Excerpt from John Ellerton: Being a Collection of His Writings on Hymnology, Together With a Sketch of His Life and Works
This book is the development of a very limited design. The original intention was merely to reprint (at the desire of many who were interested in Hymnody) the papers on "Favourite Hymns and their Authors," which Canon Ellerton had written for the Parish Magazine, and which subsequently re-appeared in the Church Monthly, prefixing to them a Sketch of the Author's Life and Works. But it was soon perceived that his most important contributions to Hymnology, apart from his own hymns, were those articles which he had composed for the Churchman's Family Magazine, Church Congresses, or for special occasions, and that the work would be a far more valuable contribution to the literature of the subject if these were included. Then among the Canon's papers were found drafts of several original hymns, translations, and poems which could not be omitted.
The Sketch of the Author's Life, while it still remains but a sketch, could not have attained to any degree of completeness had it not included much interesting matter connected with the compilation of the chief Hymnals now in use, and thus the work grew to its present size.
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