# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S59
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Literary Notices. 59

Gregory up to the time of the Reformation: first appearance of harmony — mensural and figural music — influence on church song — church tones, tropes, psalm tones. Chapter 2. On Protestant chorale. Section 1. Its nature and origin: difference from Gregorian chant — origin — tonal and harmonic peculiarity — characteristics of figural music before the Reformation — rhythmic peculiarity. Rhythm in general. — Rhythmic variety, rhythmic change — the name "chorale" for Protestant church song. Section 2. Reintroduction of rhythmic chorale-singing: what is to be understood by it — degeneration of rhythmic song — regeneration — necessity of regeneration — theoretical objections to the reintroduction — historical proof that the congregations sang the chorale rhythmically — practical objections to the reintroduction — preconditions and expedient procedure in the reintroduction. Chapter 3. On Gregorian chant in the Lutheran Church, or on liturgical altar-song: basic features and principles of the Lutheran liturgy in general — the individual liturgical pieces or melodies — organ accompaniment and performance.

3. The Briar Rose Bush, or twenty-three short meditations on the Passion, by J. Diedrich, Evangelical Lutheran pastor. Halle, Mühlmann. 1855. 12mo. 92 pp. $0.25 postage free.

4. Thirty-two funeral sermons, called Mourning Bands, by Valerius Herberger, preacher at the Little Manger of Christ in Fraustadt, Poland. Edited by K. F. Ledderhose. Halle, Fricke. 1854. 8vo. 340 pp.

From Brockhaus in Leipzig:

Palestine. By K. v. Raumer, Professor in Erlangen. With a map of Palestine. Fourth, enlarged and improved edition. 1860.

"We direct," says a reviewer in the Ev. Kirchenzeitung, "as in the year 1835, so now again the attention of all Bible readers to this excellent handbook, which the author, by virtue of the unfading youthful freshness that has remained his even in advanced age, has in this fourth edition perfected in many respects with untiring scholarly diligence and brought into a standing worthy of the newest state of scholarship." — The great geographer Ritter gave this book the most brilliant testimony in the fifteenth part of his Erdkunde. He says of it: "A classic work, which through the conciseness of its content, the clarity of its arrangement and scholarly treatment, as well as the accuracy and completeness of its detailed citation of passages in the Old and New Testament, leaves all other compendiums of this kind far behind. Through the positive progress of discovery it will always remain capable of ever greater perfection, but in sense, spirit, and fidelity, as in universal scholarly knowledge, it will not easily be surpassed in this form." L.