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Alfred’s Geography of Europe, by S. W. Singer - 313 
The First Coffee Houses in England, by E. F. Rim- 
bault, LL.D. - - - - - - 314 
True Tragedy of Richard IIT. - - - - 315 
Folk Lore — Merry Lwyd— Deathbed Superstition - 315 
Passage in L’Allegro— Milton’s Minor Poems - - 316 
Doctor Dobbs — Golden Age of Magazines - - 316 
Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 317 
Extracts from old Records, by R. Cole = - - 317 
QUERIES : — 
Queries on Outline - - 5 - - 318 
Christ’s Hospital — Old Songs once ponular there - 318 
Watching the Sepulchre, &c. - = - - 318 
Minor Queries : — Conrad of Salisbury — Peruse or Per- 
vise — Cromlech — Meaning of Grummett — Vertue’s 
MSS.— Loscop — Ormonde House— As Morse caught 
the Mare — Dustpot, Forthlot — Tracts attributed to 
Eachard — Qieen of Hearts—Guildhalls— Vox Populi 
— Use of Coffins — Rococo — Howlett the Eugraver 
— The Bear, &c. = ~ - - 319 
REPLIEs : — 
Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole - - - 321 
College Salting - - - - - - 321 
Junius es - - - - - - 322 
White Hart Inn, Scole - - - - - 323 
Parkership, Porkership, Pokership - - - 323 
Replies to Minor Queries :— Coleridge’s Christabel — 
Sir William Rider —God tempers the Wind —Com- 
plutensian Polyglot — Tickhill — Bishop Blaise—San- 
gred— Judas Bell—La Mer des Histoires - - 324 
MIScCELLANIES : ~ 
Tale of a Tub — A Genius — Dedications - - 326 
MISCELLANEOUS : -— 
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 326 
Notices to Correspondents - - - = = 326 
Advertisements - - - - - 327 
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 com- 
plete 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 in the Collection he gave of his father’s Dis- 
sertation, in 2 vols. Copenhagen, 1834. 
Mr. Thorpe, in the 2nd edit. of his Analecta, 
has given “ Alfred’s Geography,” &c., no doubt 
accurately printed from the Cotton MS., and has 
rightly explained Apdrede and Wylte in his 
Glossary, but does not mention AZfeldan; and 
Dr. Leo, in his Sprachproben, has given a small 
portion from Rask, with a few geographical notes. 
Dr. Ingram says: “I hope on some future occa- 
sion to publish the whole of “ Alfred’s Geography,” 
accompanied with accurate maps.” 
Rask has anticipated Mr. Hampson’s correction 
respecting the Wéti, and thus translates the 
passage: “men norden for Oldsakserne er Obo- 
triternes Land, og i Nordost Vilterne, som man 
kalder AXfelder.” The mistake of Barrington and 
Dr. Ingram is the more extraordinary when it is 
recollected that no people are so frequently men- 
tioned in the chronicles of the Middle Ages as this 
Sclavonic tribe: citations might be given out of 
number, in which their contests with their neigh- 
bours the Obotriti, Abodriti, or Apdrede of Altred 
are noticel. Why the Wilti were sometimes 
called Affeldi or Heveldi, will appear from their 
location, as pointed out by Ubbo Emmius : “ Wil- 
sos, Henetorum gentem, ad Havelam trans Albim 
sedes habentem.” (Rer Fris. Hist. 1. iv. p. 67.) 
Schaffarik remarks, ‘‘ Die Stoderaner und Have- 
laner waren ein und derselbe, nur durch zwei 
namen interscheiden zweige des Weleten stammes ;” 
and Albinus says: “ Es sein aber die richten Wilzen 
Wender sonderlich an der Havel wonhaft.” They 
were frequently designated by the name of Lutict, 
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