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Show " iWBMiwl I II I j MIJM iiim j material which has heVn collected. In-I In-I stead of the half-century which it was r thought would be needed, the work will have been finished In about half the time, and Dr Murray stands a good chance of living to see it done, a pleasure he hardly anticipated when he first took It In hand Beginning Twenty-one years ago with a large . collection of quotations, gathered In the course cf a quarter of a century by the Philosophical so-c so-c iety, he secured the co operation of over 120U persons, a respect le pro portion of thfin In the United States. t- read for words and meanings and to send the quotations they haj made, properly authenticated, te. him on cards. From t'ue,. he and his assist-I assist-I antb have gradually made the "Historical "Histor-ical Dictionary," publishing small I parts as soon as they were ready If we are not mistaken, the first eight volumes, carrying the alpha!. et through the letter K, are now complete; com-plete; of volume IX parts taking S into in-to Si and T through Ta have Just b. en published, and the volume will 1m.' !'.n-ished !'.n-ished by ifi:;; the last volume. X. will follow probably quicker than its predecessors pred-ecessors The dictionary Is such as no other nation eun show. It Is the product of the conildm-d, systemized labor and intelligence of scholars throughout the English-speaking world, and It would be unfair to compare It with the remarkable re-markable single-handed achievements of Individuals, like Dr. Johnson, Noah Webster. Jakob Grimm or Lifre. Neither can it be compared with tho slow-moving, neer-endlnc dirtiomu-y of the Academy Franchise, for that alms 01 be only n criterion of taste I THE GREAT ENGLISH DICTIONARY. DICTION-ARY. It is gratifing to learn that the completion of that tremendous enterprise, enter-prise, the "New Fnglish Dictionary on Historical Principles," which Sir Jas A. H. Murray has been editing and the Clarendon Press at Oxford pi luting, lut-ing, is so near at hand that the editor edi-tor is considering the problem of what to d with the enormous mass of |