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 THEIR AUTHOES AND ORIGIN. 287

&quot;That Thou, Lord, art ever nigh.&quot; No. 110.

This is Miss Auber s version of Psalm Ixxv., given in her &quot;Spirit of the Psalms,&quot; 1829. The second verse is altered from the original, which reads lines 2 and 3

&quot; To Thee the monarch owes his crown, The conqueror his wreath.&quot;

The word &quot; beneath &quot; being given in the last line of the stanza instead of &quot; below.&quot; The other alterations are unimportant. This is the only piece by this authoress in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book.&quot; It will be acknowledged to be an admirable psalm, presenting, with well-maintained dignity and simplicity, the grandeur and sublimity of the original by Asaph.

��EICHAKD MANT, D.D.

177G 1848.

THIS poet-bishop was born on the 12th February, 1776, at South ampton, where his father, of the same name, was master of the Grammar School. He studied at Winchester School, and after wards at Trinity College, Oxford. He graduated at Oxford, B.A. in 1797, and M.A. in 1801. He received the Chancellor s prize for an English essay in 1799, and was a fellow of Oriel and a college tutor.

In 1802 he commenced his life-work as a curate with his father, at Southampton. Afterwards he entered upon the curacy of Buriton, near Petersfield, Hants, .where he took pupils and wrote several works. There he married, in 1804, Miss Elizabeth Woods, and a son and daughter were born to him. From Buriton he removed to Crawley, and thence, in 1809, he went to assist his father again at Southampton. In 1810 he was presented to the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex. In the following year he preached the Bampton Lecture. He was appointed domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1813, and in 1816 became rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. He also received

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