The works of Jacob Grimm aro numerous. Speaking of them, ho says, "All my labours have been either directly or indirectly devoted to researches Into our ancient language, poetry, and laws. These studies may seem useless to many, but to me they have always appeared a serious and dignified task, firmly and distinctly connected with our common fatherland, and calculated to foster the love of it. I have esteemed nothing trifling in these inquiries, but have used the small for the elucidation of the great, popular tradition, for the eluci dation of written documents. Several of toy books have been published in common with my brother William. We lived from our youth up in brotherly community of goods; money, books, and collectanca, belonged to us iu common, and it was natural to combine our labours." One of his earliest works was Ueber den Alt Deutschen Meister-Gesang,' Svo, Gottingen, 1811. His principal works are-' Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache ' (' History of the German Language '), 2 vole. Svo ; Deutsche Rechtsalterthiimer ' (' German Legal Antiquities '), 8vo, Gottingen, 1823 ; Deutsche Mythologic,' 8vo, 1835; and his great work on German grammar, `Deutsche Grammatik,' 4 vols. 8vo, 1826-37. He published
an edition of 'Reinhart Fuchs,' accompanied by a preface, in which he discusses the characteristics of the fable-narrations of the middle ages, and afterwards addressed an epistle to Lachmann on the same subject, ‘Sendrichreiben an Lachmann caber Reinhart Fuchs,' 8vo, Leipzic, 1340. He published a collection of 'German Axioms' (` mer '), 3 vole. Svo, Gottingen, 1840-42 ; and a collection of Old Spanish Narrative Poems' (' Silva de Romances Viejos '). One of the most popular of the publications of the brothers is the 'Kinder und Haus-Marchen,' of which there are three or four English translations. Two of the latest are entitled 'Household Stories collected by tho Brothers Grimm,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1853, and 'Home Stories, newly trans lated by M. L. Davis,' 8vo, 1855.
The Brothers Grimm have been for about three years employed on a large German Dictionary, which will be exceedingly valuable, and when completed may justly be regarded as a national work. It is entitled 'Deutsche, Worterbuch, von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm,' 4to, 1852, &c.; the fourth number of the second volume, published in May this year (1856), extends to 'Der.'