10 SEPTEMBER 1864, Page 22

King Alfred's Anglo - Saxon Version of Boothius de Consolations Philosophic& By

the Rev. Samuel Fox, M.A., Rector of Morley, Derby-

shire. (H. G. Bohn.)—A useful addition to Mr. Bohn's Antiquarian Library. Probably this generation will be rather at a loss to understand the grounds of the high estimation in which this treatise was hold in the middle ages, but King Alfred's translation has for Englishmen in general, andof course still more for students of Anglo-Saxon, an interest of its own. Mr. Fox gives the Anglo-Saxon and a literal English version on opposite pages, to which is appended King Alfred's poetical version of Boothius and Mr. Tapper's verse translation, together with a glossary.