conditions the other stanzas severely. Again the weak
apologetic latter half of the German hymn _Herzliebster Jesu_, No. 42,
is irreconcilably out of the key with the pathetic grief of the
beginning. Cases in which caesuras and grammatical breaks are
inconsistent are numberless.

[24]See note to Hymn 90. Other english hymns altered for practical
purposes in this book are Nos. 19, 35, 51, last verse of 52, 66, 94,
and 96.

[25]I give illustrations of these words in notes to Hymns 27, 54, 58, 63,
68, 84, and 98.

[26]The cheapness is not the direct cause of the ugliness of our common
hymn-books, nor is their ugliness the cause of their cheapness. If many
copies of a book are sold, they can be sold cheaply; if only a few,
then the initial expense, which is much the same whether the book be
beautiful or ugly, must be shared between those few buyers and the
author. But thus it comes about indirectly for cheapness to be the
cause of meanness and ugliness, because in a larger market there is
greater indifference to artistic excellence of all kinds, and from
habit a preference for what is inferior. In a large edition this book
could be sold as cheaply as another.

[27]I state here once for all that in musical matters I offer my opinion
with becoming humility.

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