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I. The Bay Psalm Book -- II. The "accommodated" Psalm books -- III. Pioneer hymn writers -- IV. Hymns on death and perdition -- V. The old-time singing -- VI. The kist o' whistles and its companions -- VII. Some early hymn books -- VIII. Leland, Holden, Key, Pierpont -- IX. Tappan, G.W. Doane, Sears, Waterbury -- X. Hastings, Muhlenberg -- XI. Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Hyde -- XII. Bryant, Holmes -- XIII. Bacon, Duffield, Bethune -- XIV. Whittier -- XV. Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Howe -- XVI. Palmer, Smith -- XVII. Furness, Ware, Burleigh, Bulfinch -- XVIII. Mrs. Esling, Alice Cary, Phoeve Cary, Miss Warner, Miss Lathbury, Mrs. Miller -- XIX. Coxe, Brooks, W.C. Doane -- XX. Longfellow, Johnson -- XXI. Fanny Crosby, Mrs. Prentiss -- XXII. Hunter, Everest, Wolcott, March, Phelps, Hopper, Mrs. Slade, Mrs. Thomson, Gilmore, Gladden, Babcock, Shurtleff -- XXIII. Hosmer, North, Van Dyke, Benson, Stryker, Copeland -- XXIV. Some Gospel singers and their songs. |