Notes and Queries, page 1 by Various Authors
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racts attributed to Eachard--Queen of Hearts--Guildhalls--Vox Populi--Use of Coffins--Rococo--Howlet the Engraver--The Bear, &c. 319
REPLIES:-- Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole 321 College Salting 321 Junius 322 White Hart Inn, Scole 323 Parkership, Porkership, Pokership 323 Replies to Minor Queries:--Coleridge's Christabel-- Sir William Rider--God tempers the Wind-- Complutensian Polyglot--Tickhill--Bishop Blaise-- Sangred--Judas Bell--La Mer des Histoires 324
MISCELLANIES:-- Tale of a Tub--A Genius--Dedications 326
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 326 Notices to Correspondents 326 Advertisements 327
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KING ALFRED'S GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE.
There is no other printed copy of the A.-S. Orosius than the very imperfect edition of Daines Barrington, which is perhaps the most striking example of incompetent editorship which could be adduced. The text was printed from a transcript of a transcript, without much pains bestowed on collation, as he tells us himself. How much it is to be lamented that the materials for a more complete edition are diminished by the disappearance of the _Lauderdale MS._, which, I believe, when Mr. Kemble wished to consult it, could not be found in the Library at Ham.
Perhaps no more important illustration of the Geography of the Middle Ages exists than Alfred's very interesting description of the Geography of Europe, and the _Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan_; and this portion of the Hormesta has received considerable attention from continental scholars, of which it appears Mr. Hampson is not aware. As long since as 1815 Erasmus Rask (to whom, after Jacob Grimm, Anglo-Saxon students are most deeply indebted) published in the Journal of the Scandinavian Literary Society (ii. 106. sq.) the Anglo-Saxon Text, with a Danish translation, introduction, and notes, in which many of the errors of Barrington and Forster are pointed out and corrected. This was reprinted by Rask's son i