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THE BRITISH ANTHEM.
How Ii Will Read Now That "a King
is ON the Throne.

How Ii Will Read Now That King
is ON the Throne.
From the London Chronicle.
OF the many changes that will now
have to be made in our everyday litera-
ture none will be so marked as those
in the national anthem. We shall re-
vert 10 the old words sung by Henry
Carey at Cornhil tavern early in 17i0
the occasion being a dinner in celebra-
ton of the taking of Portobello by Ad-
miral Vernon in the previous year. As
to whether or not Carey was the author
of the words and composer of the music
he sang are questions which have never
been settled. A galliard bearing a close
resemblance to the melody was discov-
cred in a collection of virginia. music
written by DR.. John Bull, and transcribed
about 1922. Carey's claim from the mus
ical point OF view, was advanced by his
son, George Savile Carey, an actor at
Vovent Garden, but it is somewhat curl
Gus that his father was a contributor to
the Harmonlca Anglicana of 1742, and that
his name is against some of the songs,
but not against the melody which we all
know so well nowadays. These, however,
are the lines sung by Carey in 174O:
GOD SAVE THE KING
God save our gracious King,
Long live our noble King,
God save the King.
Send him victorious
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the King.
@ Lord our God arise,
Scatter his enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their politics,
Illustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all.
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On him be pleased to pour,
Long may he reign,
May be defend our laws,
And eyer give us cause
To sing, with heart and voice,
Col save the King.
These verses first became popular dur
ing the rebellion of 1745 and after they
appeared in the "Gentlemans Magazine
for October of that year, where, by the
way, they were called "A Song for two
voices as sung at both play houses"
they were regarded as the property of all
Englishmen. So that IL is from 1745 that
our illiterate National Anthem" as MIR.
w. S. Gilbert once termed it, may be dat
ed. The air has always been appreciated,
and often appropriated, by musicians.
Beethoven introduced it into his Battle
symphony and subsequently stated in his
journal: Il must show the English a lit
tie what a blessing they have in God
Save the King"
During Her Majestys long reign Ca
rey's version was altered many times. For
instance, the second line OF the first verse
has been rendered Long may Victoria
reign and in the second verse people
have sung, ION her our hopes are fix'd."
The second verse has been the bette mott
OF several poets and at the time of the
Diamond Jubilee Dean Hole wrote the
following stanza. in the hope that it
would become general:
o Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies.
Make war to cease.
Keep us from plague and dearth,
Turn Thou our woes to mirth,
And over all the earth
Let there be peace.
As for additional verses, there have
been very many, the authors including
Longfellow, Martin S. Skeffington. Canon
Hartford and Percy Harrison. Perhaps
the best Certainty its wish was gratifed)
commenced in this way
May Heaven her life defend
And make her race extend
Wide as her fame.
This was published at the time OF the
late Queens marriage.
The phrase God save the King" is very
old. One finds II An the English Bible
coverdale, 1876. aud, according to Froude,
1t was the watchword of the navy I'm 1916
Julius Heinz Of New London, wis,
recently discovered a black bear in its
den near there and went home for his
rifle. The animal was gone when he re-
turned. but he tracked Il for two days.
only to find az last that n. Schroeder. an
other hunter had killed and sold Il 70 a
meat dealer for $40. Heinz claimed part