20 MAY 1865, Page 20

Rask's Anglo-Saxon Grammar. By Benjamin Thorpe. (Trnbner and Co.)—The publication

of this translation thirty-five years ago was an event, and we are glad now to receive a second edition much improved. Professor Rask wrote for Scandinavian students, and much of his work —notably the lengthy preface—had little interest for Englishmen. The omission of this has enabled Mr. Thorpe to make the grammar itself really more copious, and yet to leave it a handy little book of less than • 200 12mo. pages. The book was printed abroad, and the press corrected by a German gentleman. There are therefore a few comical errors, as when he treats of the various sorts of Anglo-S.ucon "rime," meaning not hoar frost, but a form of versification. As a whole, however, the book is printed with great accuracy.