PRELIMINARY NOTICE. MR. FURNIVALL, at p. 12 of the Eleventh Report of the Com mittee of the Early English Text Society September, 1879, says as follows On Prof. Skeats receiving, to the Committees great pleasure, his well-earned and well-deserved reward of the Anglo- Saxon Professorship at Cambridge, he proposed that the Society should autotype the unique MS. of the great Anglo-Saxon epic of Beowulf. The Committee, relying on finding a translator and editor of the- text, adopted Prof. Skeats suggestion. The MS. was photographed by Mr. Praetorius he has delivered some of the autotypes, and undertakes to hand in the whole early next year. Part I. of the book is now in hand, and will be issued for 1880 in 1881. Before that Report was printed, I had promised Mr. Furnivall to act as editor. I collated the autotypes in the August and September of 1880, with the MS. as well as with the two transcripts of it, made nearly a hundred years ago the one by, the other for, the first editor of the...

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