“Acta sanctor ord.  St. Bened,” tom. v.—­Miracula Wandregisili.

    “Essais sur l’Abbaye de St. Wandrille, par Langlois,” in 8vo. 
    Rouen, 1827.

Several books formerly belonging to this monastery, are now in the public library at Havre.

W.J.

Havre.

Russian Language (Vol. ii., p. l52.).—­A James Heard wrote a grammar of this language, and published {191} it at St. Petersburgh, in 1827.  Mr. Heard also published a volume of Themes, or Exercises, to his grammar, in the same year.  I am not acquainted with any other Russian grammar written in English.

Hamoniere published his Grammaire Russe at Paris in 1817; and Gr_e_tsch (not Gr_o_tsch) published (in Russian) his excellent grammar at St. Petersburgh about thirty years ago.  A French translation appeared at the same place in 1828, in 2 vols. 8vo., by Reiff.

In the Revue Encyclopedique for 1829, p. 702., some curious details will be found respecting, the various Russian grammars then in existence. Jappe’s Russian Grammar is possibly a misprint for Tappe, whose grammar, written in German, is a good one.  Besides these, the titles of some twenty other Russian grammars, in Russian, French, or German, could be mentioned.

The anthologies published by Dr. Bowring, besides his Russian, Dutch, and Spanish, are the Magyar, Bohemian, Servian, and Polish.

Writing from Oxford, where the first Russian grammar ever published was printed, as your correspondent JARLTZBERG correctly states, perhaps it may interest him, or his friend, who, he says, is about to go to Russia, to be informed (should he not already be aware of the fact) that a “Course of Lectures on Russian Literature” was delivered in this university, by Professor Trithen, at Sir Robert Tayler’s Institution, in the winter of 1849.

J.M.

Oxford, Aug. 6. 1850.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

A very interesting contribution to our early national literature, as well as to legendary history, has lately been published by Dr. Nicolaus Delius of Bonn.  He has edited in a small octavo volume, published at a very moderate price, Maistre Wace’s St. Nicholas, an old French poem, by the poetical Canon of Bayeux, whose Roman de Rou et des Ducs de Normandie, edited by Pluquet, and Roman de Brut, edited by Le Roux de Lincy, are, doubtless, familiar to many of our readers.  The present valuable edition to the published works of Maistre Wace, is edited from two Oxford MSS., viz., No. 270. of the Douce Collection, and No. 86. of the Digby Collection in the Bodleian:  and to add to the interest of the present work, especially in the eyes of English readers, Dr. Delius has appended to it the old English metrical life of Saint Nicolas the Bischop, from the curious series of Lives and Legends which Mr. Black has recently shown to have been composed by Robert of Gloucester.