PREFACE.
The ten years which have elapsed since the first edition of the present little work have done very much for the science of Hymnology. They have witnessed the publication, in Germany, of Mone's three volumes, of Daniel's fourth and fifth, and of Cunz's Geschichte des Deutschen Kirchenliedes: in France, of Gautier's Adam of S. Victor: in England, of my own Sequentiæ Medii Ævi, and the yet unfinished series of Sequentiæ Ineditæ in the "Ecclesiologist."
During the same period at least sixty different hymnals have issued from the press, the most memorable being the Hymnal Noted, the Sarum Hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern, Mr. Chope's Collection, and Sir Roundell Palmer's Book of Praise. Though not a Hymnal, it would be unjust not to mention Mr. J. D. Chambers' translation of
