Venerabilie Bedae Histories Ecclesiasticae, Libri III., IV. Edited by John
E. B. Mayor, M.A., and I. R. Lumby, B.D. (Cambridge University Press.)—The editors' prefix to their edition Herr Adolf Ebert's "Account of Beda," taken from his "History of Christian Roman Literature," and they add a number of notes full of the curious erudition which Mr. Mayor possesses in larger measure than any other English scholar. Beds, (it is really a relief to find scholars of unquestionable authority using the familiar etymology) affords, with his strangely mingled acuteness and credulity, a most interesting study ; and when he is illustrated by the learning of his present editors, he furnishes reading which cannot easily be surpassed in its kind. We may add that the editors have done their work most thoroughly, collating MSS., &c. That from which the text is printed is apparently coeval with Bede.
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