SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading les notico such Books of tho weals as have nd reserved for review In other forms.] A New English. Dictionary on Historical Principles. " Shastri—Shyster," by Henry Bradley. " Traik—Trinity," by Sir James A. H. Murray. (Clarendon Press. 5s. each.)--- The quarterly sections of the great Oxford English Dictionary continue to appear with an unfailing regularity which reflects high credit on the editorial arrangements. The April section completes the eighth volume, to the end of " Sh." It is a curious tribute to the comprehensiveness of the work that this part begins with a Hindi word and ends with an American one. This section is unique, however, in the entire absence (except for phonetic abnormalities, as in 'shrine" and " shivaree ") of words from Greek, Latin, or French. The July section carries the dictionary well into its tenth and last volume. This section alone contains nearly four thousand words, very few of which are of purely English origin: there are thirty pages of words beginning with the Latin prefix trans. It is impossible to overestimate the usefulness of this monumental work.
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