HUNC CIRCUM INNUMERA GENTES POPULIQUE VOLABANT. AC VELUTI IN PRATIS, UBI APES ESTATE SERENA FLORIBUS INSIDUNT VARIIS, ET CANDIDA CIRCUM WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MDCCCLI 270.0.361. OTHECA PREFACE IN the South Transept of the Crystal Palace, already vanishing from before our eyes, may be seen, for a little while longer, twin figures of the youthful Alfred the Great, and his Mother; who is giving him the Book of Saxon poetry, which she had promised to him, among her sons, who should soonest learn to read it. Historians record that Alfred was passionately fond |