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Stabat Mater : Speciosa Full of
BEAUTY STOOD THE MOTHEK. By the late Rev.
J. M. NEALE.
" The companion sequence to the Stabat Mater dolorosa is now
presented to the reader, Stabat Mater speciosa ; this the hymn of the
Cradle, as the other of the Cross. ... I cannot but wonder that it
has never hitherto appeared in an English translation ; nor even, so
far as I know, been reprinted in this country." Preface.
Church and
"
Is not merely a good hymn, but a beautiful poem."
State Review.
11 We turn now to the great Translator s last effort in that arena
where his most famous prizes were won, an effort dating but a lew
weeks before he was himself translated from earthly speech to that
of Paradise. Not only has the hymn never before appeared in any
English version, but the very text is printed now for the first time in
this country. We shall not quote from it, because a verse or two of
it gives no satisfactory notion of the whole poem. Finis may be
written now at the close of his songs on earth, but rather in the
spirit and fashion of scholars of old, we would end them with the
words, l
Glory be to God, remembering that the song he is now
learning is stronger and sweeter than any he sang here, and that
disease and death can never hush it more." Church Times.
"
Stabat Mater Speciosa is a devotional and graceful composition.
Of the translation we need not speak ; it is as perfect as Dr. Neale s
works of the kind always are." Ecclesiastic.
*** The above were the last efforts of Dr. Neale on his
sick bed, and were only finished two or three days
before his decease.
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Hymns, appropriate
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EOOM, Original or Translated, by the late REV. J. M.
NEALE. With a Preface by the REV. Dr. LITTLEDALE.
"
Excellent of its kind, and the kind is a good one. It is no
small merit to offer a really correct version of Jerusalem, my
happy home after the mongrel varieties to be met with in ordinary
hymn-books." Church Times.
" A judicious selection of Dr. Neale s most appropriate hymns,
with a preface by Dr. Littledale, is printed in bold and clear type,