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222 necessary, previous to the publication of this Runic Dictionary, to go through the various existing inscriptions until it presented itself. Now, however, thanks to Dr. Dieterich, every word existing in the two thousand inscriptions to which we have alluded, may instantly be referred to, an advantage which those who have endeavoured to ferret out the meaning of one of these mystic records can alone sufficiently appreciate.

Before concluding our notice of this useful volume, we must add, that the earlier sheets contain some valuable notes, by our countryman Mr. George W. Dasent, whose translations of the Prose, or Younger Edda, and of Rask's Grammar of the Icelandic, or Old Norse Tongue, have established his reputation both in Sweden and his own "Fatherland," as an accomplished philologist, and a successful investigator of the early forms of the old Scandinavian and Teutonic languages. 