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... GOOD feoWfeNCBSiAS Story by John Lefroy IN 1850 the British Minister at Stockholm brought home a very rare book, which he believed would interest the great hymn-writer, the Rev. J. M. Neale. It was Piae Cantiones, a collection of Swedish and Finnish tunes compiled in 1582 by Peter of Nyland. Neale, who was interested at the time in reviving the dying practice of carol-singing, was overjoyed. ...