Show made seldy of dictionary to read a dictionary twice through for pleasure as lord chatham did Is not a tempting suggestion but there Is a hint in sir mountstuart Mount stuart grant duffs diary of 1877 when ne wae was doing a good deal ot of train traveling on the continent ii in these last days I 1 have been exceed angly amused by brachet Brach ets s entomological dictionary which henry smith recommended to me when I 1 was in oxford the other day and which Is a perpetual uil tl slon sion of pleasant surprises it Is an admirable railway book for or one who can only read at the stations As the lord said who dipped into the die dic flonary while waiting tor for sir walter nalter scott the dictionary stories are unco short london chronicle |