The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-05-28
SOME NEW hooks.
a New Psychological Dictionary OF the Eng
liah Language.

words composing our English tongue. no
dictionary extant can for n moment be COM
pared with the work now published in n vol
ume Of $40 pages by Macmillan Il Co.. under
tho tito Of in Evmoiogicdl Dictionary Of The
English Language 10y the Row. WALTER W.
SKEAT Professor Of Ango-Saxon in the Uni
versity Of Cambridge. Mr.. Skeat seems to have
been prompted 10 undertake the task whose
results are now before us by the same motives
which led Littr6. tired OF waiting for the un-
completed work slowly prosecuted by the
French Academy to compose his dictionary.
1t is now, rs Mr.. Skcat points out many
years since new and comprehen-
sive lexicon OF the English language
was planned by the British Philolog-
ical Society. and it Is only recently that some
homo has been held ont that under the editor
ship OF Dr. Murray. n first instament OF the
promised performance will ere long see the
light. 1t was chiefly we are told. with the de-
sign OF assisting in this national undertaking
that Mr.. Skoat began many years ago collect
ing materials and making notes on points re-
lating to etymology Fortunately for the stu
dent OF our language. the authors investiga-
tons proved so fruitful that he decided > pub
lish their collective outcome in the book before
us. 1t is modcstly offered rs preliminary and
provisional essay i'll field which tho larger
work projected by the Pathological Socie-
ty may be expected to moro fully and
authoritatvely occupy.
Meanwhile Mr.. Skeats book will undoubtedly
suncrsede all eytont English dictionaries for
tho purnoae NJ ARCHAEOLOGICAL ip,rirv Itisno.
1xe should mint ont n nronounrinp or even n
deaning levicon tho definitions hcipp piven in
the brieiest possible form. chiefly with the object
OF Identifying tho word and showing the part OF
speech. Among previous dictionaries OF ETY.
biological pretensions are cited two German
xvorra tba Etvpo,orisches w6rtarbucb dar
FnpIisbon snrocbe" nv rduard mailer and
the admirable but incon,rlete "WSrtarhuch"
bv Edunrd MNt2nar Mr. sleat oIso considars
tho rtvmolo,,ins rcvisod nv Dr MANN
Tor the late editions of Webstcr's Dictionary
usaful md cnn,prnhone;va but Worcns,er,s
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these belong to the Middle English perIod
which begins with the revival Of Eng
fish as a literary medium under the
Angevin King, and which extends from
about 1900 to 1860 both dates being arbitrarily
chosen. Middle English consisted of three
dialects. Northern. Midland and Southern and
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