10 APRIL 1909, Page 27

The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by Sir James A. Murray.

(Clarendon Press. 5s.)—This month's instalment is a double section, constituting a part of Vol. VIII. and taking in from " Ribaldric—Romantic." It appears under the care of Dr. W. A. Craigie. The comparative figures are not less surprising than usual. The corresponding portion in Johnson's Dictionary contains 216 words, this has 3,101; the quotations in Johnson are 764, here they number 17,877.