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 356 OUR HYMNS :

contains 124 selections of psalms and 212 hymns, with doxologies. This hymn is said to have been written as early as 1826.

Bishop Onderdonk is the author of several hymns. Before his consecration he was rector of St. Ann s Church, Brooklyn, New York. He was consecrated bishop, at Philadelphia, on the 25th October, 1827, and was at first assistant bishop to Bishop White, in Pennsylvania, so long as that prelate survived. A remonstrance against the appointment of Bishop Ouderdonk, in 1827, was pre sented by some clergy and other persons, chiefly on the ground that the nomination of another minister had been improperly passed over ; but the remonstrance was not regarded. An account of the whole matter is in the British Museum. Bishop Onderdonk is the author of &quot; Episcopacy Examined and Re-ex amined,&quot; 1835, and of some published sermons.

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS.

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THIS accomplished poetess was born at Liverpool, where her father, whose name was Browne, was engaged in mercantile pur suits. During her childhood, the family removed to the neigh bourhood of Abergele, in North Wales. Asa child, Miss Browne was encouraged to exercise her poetical talent by her mother, who was of Venetian descent, her father having been the commercial representative of Venice, at Liverpool. Mrs. Browne was a woman of taste and education, and the young poetess having such encouragement, published her first volume of poems as early as 1808.

In 1812, Miss Browne became the wife of Captain Hemans, and in the same year she published her second volume, &quot;The Domestic Affections.&quot; Some years after, Captain Hemans, whose health hid suffered in his military campaigns, went to reside in Italy, to have the advantage of its milder climate, leaving Mrs. Hemnns, with her five sons, in North Wales, where she lived with W mother in the neighbourhood of St. Asaph.

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