12 NOVEMBER 1881, Page 23

Words, Facts, and Phrases. By E. Edwards. (Chatto and Windus.)

—This is the latest addition to the useful set of reference-books issued by the same publishers, and deals principally with curious, quaint, and out-of-the-way matters. It will be found by the general reader to form a connecting link between the "Reader's Handbook," the "Dictionary of Dates," " Familiar Allusions," and the "Slang Dic- tionary."