31 MARCH 1939, Page 40

Harrap Book Notes

The French Dictionary

OUR full-page announcement a month ago gave full details of Harrap's Standard French and English Dictionary, which is now completed by the publication of Part H (English-French, 63s. net). Professor Ernest Weekley in the Observer said : " No comparison is possible with any previous attempts at French-English lexicography . . . . The Editor and his assistants are to be congratulated on the completion of a really magnificent piece of scholar- ship which will long rank as the standard and unassailable authority." Even such colloquial expressions as O.K., the whole bag of tricks, brass tacks, the answer's a lemon, are correctly translated. Prospectus from HARRAP (Dept. 4), x82 High Holborn, London, W.C.i.