11 APRIL 1908, Page 23

The monthly instalment of the Oxford English Dictionary, Edited by

Dr. J. A. H. Murrray (Clarendon Press) is a double section "Monopoly—Movement" (a part of VoL VI.), by Henry Bradley (5s.) The proportion of native words is unusually large, and some of them are of great interest and importance, as month, moon, mother, mouth. As is invariably the case, the instalment abounds with curious words: morganatic is an instance, a Teutonic importation, and full of significance as to Teutonic ways of thinking. Mortgage, a much older settler among us, has a curious history. Then we have mosaic, something "oonneeted with the muses:"