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volume of Prof. Schroer's rearranged, revised, and enlarged edition of Grieb's authoritative dictionary of the English and German languages. The edition which, so far as the present generation is con- cerned, might easily be final is the tenth. To the first volume, English-German, we drew attention 9 th S. ix. 279. English readers will naturally find the later volume more directly serviceable. It con- tains a little over 1,200 pages against the 1,350 of its predecessor, a diminution easily comprehended by those familiar with both languages. Much of the information it supplies has been drawn from part ii. of the valuable English-German, German- English Dictionary of Flugel-Schmidt-Tanger, and from other recent authorities, to which acknow- ledgment is made. A large number of idiomatic expressions not to be found in earlier works are encountered, and a successful attempt has been made to disembarrass the work of the needless ballast which is apt to accumulate in the best dictionaries. What is sought and accomplished is to provide the public with an "inventory of the enormous and daily increasing mass of linguistic phenomena in the English and German languages." A complete dictionary is not to be hoped for, since, during the months or years occupied with its preparation, the languages receive additions. The present work is, however, adequate to the re- quirements of the average, or even the advanced scholar, and is ample for those of the business man, the general reader, and the man of the world. Scientific terms are liberally introduced, and those of slang are more sparingly employed. It is interesting to find that the pronunciation of Berlin is no longer regarded as provincial. In such matters it is difficult to obtain any exact standard. It would be a curious and an arduous task to explain the difference of vowel sounds in the case of Southern and Northern Germans. Such matters are, however, to be dealt with in essays, and not in the notice of a new edition of a standard dictionary. We can only reaffirm that no more trustworthy or serviceable book is easily accessible to students, English or German.

In Memoriam. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (Bell

& Sons.)

WE have here a cheap, beautiful, and convenient edition of Tennyson's fine poem. We should like to have other masterpieces in the same form. More attention should, however, be given to the text. A misprint such as " Eeep folly ! " for Deep folly ! p. 35, is not of much significance. The fact that one section of twelve lines, beginning "Old warder of these buried bones," is omitted is to be re- gretted.

French Commercial Correspondence.. By Charles Glauser, Ph.D. Adapted by W. Mansfield Poole, M.A. (Murray.)

THE aim of this work is explained in its title. It

seems likely to answer its purpose and is up to date.

An appendix gives various forms of " mandats

postals," &c.

An Old English Reader. By A. J. Wyatt, M.A.

(Cambridge, University Press.) MB. WYATT'S 'Old English Grammar ' has obtained so much favour that he has found it expedient to supply a complementary volume in this ' Old Eng- lish Reader,' both books dealing with the same type of the language, the early West Saxon. He

has selected his extracts from the three great monuments which have survived of works written in this dialect the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,' as edited by Earle and Plummer ; King Alfred's ver- sion of ' Orosius,' and his rendering of Gregory's 'Cura Pastoralis,' both edited by Dr. Sweet. To these he has appended a sufficiency of explanatory notes, giving graduated help to the learner, and an adequate glossary. Pains have evidently been taken to secure accuracy, and the book will doubtless form a useful praxis for beginners in early English.

THE Clarendon Press promises ' The Mediaeval Stage,' by E K. Chambers (2 vols.), a work which should be of great interest ; also ' The Complete Works of John Lyly,' now first collected by R. War- wick Bond, M.A. (3 vols.) ; and Plays and Poems of Robert Greene,' edited by J. Churton Collins, M.A. In its list we also notice ' The Lay of Havelok the Dane,' edited by W. W. Skeat, D.C.L.

MR. ROBERT WHITE, of Worksop, is printing by subscription ' Dukery Records : being Notes and Gatherings... ...of Nottinghamshire Ancient His- tory.' MSS. relating to the Worksop Manor estates have been placed at the author's service by the Duke of Norfolk. The papers relating to Welbeck Abbey include a synopsis of the chartulary. The Thoresby MSS. and papers and the Clumber collection have been lent respectively by the late Earl Manvers and the Duke of Newcastle. A catalogue of the Welbeck miniatures, a verbatim copy of the original edition of Thoroton's ' Notting- hamshire,' Mr. White's ' Provincial Words of Nottinghamshire' (to be edited by Mr. J. Potter Briscoe), and many other works of more than local interest will be included in the volume.

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