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The verion of Dr. W. J. Irons may be regarded as the accepted verion of the preent day in Great Britain, and is the one elected by the Hymnal Noted. It is in the double rhyme and meaure of the original, and parts of it bear a triking reemblance to the American verion of General Dix. But a much more curious coincidence in conception, with an abolute identity of language in many parts, exits in the unpublihed verion of an accomplihed tranlator (Mr. A. Périès, of Philadelphia), wherein everal tanzas differ but little from thoe of General Dix. The eleventh tands as follows:

It is a notable fact in the hitory of the, that the bet Englih tranlations which we poes are not the work of our