16 OCTOBER 1909, Page 28

The Orford English Dictionary. Edited by Sir James A. H.

Murray. " Prophecy—Pyxis." (The Clarendon Press. is. 6d.)—This treble section completes Vol. VII., and thus finishes the letters of the alphabet " A—Q." "R " is done down to " Romanite," and we may calculate that three sections will finish it. This, with the portion of " S " which has appeared (" S—Sauce ") will make up Vol. VIII. The later portions of " S " and " T—Z " will occupy IX., X. Calculating by analogy, we may reckon that the whole work will be finished in about forty-eight more sections. So far there have been published a hundred and fifty-seven sections, of which eighty-one are the work of Sir James Murray alone, with nineteen done in collaboration with Dr. Bradley.