31 MAY 1890, page 23

The Two English Dictionaries.*

THE merits of the New English Dictionary have been universally acknowledged. It claims to be constructed on historical principles," and this claim has been allowed by common......

Defoe's " Compleat English Gentleman."*

THIS treatise was written in 1729, and is one of Defoe's last works. It appears now for the first time in print, admirably edited by a German scholar, who dates his preface from......

Scottish National Memorials.*

THIS is, like The Century of Portraits which was noticed in the Spectator some time ago, one of those truly magnificent books which are among the results of the Glasgow......