INTRODUCTION.
TI7E take pleasure in giving to this timely publica-
VV tion our hearty commendation. The compiler
and editor, Rev. Marshall W Taylor, D. D.,
now the presiding elder on the Ohio District of the
Lexington Conference, is not only well qualified in
important particulars for the preparation of this
work, but he has wrought at his task with most
praiseworthy diligence and patience. We are glad
that he undertook it, and we congratulate him on
its successful completion. We know of no one who
has had better opportunity than he to hear these mel¬
odies and songs, as sung with their many variations
in language, tune, and style in different parts of the
country, and under differing circumstances, and we
know of no one who would be more likely to select
the best of these varieties for permanent preservation.
No one, we are sure, more justly appreciates their his¬
toric value, their usefulness in the past, and their prom¬
ise of usefulness in the future. During a considerable
number of years he has given much time and labor,
and expended not a little money, in the performance
of his task; and the result does him great credit.
Those who read the Preface, from his pen, will be
able to appreciate the motives which have inspired
his toil, and will most heartily wish for his book all
the success he hopes for it in the noble mission upon
which it is now sent forth.
The tunes aceompanyinj these songs were caught
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