mplated, withheld the $500, and Keller's work received merely the
compliment of being judged worth presentation. The artist had his
copyright, but he remained a poor man.

Matthias Keller was born at Ulm, Wurtemberg, March 20, 1813. In his
youth he was both a musician and a painter. Coming to this country, he
chose the calling that promised the better and quicker wages, playing in
bands and theatre orchestras, but never accumulating money. He could
make fine harmonies as well as play them, but English was not his
mother-tongue, and though he wrote a hundred and fifty songs, only one
made him well-known. When fame came to him it did not bring him wealth,
and in his latter days, crippled by partial paralysis, he went back to
his early art and earned a living by painting flowers and retouching
portraits and landscapes. He died in 1875, only three years after his
Coliseum triumph.

"GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND."

This familiar patriotic hymn is notable--though not entirely
singular--for having two authors. The older singing-books signed the
name of J.S. Dwight to it, until inquiring correspondence brought out
the testimony and the joint claim of Dwight and C.T. Brooks, and it
appeared that both these scholars and writers translated it from the
German. Later hymnals attach both their names to the hymn.[34]

[Footnote 34: For a full account of this disputed hymn, and the curious
trick of memory which confused _four_ names in the question of its
authorship, see Dr. Benson's _Studies of Familiar Hymns_, pp. 179-190]

John Sullivan Dwight, born, in Boston, May 13, 1813, was a virtuoso in
music, and an enthusiastic student of the art and science of tonal
harmony. He joined a Harvard musical club known as "The Pierian
Sodality" while a student at the University, and after his graduation
became a prolific writer on musical subjects. Six years of his life were
passed in the "Brook Farm Community." He was best known by his serial
magazine, Dwight's _Journal of Music_, which was continued from 1852 to
1881. His death occurred in 1893.

Rev. Charles Timothy Brooks, the translator of Faust, was born, in
Salem, Mass., June 20, 1813, being only about a month younger than his
friend Dwight. Was a student at Harvard University and Divinity School
1829-1835, and was ordained to the Unitarian ministry and settled at
Newport, R.I. He resigned his charge there (1871) on account of ill
health, and occupied himself with literary work until