hymns; to Mr. Robert Bridges for his adaptations and translations published in The Yattendon Hymnal; to Messrs. Houghton Mifflin & Co. for the use of hymns by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier; Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for the hymn by Phillips Brooks, Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for the hymns by Wm. Cullen Bryant, and Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for a sonnet by Theodore Parker;

To John H. Gower Mus. Doc. (Oxon.) who has composed a new tune for this collection and accorded permission to use several others by him; to Professor George W. Chadwick, the Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, the Rev. Edwin P. Parker, D. D., Professor Horatio W. Parker, Mr. Arthur Somervell, Mr. George C. Stebbins and Mr. Lawrence W. Watson for the use of tunes composed by them; to the Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Bishop J. H. Vincent, and the Rev. Charles L. Hutchins for tunes of which they possess the copyright; and to Professor Frank G. Moore of Trinity College, Hartford, for a tune composed by his brother, the late H. M. W. Moore.

If the editors have inadvertently infringed any copyrights in the use of hymns or tunes they crave forgiveness. They have sought to communicate with all authors and composers whose whereabouts they knew.