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 The tranlator of is Dr. John Maon Neale, Warden of Sackville College, Suex, England, the mot ucceful tranlator of mediæval hymns, and one of the mot varied and voluminous writers of the time. "Lays and Legends of the Church of England;" "A Church Hitory for Children;" even volumes of romances; a hitory of Greece; a hitory of Portugal; of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, and of the Janenit Church of Holland; a large number of tales and hymns for children, and a mot learned and elaborate commentary on the Book of Palms, are included in the long catalogue of his works.

This cholar of Cambridge, and this monk of Cluni, have given to the religious world the weetet and dearet religious poem that our language contains. Dr. Neale ays that he looks upon the lines of Bernard "as the mot lovely, in the ame way that the Dies Iræ is the mot ublime, and the Stabat Mater the mot pathetic of mediæval poems," but his own poem may claim more jutly that word. is better than De Contemptu Mundi.