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 aFC. 17 observed, that the Hymns on the Nativity, Annun- ciation, and Visitation, of our Blessed Lady, a also thoe to St Anne, St Stephen, and St Jolm the Evangelist, are from the Monastic Breviary of Cluny; thoe na the Purification and the Assump- tion, the Hymn to Jesus, and that for Sunday Morning, from the Parisian Breviary; and thoe to St Joseph, St Peter, St. Paul, and St Plus the Fifr, from the .Rozolta delle Iutule. Every hymn, without exception, ha been newly translated from the Latin; and there is reason to believe, that nely half the hymns he given have never before appeared in the English tongue. As respect the Hymns in general, it may be useful to remark, that the greater number of them appear to have been originally written, not with a view to private reading, but for the purpose of being sung to the betutlfal ecclesiastical melodies by Mo- nastic and other Religious Bodies at their Office in Choir. This circumstance will serve to explain a few scattered expressions, which otherwise might  unreal; as, for instance, where allusions occur to the practice of rising at midnight to sing praises to (d ;---aud if, on the one hand, some few of the Hymns may so far appear le adpted to the use of 2 ........ Googl