PRESS NOTICES OF PREVIOUS EDITION. The Athenæum says "Colonel Lumsden has certainly succeeded in producing a readable and most agreeable version of this interesting monument of our language." The Academy says "A vigorous and readable English version, in good swinging ballad metre." The St. James' Gazette says "The vigour of the original has been very faithfully reproduced; notably so in the account of the hero's fight with Grendel's mother, in the depths of the haunted mere." The Reliquary says— "We cordially commend the book, and assure our readers that in adding it to their literary stores they are indeed acquiring that which will give them pleasure, and be of permanent value." |