Excerpt from National Hymns: How They Are Written and How They Are Not Written a Lyric and National Study for the TimesCarleton for publication under my editorial care. There were very few of these - not thirty, all told and those which were remarkable for lyric excellence were gra dually so reduced in numbers by the withdrawal of manuscripts by their authors, that after a while the original project was abandoned.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.