the Puritans, by whom they were practised at their chapels in the
Protectorate of Cromwell, but were more particularly set and sung in
the reign of Elizabeth. Psalms, about this time, were sung at City
and Lord Mayors' feasts, and turtle-eaters delighted to honour
Psalm-singers. Soldiers used them as stimulants to exertion on their
march, and even on parade; and there was scarcely a regiment but could
boast of its Marot. About this time, too, it was customary for the
inhabitants of houses which had windows facing the street, to regale
the passenger with the "holy songs" of Sternhold.

E.J.H.

[By way of an appropriate pendent to our Correspondent's
paper, we quote the following excellent passage on Psalmody,
by the Rev. W.S. Gilly, in his _Memoir of Felix Neff_.]

The effect produced by the words, or by the music, or by the
combination of the two, is such, that the cultivation of psalmody has
ever been earnestly recommended by those who are anxious to excite
true piety. Tradition, history, revelation, and experience, bear
witness to the truth, that there is nothing to which the natural
feelings of man respond more readily. Every nation, whose literary
remains have come down to us, appears to have consecrated the first
efforts of its muse to religion, or rather all the first compositions
in verse seem to have grown out of devotional effusions. We know that
the book of Job, and others, the most ancient of the Old Testament,
contain rhythmical addresses to the Supreme Being. Many of the psalms
were composed centuries before the time of king David, and it is not
extravagant to imagine, that some of them may have been sung even to
Jubal's lyre, and were handed down from patriarch to patriarch by oral