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Rh great poets. A recent verion, which o capable and accomplished a critic as Mr. Prime pronounces to be "in many repects the bet Englih verion hitherto produced, and peculiarly valuable for thoe who do not read the Latin, and who deire to gain ome idea of the power and beauty of this mot celebrated hymn of the Church," alo illutrates this remarkable fact. The author is Edward Sloon, Eq., of the bar of New York.

And in this connection it may be oberved, that even o accomplihed a mater in proe and vere as Macaulay has ucceeded no better in the difficult tak than is hown by his verion written for the London Chritian Oberver in 1826, beginning—