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Another volume in the same series is A Bibliography of

Samuel Johnson, compiled by the late Mr. W. P. Courtney, and revised by Mr. D. N. Smith (7s. 6d. net). It is in reality far more than a mere bibliography, and, owing to the numerous descriptive notes—many of them covering several pages—it may be regarded almost as a history of Johnson's literary career. Perhaps the best of these notes is that upon the dictionary, in which Mr. Courtney quotes many of the more entertaining of Johnson's definitions, including the famous one of nettoork—" any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

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