23 APRIL 1898, Page 22

A New English Dictionary. By Dr. James A. H. Murray.

" H- Haversian.' (Clarendon Press.)—This part, the first instal- ment of VoL V., contains 3,815 words, mostly Teutonic in origin, almost exactly eleven times the number in Johnson, with 15,624 illustrative quotations. It abounds, of course, with interesting matter. " Handsome," for instance, in its first sense,. " easy to handle," is obsolete. Its second, " clever," either of action or speeh, is queried as obsolete, " exc. United States."