set to the "Hymn of Judgment" in the different
sections and languages of Christendom during seven hundred years are
probably as numerous as the pictures of the Holy Family in Christian
art. It is enough to say that one of the best at hand, or, at least,
accessible, is the solemn minor melody of Dr. Dykes in William Henry
Monk's _Hymns Ancient and Modern_. It was composed about the middle of
the last century. Both the _Evangelical_ and _Methodist Hymnals_ have
Dean Stanley's translation of the hymn, the former with thirteen stanzas
(six-line) to a D minor of John Stainer, and the latter to a C major of
Timothy Matthews. The _Plymouth Hymnal_ has seventeen of the trilineal
stanzas, by an unknown translator, to Ferdinand Hiller's tune in F
minor, besides one verse to another F minor--hymn and tune both
nameless.

All the composers above named are musicians of fame. John Stainer,
organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, was a Doctor of Music and Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor, and celebrated for his works in sacred music, to
which he mainly devoted his time. He was born June 6, 1840. He died
March 31, 1901.

Rev. Timothy Richard Matthews, born at Colmworth, Eng., Nov. 20, 1826,
is a clergyman of the Church of England, incumbent of a Lancaster charge
to which he was appointed by Queen Alexandra.

Ferdinand Hiller, born 1811 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, of Hebrew
parentage, was one of Germany's most eminent musicians. For many years
he was Chapel Master at Cologne, and organized the Cologn