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    their use : and Mr . Good , to whose notes we shall attend hereafter , is not less respectable and meritorious for disclaiming certain lofty pretensions which some persons , we imagine , may be rash enough to urge in his behalf .

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    profits that may arise from their sale to the benevolent purposes of charity we trust that it is unnecessary for us to say any thing more in order to convince our readers that the above publication is in every point of view highly deserving their patronage and encouragement .

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    Art . IIL—Twelve Psalm and Hymn Tunes , in four Parts , adapted for Public and Private Worship ; composed and arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte , and dedicated to his

    Friend , the Rev . Mr . Aspland ; by Joseph Major . London ; published for the benefit of the Charity Schools of the New Gravel-Pit Meeting , Hackney : by Preston , 97 , Strand . Price 4 s .

    WE have no hesitation in recommending this publication as containing one of the most pleasing collection of psaJm and hymn tunes we have ever seen . The melodies are characterized by a remarkable simplicity and sweetness ,

    and the harmonies by which they are accompanied are such as will satisfy the most accomplished musician , without being too difficult or abstruse for the less scientific congregations , by whom they are expected to be performed .

    In the distribution of the intervals in the separate parts , Mr . Major has also given convincing proofe of his skill in counterpoint . Of the different pieces we more particularly admire those entitled " Eucharist , " " Cypress , " " Racovia / ' and " Merrick . "

    The tune called " Eucharist , " is a complete specimen of that union of sweetness and simplicity , which we have already noticed as Mr . Major ' s peculiar style of composition . The on * entitled " Cypress" is distinguished by its appropriate solemnity and

    pathos , and the other two by their refined harmonies and elegance of melody . The tune adapted to Cowper ' s Hymn on " Providence" is also excellent , though quite in a different style from those we have already enumerated .

    The words ( which are selected from Cowper , Merrick , Dr . Watts , &c . ) are also much superior to what are generally to be found in collections of this nature . When to the above

    recommendations , we add , that Mr . Major has not published these compositions for his own emolument , but has given the

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    118 Review . —Major ' s Twelve Tunes , —Smith ' s Sermon at Glasgon

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    Art . IV . —The Incompatibility of the Doctrine of the Trinity with tJiat of the Divine Unity . A Sermon , preached on Sunday , May 1 st , 1814 , in Union Chapel , Glasgow , before

    the Second Annual Meeting of the Association of the Unitarians of Scotland . By T . Southwood Smith , Minister of the Unitarian Chapel , ( St . Andrews ) in Carrufoer ' s Close , Edinburgh . Second Edition . 12 mo . pp . 36 * Glasgow , printed ; D . Eaton , London *

    11 HIS Sermon is evideutly the fruit Jl of much hard thinking . The preacher adopts the Unitarian text , 1 Cor . viii . 6—To us there is but One God , the Father , and after a suitable and candid introduction , proceeds to shew , 1 . That those who believe

    in the Doctrine of the Trinity really believe in three Gods , 2 . That the clearness of the evidence of the doctrine of the Trinity ought to be proportioned to its antecedent probability , 3 . That no such evidence in favour of this doctrine but the reverse

    of it is found in the scriptures , and 4 . That the evidence which at first sight seems to favour it either has no relation to it , or is insufficient of itself to establish it . This sermon like the sermon by Mr . Yates , and the Address by this same author , [ See Vol . ix . p . 706 ] is wellsuijted to the sober , thinking , patient turn of the Scottish people . We know not whether the former edition of this sermon was printed

    like this , in duodecimo , and not like the Sermon and Address [ ix . 706 ] in octavo y ' but we must remark that it is very desirable that all discourses before the same annual associations

    should be printed in the same : and the preferable size , on account oi cheapness and portableness , and ( we may now say ) Unitarian practice is duodeoimo . The annual sermons before the Western Unitarian Society , twenty in number , being u niformly printed , form two con siderable volumen .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/54/