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the hymns to be found in the editions of the works of separate authors; and I wish to present my thanks to Dr. H. B. Smith, Professor and lately Librarian in Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and to Dr. R. D. Hitchcock, of the same seminary, for aid in finding the best works for my purpose, and for procuring me the use of rare old books from the library of the seminary.

Almost all the hymns here given may, however, be found in Daniel, Mone, or Wackernagel, many of them in all three. The illustrations from the writings of the Christian fathers are mostly in Daniel or Mone; those from the Greek in Monc. I hope I have taken every thing good that there is in Trench, and pretty much all of Trench is good; I may say the same thing of Dr. Schaff's Christ in Song, and repeat it with more emphasis of Mrs. Charles's Christian Life in Song. There is hardly one of the many hymns translated by her which I have not chosen to put in this collection. Her book is also a storehouse of interesting general description and criticism, and of valuable illustrative anecdotes and extracts from the older authors.

Among the thousands of Latin hymns, there are doubtless many which other students of them would have preferred to some of these. Sometimes a famous author, or a peculiar meter, or some historical association, has given a hymn a place it would not otherwise have obtained. It is likely that there are some omitA 2*

ted which I should prefer, but which have not attracted my careful attention. I shall esteem it a kindness if any one will tell me of favorite hymns, or other matter, which he would like to see introduced if a new edition should be needed.

In the grammatical notes, II. stands for Harkness's Latin Grammar; A. and G. for Allen and Greenough's; G. for Gildersleeve's; M. for March's Comparative Anglo-Saxon Grammar.

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, EASTON, PA.,

August, 1874.

F. A. M.