was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_, 1820, and was republished in Sewall’s New York Collection of the same year, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other collections. 2. _This child we dedicate to Thee_ (Christening) In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ the author’s name is not given and the piece is attributed to the _West Boston Collection_, 1823. Putnam, in _Singers and Songs_, etc., p. 73, gives four of its original stanzas, and says that it is a translation from the German, but the original has not been traced. 3. _We sing Thy mercy, God of love_, (Communion) Contributed to _Hymns of the Lord’s Supper_ and included in Sewall’s New York _Collection_. 4. _Who would sever freedom’s shrine?_ A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman was a strong advocate, written at the time of the Nullification agitation. Several stanzas from it, beginning as above, were included in _The Soldier’s Companion_, 1861. 5. _Yes, to the [that] last command_ (Communion) Like no. 1 and 3 included in _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_ and in Sewall’s _Collection_. All these hymns have long since passed out of use. Gilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the _Charleston Collection_ in 1854, under the title _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of Charleston, S.C._, a second and enlarged edition of which appeared in 1867. It included three of his hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5, listed above, and the two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, _q.v._, listed under her name. J. 423, 1592 revised—H.W.F. Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. He was educated at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and served several Baptist churches before transferring his membership to the Unitarian denomination, after which he served as minister to the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York, 1910-1917. In 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning, _Holy, holy Lord,_ _We with one accord,_ which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but has not passed into other collections. H.W.F. Greenough, James Bradstreet, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, was appointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in 1873, and professor of Latin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the Latin hymn in four stanzas beginning _Deus omnium creator_, for the tune _Harvard Hymn_ which his friend, John Knowles Paine, professor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at the Harvard Commencement dinner.