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be as well to review the progress of this great

work. Vols. I.-VI. are complete. Vol. VII., "0—P," which is under the charge of Sir James Murray, is to be finished by the October issue. The volume now current is shared by Dr. Craigie, who has taken "Q,"

and " as far as "Romantic," and Dr. Bradley, who now starts with "S." "5" is to be concluded in Vol. IX., and Vol. X. will bring the work to an end. It may be rash to prophesy about the time, but if Vols. IX.-X. aro on the same scale and are published at the same rate as VII., the conclusion should be in 1912. The number of words in this double section, mostly of Latin and French origin, is three thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, almost twelve times as many as are to be found in Johnson.