26 MARCH 1921, Page 24

Mr. Milford has issued the twenty-fifth edition of that in-

valuable little book, Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (2s. net). It was originally compiled sixty years ago by the late Mr. Horace Hart, but the first edition did not appear till 1893. Since then it has been a familiar guide for compositors and printers' readers, and for professional writers. The new edition has been revised and enlarged ; we observe that the Oxford Press adopts " pacifist " in prefer- ence to " pacificist," and adheres to "tire " rather than " tyre," which the late Sir J. A. H. Murray described as " non-etymo- logical."