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• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

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• A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, by John Wesley (HTML at CCEL)
• Masihi Git ki Kitab: Ibadat ke Liye (Methodist hymn book, with words in transliterated Hindi and no music; Lucknow: Printed at the American Methodist Mission Press, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Methodist Pocket Hymn-Book, Revised and Improved: Designed as a Constant Companion for the Pious, of All Denominations, Collected From Various Authors (30th edition; Philadelphia: Printed by S. W. Conrad for E. Cooper, 1803) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Melodies (New York: G. Lane and C. B. Tippett, 1845), by Thomas Commuck and Thomas Hastings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • hymn pages with commentary: page images at hymnary.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Hymns of Wesley and Watts, by Bernard Lord Manning (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Ann Suter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Untersuchungen Über die Echtheit der Hymnen des Ambrosius (offprint from Jahrbücher für Classische Philologie supplement volume, in German; Leipzig: Druck von B. G. Teubner, 1903), by August Steier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Why the Amish Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by D. Rose Elder, contrib. by Terry E. Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler Worship (University of California Publications in History v33; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946), by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, contrib. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)