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 THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 377

JOSEPH ANSTICE, M.A. 18081836.

&quot; In all things like Thy brethen Thou.&quot; No. 354-

THIS is No. 21 in &quot;Hymns by the Rev. Joseph Anstice, M.A. London, 1836&quot; a selection containing fifty-four hymns, published by his widow after his death, and privately printed. In the original it begins thus

&quot; Lord, Thou in all things like wert made To us, yet free from sin-&quot;

and there are two more verses.

&quot; Lord, how happy should we be.&quot; No. 593.

This is hymn 44 in Mr. Anstice s collection, where two more verses are given. These beautiful spiritual hymns are erroneously attributed to Keble in the &quot; New Congregational.&quot; Probably the mistake arose from the fact that twenty-seven of Professor Anstice s hymns were, in 1841, printed in &quot; The Child s Christian Year,&quot; which was recommended by Keble, and sometimes supposed to be his, though in fact it was edited by Miss Yonge, of Winchester, and these hymns supposed to be by Keble had been in print as Professor Anstice s, in 1836. We are deeply indebted to the widow of Professor Anstice for the following interesting and affecting account of his brief but brilliant course: &quot;Professor Anstice was born in 1808. He was the second son of William Anstice, Esq., of Madeley Wood, Shropshire, but received all his early education at Enmore, near Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, of which village his uncle, the Rev. John Poole, formerly fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, was rector. Mr. Poole had great talent for teaching, and had obtained considerable local celebrity by the admirable way in which he had organized his village school. At that time he was unmarried, and his mother and several maiden sisters lived with him. In this parsonage Professor Anstice passed a very happy and profitable childhood. At thirteen years of age

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