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Rh popular; that of my friend, the Rev. H. L. Jenner, perhaps the mot eccleiatical; and that of another friend, Mr. Edmund Sedding, which, to my mind, bet exprees the meaning of the words."—Mediæval Hymns. 2d Edition. $10$ No copy of De Contemptu Mundi is known to be in the United States, and hence the extract given is only the cento from Trench's Sacred Latin Poetry, preceded by the firt ix lines of the poem. It is the part firt tranlated by Dr. Neale, beginning at the line, "Brief life is here our portion."  NOTE, that in this edition of The Celetial Country thee changes have been made:

1t. The poem has been divided into irregular tanzas. This change of form is partly for the convenience of thoe who love to refer and re-refer to favorite paages; partly to enable children readily to elect from it tanzas to be learned or ung; but chiefly to render its intermingling entences more clear to thoe who have not become familiar with its contruction.

2d. The punctuation has been materially remodelled and changed.

3d. The author's text has been altered in three intances, wherein the errors corrected eem manifetly lips of the pen or blunders of the compoitor, viz., in the ninth tanza, line fourteen, "thoe" is ubtituted for "them;" in the twenty-econd tanza, line two, "Thy" is ubtituted for "His," and in the forty-firt tanza, line nine, "But" is ubtituted for "And."