MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 349 



RASK'S ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR, TRANSLATED BY B. THORPE. BLACK AND 



YOUNG. 1831. 



DEUTSCHE GRAMMATIK VON DR. GRIMM. 3 VOLS. TREUTTEL AND WURTZ. 



1832. 



IN our last month's review, when we were speaking of a native writer of a 

 new English Grammar, whose capacity we did not think meanly of, we urged 

 him to study Rask and Grimm ; fearing that our brevity may have made our 

 advice unintelligible or inefficient, we take this occasion to notice the works of 

 the authors whom we then mentioned. Of the first of them we say less than 

 we should otherwise do, because his admirable Anglo-Saxon Grammar has 

 been competently translated into English, and exposed to view in many of the 

 shops of our metropolitan booksellers. 



The more bulky and more comprehensive " Deutsche Grammatick" of Dr. 

 Grimm, of which we have received the third octavo (we expect a fourth soon), 

 as yet exists only in the German language ; and various and important as the 

 contents of the volumes are, and indispensable as a knowledge of them is to 

 every one who would understand our own or any other one of the northern lan- 

 guages in its primary state, we do not think it probable that they will, or 

 essential that they should, become parts of English literature by going under 

 the hand of a translator and publisher. There is, however, one sense in which 

 we trust they will become vernacular. Henceforth we shall consider every one 

 who comes forward in the capacity of an instructor in the English language 

 without a familiarity with the many important philological facts bearing upon 

 our speech, which Dr. Grimm has displayed to be an ignorant intruder, whose 

 presumption is to be rebuked, not to say punished. We expect in the course of 

 time our grammarians and others will transfer to their works the results of those 

 inquiries of Dr. Grimm which belong to their subject, and that his spirit will 

 by these means be transferred into the vehicles of popular instruction ; but 

 hitherto we have seen only one instance of this, that, is in the German Grammar 

 of Professor Bernays, to which some new and valuable features are given by use 

 of the materials which Dr. Grimm has supplied. We refer especially to the ad- 

 mirable " Dictionary of Prefixes and Affixes/' at once as an illustration of our 

 meaning, and a decisive proof of the truth of our assertion. We hope that our 

 countrymen will avail themselves of the treasures to which we have so anxiously 

 called their attention, and, after another observation, quit the subject for the pre- 

 sent. The late Mr. Home Tooke had but a very limited knowledge of the 

 northern tongues, but he has proved in his " Diversions of Purley," that an ac- 

 quaintance with them is essential to an English scholar, and the errors and de- 

 fects of his work are such as would have been prevented by a more extensive 

 knowledge of them. Verbum sapienti. 



Suffice it for Dr. Grimm's praise that he is admitted in the most learned country 

 in Europe to be the best scholar in all the forms of the Teutonic dialects ; and for 

 the satisfaction of the English student, that in the volumes before us the results 

 of twenty years study are luminously set forth. 



THE FAMILY TOPOGRAPHER. BY SAMUEL TYMMS. VOL. II. WESTERN 

 CIRCUIT. LONDON : J. B. NICHOLS AND SON. 1832. 



THE present volume contains Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, 

 Somersetshire, and Wiltshire. We cannot sufficiently praise the industry, 

 research, and perspicuity of Mr. Tymms, as exemplified in the work before us. 

 Few of our readers are aware of the very great labour and research indispens- 

 able to the successful and satisfactory completion of a compilation of this nature, 

 and we have great pleasure in fulfilling a duty we owe, both to the author and 

 the public, by recommending Mr. Tymms's work most strongly to our readers. 



ENCYCLOPCEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. PART III. 



BY J. C. LOUDON. LONDON : LONGMAN AND Co. 1832. 

 WE think the design of the present work an admirable one. The object of 

 Mr. Loudon, the very able conductor, is gradually to improve our dwellings by 



