FAMOUS HYMN
MANUSCRIPT SOLD FOR £24 I It would bo difficult to imagine a greater diversity of style and subject j than that existing between the hymn j " Onward Christian Soldiers " and tho ; satires of Juvenal. Yet at Sotheby's recently, a manuscript of the first by tho late Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould apj pcared with 81 pages by Dean Swift of I his translation of tho sixth and tenth I satires by the slashing Roman critic. I Mr. Baring-Gould wrote tho famous hymn in 1865 for some Sunday-school children who had to march several miles on their annual " treat." Tho copy, which was sold for only £24, was presented in 1921 to his friend, Miss i Evelyn Healey, but it is not certain j whether it is tho first original draft. Mr. Gfibriel Wells, of New York, had to give a much higher price—£3so—for ' tho Swift manuscript.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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146FAMOUS HYMN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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