Judging from an experiment of my own, I think that these salutary effects would be heightened to a thrilling degree by music. And from the practice of the highest civil and ecclesiastical authorities, I presume that the introduction of music into the burial office is not inconsistent with the rubric. At a burial already alluded to, I acceded to a special request by allowing the introduction of some organ-music; and, having no rubrical directions on the point, I selected two parts of the service as those in which music seemed to me to be most admissible, and most likely to prove impressive. After the officiating minister has preceded the corpse from the entrance of the church and read the introductory sentences, there is an interval, during which he ascends the desk, the mourners take their places in the pews assigned to them, and the corpse is deposited in the body of the church; and there is a still longer interval, during which the melancholy procession leaves the church for the burial ground. I found that both these intervals, which are unavoidably disturbed by somewhat bustling and noisy arrangements, were most usefully and effectively filled up by the introduction of music. The subjoined scheme of the music performed at royal burials will prove that I was not mistaken in supposing music consistent with the rubric, nor much so in selecting those parts of the service, at which I prescribed its introduction. It will also serve to show to what an extent music might be made to give effect and attractiveness to a national burial of the dead. Parts of the Service. Musical Composer. “I am the resurrection,” &c. Sung Croft. “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” &c. Ditto Croft. “We brought nothing into this world,” &c. Ditto Croft. The Psalms are chanted Chant in G minor Purcell. After the lesson, and before the removal of the corpse from its station in the choir, an anthem is introduced _ad libitum_. “Man that is born of a woman,” &c. Sung Croft. “In the midst of life,” &c. Ditto Croft. “Yet, O Lord God, most holy,” &c. Ditto Croft. “Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets,” &c. Ditto Purcell. “I heard a voice from heaven,” &c. Ditto Croft. Immediately before the Collect, “O merciful God,” or sometimes, though very seldom, before “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,” an anthem is introduced _ad libitum_. At the close of the service, while the mourners are moving off, the Dead March in Saul is played on the organ. The anthems usually selected are two of the following:—