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 Bruns 147 A list of the hymns that have appealed most to the more modern translators may be of general interest (the first number refers to the modern, the second to the eighteenth century versions): Befiehl du deine Wege 15 3 Nun ruhen alle W alder 13 1+3 of stanza VIII Geh aus mein Herz und suche Freud 10 O Haupt wll Blut und Wunden 9 1 Wir singen dir, Emanuel 9 1 Frohlich soil mein Herze springen 8 2+1 of stanza VII V, as given by Mr. Hewitt, is a misprint. Ein Lammlein geht 8 2 Die giildne Sonne 7 Wie soil ich dich empfangen 7 1 Welt, sieh hier dein Leben 6 4 A glance at the above list shows how little the more purely lyrical songs with their love of nature appealed to the Moravian taste: Nun ruhen all Walder, Geh aus mein Herz und suche Freud, Die giildne Sonne. We must not leave this second period of Paul Gerhardt in England and America without referring to the probability of an even greater development, which needs must come as the great body of Lutherans in this country gradually adopt the English language, a process that has become more marked in the Middle West during the last two decades. Mr. Hewitt's biographic and bibliographic appendix could have been made more serviceable: the dates of birth or death or even the year of publication are frequently omitted; furthermore the names of sixteen translators appearing in the text are omitted. A few misprints should be corrected : no. 64 should be crossed out and 229 added to Beddome; to Kennedy should be added no. 155 and (probably) 150. In the index on p. 168 the number of translation of O Jesu, schb'nstes Licht should be changed from 2 to 4. The author's tabulations of alliteration, assonance, repetition, etc. are open to serious objection. Many of the alliterations are not alliterations in the stricter sense of the word, as die vollkommene Yreude, dein Geberde, dein Gesicht. In assonance Mr. Hewitt does not distinguish between assonance and rhyme; as Gut und Blut, schlecht und recht, Rat und Tat. Furthermore a mere enumeration of these and kindred phenomena is of little value. Their proper place would have been in a chapter on the poet's technique, en- larging considerably the remarks on pp. 18 ff. There telling illus- trations would have been far more valuable than complete tabula- tions, but as Professor Albert Koster once said: "Das Schwerste leim Sammeln ist das Wegwerfen. " FRIEDRICH BRUNS. University of Wisconsin.