Only twenty-one more ancient than the 16th century remained, of which those belonging to the primitive epoch were but eight, viz. four Ambrosian, two by Fortunatus and one each by Prudentius and Gregory. The number of Jean Baptiste Santeul's hymns rose to eighty-nine; those by Coffin--including some old hymns, e.g. "Jam lucis orto sidere" ("Once more the sun is beaming bright"), which he substantially re-wrote--were eighty-three; those of other modern French writers, ninety-seven. Whatever opinion may be entertained of the principles on which these Roman and Parisian revisions proceeded, it would be unjust to deny very high praise as hymn-writers to several of their poets, especially to Coffin and Jean Baptiste Santeul. The noble hymn by Coffin, beginning-- "O luce qui mortalibus "O Thou who in the light dost dwell, Lates inaccessa, Deus, To mortals unapproachable, Praesente quo sancti tremunt Where angels veil them from Thy rays, Nubuntque vultus angeli," And tremble as they gaze," and several others of his works, breathe the true Ambrosian spirit; and though Santeul (generally esteemed the better poet of the two) delighted in alcaics, and did not greatly affect the primitive manner, there can be no question as to the excellence of such hymns as his "Fumant Sabaeis templa vaporibus" ("Sweet incense breathes around"), "Stupete gentes, fit Deus hostia" ("Tremble, ye Gentile lands"), "Hymnis dum resonat curia caelitum" ("Ye in the house of heavenly morn"), and "Templi sacratas pande, Sion, fores" ("O Sion, open wide thy gates"). It is a striking testimony to the merits of those writers that such accomplished translators as the Rev. Isaac Williams and the Rev. John Chandler appear (from the title-page of the latter, and the prefaces of both) to have supposed their hymns to be "ancient" and "primitive." Among the other authors associated with them, perhaps the first place is due to the Abbé Besnault, of Sens, who contributed to the book of 1735 the "Urbs beata vera pacis Visio Jerusalem," in the opinion of Neale "much superior" to the "Caelestis urbs Jerusalem" of the Roman Breviary. This stood side by side with the "Urbs Jerusalem beata" of 1527 (in the office for the dedication of churches) till 1822, when the older form was at last finally excluded by Archbishop de Quelen. The Parisian Breviary of 1735 remained in use till the national French service-books were superseded (as they have lately been, generally, if not universally) by the Roman. Almost all French dioceses followed, not indeed the Breviary, but the example, of Paris; and before the end of the 18th century the ancient Latin hymnody was all but banished from France. Modern Latin hymns.