15 APRIL 1911, Page 24

Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by Sir James A. H. Murray

"Scouring—Sedum," by Henry Bradley. (Clarendon Press. 5s.)— This double section is mainly concerned with words of Romanic and Latin origin. (We cannot help doubting whether "screw" is one of them.) This same word "screw" is an excellent example of the wide range of meanings which a word somehow acquires. "A miser, a peculiar stroke at billiards, a salary, a tonic, com- pulsion, an unsound horse" are some of them. "Sea" is one of the few 0. E. words and occupies many pages. One part is still wanting to voL viii. In voL ix. the letters S and the earlier part of T remain to be finished. Vol. x. will contain the latter part of T with II—Z. The end is in sight, one might say.