20 OCTOBER 1883, page 23

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. October. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —The first article in this number is Dr. Gibb's essay on "The Life and Times of St. Anselm," for such it is, only......

Folk-etymology.*

"Max;" says the compiler of this valuable and entertaining dic- tionary, "is an etymologising animal. He abhors the vacuum of an unmeaning word. If it seems lifeless, he reads a......

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