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DEAR HERBERT, -- I am at present continuously liturgical, owing to my Committee; but you must have the benefit of it.
I have often wondered which of the compilers of the Prayer-book fixed upon the Venite as the first Canticle for our Morning Service; wondered, I say, in the purposeless way that one does wonder, without ever taking the trouble to find out. I dare say there are abundant ecclesiological precedents for it, if one took the trouble to discover them. But the important thing is that it was done; and it is a stroke of genius to have done it. (N.B. -- I find it is in the Breviary appointed for Matins.)