Reference Books from America
SHL—It may be a small matter, but is it necessary to spend dollars on copies of British reference books ? There are on sale in London photo- graphically reproduced American copies of the abridged Liddell and Scott Greek lexicon, minus the preface and with a title-page that omits the authors' names and gives no hint that the whole work is not of American origin. It does not seem likely that the demand for this par- ticular work is so great that it would tax the resources of the Clarendon Press to.produce a sufficiency of copies. Other " American " dictionaries, also on sale in this country, appear to be unacknowledged reproductions of standard British works, some of them perhaps in greater demand than the one named above. Perhaps our publishers have with some good though not very apparent reason arranged for these works to be printed in America and sold in England without the names of the authors. On the other hand, perhaps rot.—
Yours, &c., C. hi. HOunirtoN.
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