3 MAY 1890, page 23

Current Literature.

Cromer, Past and Present. By Walter Rye. (Jarrold and Sons.) —Mr. Rye, who has the advantage of a long-standing family con- nection with Cromer, has put together here an account......

Mr. J. S. Farmer's Dictionary Of Slang.* Mr. Farmer Admits

in his " Prefatory Note " that he can frame no satisfactory definition of the word "slang." He quotes with approval Dr. Murray's observation that "the circle of the English......