Some people will learn with astonishment that the first edition of Dr Isaac Watts's ' Hymns and Spiritual Songs,' 1707, was soM on December 5 for £l4O. This is a tribute to the genius of one of the best hymn-writers in the English language. With what was sometimes a child-like simplicity Dr Watts occasionally combined a majesty which is seldom met witih in hymnwriters. He has left his mark on the fenerations which succeeded him, not a very powerful one, perhaps, but one that is strangely touched with sentiment and the freshness of childhood—' Pall Mall.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11674, 5 February 1902, Page 8
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95Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 11674, 5 February 1902, Page 8
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