31 AUGUST 1901, Page 23

A Concise Dictionary of the French and English Languages. By

F. E. A. Gasc. (G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Concise dictionaries are necessary, in view of the brevity of human life and the shallowness of the human purse, but, as necessarily wanting illustrative examples, they should be avoided as much as possible. To what kind of classical scholarship could one attain with only concise dictionaries of Latin and Greek ? We mean no disparagement of M. Gasc's book, which is the work of a teacher of repute.