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Title: Hymns of the Greek Church
Translated with Introduction and Notes

Author: John Brownlie

Release Date: January 20, 2009 [EBook #27848]

Language: English

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HYMNS OF THE GREEK CHURCH

HYMNS OF
THE GREEK CHURCH

TRANSLATED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
JOHN BROWNLIE, D.D.
AUTHOR OF
'HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITERS OF THE CHURCH HYMNARY'

EDINBURGH AND LONDON
OLIPHANT, ANDERSON & FERRIER
_1900_

SOME PRESS NOTICES

"This work at its best reaches the level of absolute excellence, and the
book is entitled to a warm and grateful welcome."--_Record_.

"Mr Brownlie has taste and a poetic gift, and his verses are easy and
natural, rarely, if ever, betraying the fact that they are the work of a
translator."--_Church Times_.

"This dainty volume will certainly enhance his reputation."--_Glasgow
Herald_.

"It brings into dignified Church-English some sixty simple and powerful
hymns. The book should prove welcome to men generally interested in
hymnody, and particularly to those who are ignorant of the richness of
the Greek liturgy."--_Scotsman_.

"Mr Brownlie has the knack of hymn-writing, and the translations from the
Greek which he has published in this book will be a welcome addition to
English hymnology."--_Athenaeum_.

"Mr Brownlie has done eminent service as a hymnologist and translator of
hymns. These translations are in smooth and flowing English verse, and
the hymns are interesting both on their intrinsic merits and as
representing the religious thought and emotion of an importan