ItInuoGRAPTIY. It has been estimated that are .tol1.o00 hymns in all languages, of which the greatest number are in German, and the next greatest number are in English. The literature of the subject is conse quently becoming quite large. The great thesaurus of information is .4. :Julian's Dirtionary of ktonnoiogy (London and New York. I592). the labor of many years find of many hymnologists It covers the entire field and contains separate articles upon the hymnol ogy of the different periods and lands. A. F. W. Fi seller's Kirelo n1 iedi r-1,, rieun (Gotha, 1STS 79) also very good. For the study of early Greek and Latin hymns the standard work is II. A. Daniel's VI VS11111'11.4 Ilymnologieus (Leip zig. IS55), which gives the text of many hymns; for the Latin mediaeval hymns, a work of simi lar rank is P. Mone's Lateinisehe Ilyninea dl'S EitiebliterS ( Freiburg, 1853). For German Protestant hymnology to the seventeenth century the great work is P. Wackernagcl, Das deutsche kirchenlied eon Jr r alteshn Zeit bis au Anfang des Leipzig. IS64-77). J. :11. Neale, by his Mediirral Hymns and Seguene•s (London. 1S51), Ilymns of the L'astern Church (London, and other similar works. con tributed much to a knowledge of the hymnology of the Eastern and Western Churehes of the Ages. A fairly creditable book on Latin hymns is S. W. Dullield's Latin Hymn-u-riters and T17rir Banana (New York, 1SS9).
The following books are recommended. but the list makes no pretension to completeness, only the greater hooks being named. On the general subject: Josiah Miller. Singers and Songs of the Church (New York. Is119): J. E. Prescott, ('hris tian Hymns and Hymn-writers (London, ISS3) ; W. G. Horder. The llymn Lover (London, 1SS9); I)unean Morrison. 7'he Great Hymns of the Churrh: Their Origin and .luthorship (London, 1S90): A. E. C.. Hymns and Their Stories (New
York. Is94); It. E. and F. G. Edwards, Romanc/s of Psalter and !Donna/ (New York, IS9(I): W. T. Stead, Hymns that flare Helped (New York. IS97 : Duncan Cainpbell, ?umas and llymn-mabrs (London. For the biog raphy of a hymnologist. consult H. Housman, John •llertoa: Coll, "lion of His Writings on Hymnology: With a Skt tell of His Life (London, IS96). On German hymnology, eonsult: Wink worth. Lyra Germanic° (London. 1S53): and id., Christian Singers of Germany (ib., NO); and for the hymns of Luther especially. Bacon, Hymns of Martin Luther (New York. 183). There are several commentaries on hymns that are very well done. Hyde, Hymnal Sermon Pic tures (New York, 1699), does what is done no where el-e, and is most complete in the analysis of the hymns he discusses. Commentaries on denominational collections are: Biggs, nylons. Ancitnt and Modtrn (London, 180;7), giving an notations on the hymns of the Church of Eng land: Nutter, nylon Studies (Ne• York, 1SSI, 3(1 ed. 19112), based on the American .11( Hiculost Hymnal; Burrage, Thplist Hymn Writers and Their II gni ( Portland ..:\laine, 1SSS) ; mkt, our Hymns and Their Authors (Nashville, Tenn., 1859) : the annotated edition of the Hymnal of the :Methodist •pis•opal Church. South; Robinson, .1/mutations upon Popular Ilymns (Ne• York, 1S93), based on his Landes Domini; Stevenson, The [British] Methodist //ymn.Book, illustrated (London, I553). from which S. W. Duffield drew many of the facts find ruw•doles given in his Eng lish Ilymns(New York. I556). intended as a mentary on Robinson's Laudes Domini. The best anthologies of religious lyrie poetry are The Book of Praise (London, many subse quent editions), by Sir Roundel) Palmer (Lord Selborne); and The Treasury of Song (London, 1S89). by Francis Turner Palgrave.