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…