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 better known as the author of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. This work weeps over the whole wide horizon of Greek, Latin and German hymns, and is, in my opinion, the mot intereting and trutworthy work of combined hitory and tranlation that has ever been publihed in Englih. Indeed, I know of no book which o combines the fervor of a religious and poetic temperament with the calm dicrimination and good ene of a judicial mind.

During thee intervening years, I have not, in the proper ene of the term, purued the tudy of mediæval hymns, but there are ome concluions of my maturer judgment which I wih to note; and there are ome changes in this final edition which hould be explained:

The De Contemptu Mundi is not properly a hymn. It has come to be claed as uch in conequence of the admiration of Archbihop Trench and the beautiful paraphrae of Dr. Neale. It cannot, therefore, be compared with the other hymns in this volume, but tands