Shorter Notices
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles. Parts XIV..XVI. (Humphrey Milford. 1.7os. each.) A FURTHER three parts of this magnificent dictionary, compiled at the University of Chicago, under the editorship of Sir William Craigie and Professor James R. Hulbert, have now appeared covering from " Outdoors " to "Schoolhouse Preacher." This great work of scholarship makes steady progress, but it may need a new edition almost as soon as it is completed, so fast does the language change and get enriched by the development of events. Also, it is not with- out errors of omission even now ; for, glancing cursorily through its pages, I notice that under " Plain " there is no mention of Plain- song, but I presume that this word does . not fall into the special compass of the book, which is intended not as a Complete dictionary of the English language, but as an American supplement to the great Oxford Dictionary—in which case, however, there seemsto me to be a certain amount of inevitable overlapping".
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