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"N.E.D."
AN ENDURING MONUMENT.
peared. This volume, which is by nd means the biggest, contains twelve hundred and forty large pages: "Few people," says one of We are not likely, as had been
the sub-editors, "can have any just hoped, to
of get the Eart
notion of the toil and strain involv માદરે in the task-mental, physical, Oxford's personal memories this
On the lowest shelf of one of the and Gnancial." In one of his let- year, partly because of the ex-
bookcases in the Head Master's ters Dr. Murray writes: "Menn-
I have while to spen, all my avail- treme care with which he writes. Ofice are several very large dark abic savings and to borrow largely Morenver, the task is a large one, red volumes which the teachers fre- to keep it going." Again in an for the "Reminiscences," as the quently consult. These comprise other letter we have. "I get utterly disheartened at times with the simple title is to be, will run to almost the whole of the greatest slowness of our progress. Indeed two volumes, each of about three dictionary in the world. We still I am in a chronic state of melan hundred pages.
Lord Oxford require three more volumes to have choly about it. It haunts me awake and see the terrific struggle We are all so works constantly on the book, the complete work. Two of these exhausted with although neuritis has been keep-have been published, and the final that we have had to take a short
one is expected to issue from the breathing time at Whitsuntide."
Oxford University gave a great ing him to his country home on
press before the end of this year. dinner to all the leading "N.E.D." the Thames.
It is known as the "N.E.D.." that is helpers in 1897. In the chair was Sir Bishop Stubbs, the father of the New English Dictionary.
Reginald Stubbs, lately Governor of Hong Kong. He began his speech with the witty remark: "I cannot that table Dr. Murray said: "The
Mr. Newman Flower, long Cassell's editor-in-chief and now
This king of dictionaries was be- Over gun as long ago as 1879.
the head of the house in its forty-eight years of very hard work, say 1 lack for words to-night.". At| reorganised state, contemplates by a small army of scholars to make dictionary will be finished in 1908
a book on Beethoven. But for
an
enthusiasts, several from America and Dominions, responded, and spe containing quotations telling the histories of words and by whom they had been used poured in. When
of human
Alas pro-
And so within a few months the world will bave at last this great standard work containing not only the meaning (very often the vari ous meanings) but also the history of every word in the English Lan-
issued
with
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional
· phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.). |91-An cdible root
43-A fieres carnivore 45-Always
9-Up to the time of 147-Bravery 12-Fish with spear-likej19-Biographic
snout
3-Mads over again 6-Oriental
19-Ardor, dach 30-A fabled giant 21-Storage pit for
fadder
22-Enraptured
memorial 61-Half ema 52-Female sheep (pl.) 53-A country of 14.
Amerien (abbr)
54-Obscrved
[55-Athen
VERTICAL
23-Organ of body (pl.) 1-Solicitude 26-To adorn
27-To employ 28-Long-eared equine 30-A playing card 31-A form animal 33-Pertaining to place 37-An outpouring of
cerisure
40-A pad, as of cotton
2-Crude metal
3-Who was the Greek
goddess at vengeance? · S-Daputica 6-Distent 7-Eagle
-High male valce 10-To permit
VERTICAL (Cont.) 11-Lards (Scot.) 14-Activa
15-Small valley 17-First-class actress. 18-Flat strip of paper 23-To calm |24-Membranous pouch
26-WIED 29-Appoint
30-To state 31-Scroglia
|32-Fragrant
34-Stupid
35-Cocoanut-huak ber 36-A caward 38-Entries in an account
39-To uiter wildly 42-Freezes
44-A hedgerow 45-A color
48-A number (50-Euffix. Somewhat
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn. to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzta will appear in to-morrow's ieșuc along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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a dictionary, But then there is no at soonest, in 1910 at latest."
for the vanity the urgency of other matters, he other work of the kind to be comphesying! In 1912 the prediction would probably have gone to pared with it. The man who con- was that it would be finished in Vienna this spring to study and ceived and undertook to produce 1818. Dr. Murray, in spite of advan- and lived long enough to see the seek new material on the spot. this giant lexicon was James A. H. cing years worked as hard as ever The centenary celebrations have Murray, the son of poor. Scottish word "twenty in print., That was brought forth fresh lights on the parents. In the year 1878 he pre- in 1915. The war came and enus- hard work of the three ciltors Dr. great composer, but his letters pared and submitted to the defe-e various delays in spite of the gates of the Clarendon Press, Ox-Craigie. Dr. Bradley, and Mr. C. T. remain comparatively unfamiliar ford, sperimen articles with the re- Onions. Dr. Murray, a hero both in to English renders. Mr. New-gult that on March 1, 1879, he sign-words and deeds, toiled determined- ly on until a fortnight before he man Flower is devoted to music, | ed an agreement to be editor. He died, aged 78. As one of his col- and he is already the author of was then forty-two years of age and laborators remarked: "Perhaps no a Haydn biography which finds had already done much valuable man in Britain ever worked so hard
for seventy years as he did." acceptance on the Continent as work in connection with words. well as here.
It was propored that materials should be collected for a diction- ary which, by the completeness of There has recently been
its Vocabulary, and by the applien-
Every word has been observable revival of interest in tion of the historical method to the under
studied miseroscopically and dis- the novels of George Gissing, afe and us of words, might be sected. No word has been too in- and probably it has been helped worthy of the English Language significant to escape. In order to appreciate the thoroughness and by the publication of his family and English Scholarship. An ap-unique completeness of the work letters. Taking occasion by the peal was made for volunteers to col- let us look at two common words, hand, Mr. Everleigh. Nash has lect and send in quotations from "Point" and "Put." In geometry a paint is defined as having position arranged to give us, in a hand-specified books. More than eight but no magnitude; the New English
bundred
devotes including Dictionary
twenty-one some form, five Gissing novels.
the columns of close print to the word!
"X.E.D.." each with its own quota- They are "Demos," probably
and tion, the earliest occurrence written in 1886, "Thyrza," which
one if possible, or more, for each appeared in 1887, "A Life's
following century. Such is the in-
In the volumes already Morning," "The Nether World,"
variable rule of, this dictionary. and "New Grub Street," pos- the editor fairly started his hereu there are 497.134 words sibly the best-known of all ivan task he had no fewer than five 1,780.526 quofitions.
To undertake such a task was dar-manines who have waded to public- Gissing stories. Mr. Morley millions of them to work with ing and heroic; to carry an for soity through a welter of blood and Roberts, who knew him well, Reading went on steadily. There many more years than was anti-a chorus of. will introduce the new edition were thirty-eight sub-editors giving.cipated required dogged pluck and memorials of bronze or marble to a labour of love and those scholars would be superfiu- tenacity. Only in the first volume; "Thyrza." gratuitous services arranging 90 the high enthusiasm of so many ous: wherever the New English Dic-
tations, preparing definitions, etc. brilliant scholars who loved learn- tionary is in the home,
OR One ing for its own sake could have school, in the public library, or in All the world loves a soldier They did splendid work. whose exploits have been some-reader by the year 1888 had sent in brought to fruition such an under- the university-there is a monu- taking. The New English Diction- ment "which eyes not yet created what more than wonderful, and no fewer than 165,000 slips.
ary will be standard of reference shall o'er-read." a monument more that can certainly be said about
The main work was done in a as long as the English Language is noble than any made with hands. Baron Franciscus von der Trenck. He was
a warrior building called "The Scriptorium," spoken and studied. It will be the more lasting than stone or triple father of every future English die-brass. The New English Diction- ary is a victory of Fence, and Mur- a tin erection in Dr. Murray's gar- tionary, and generations yet un- blessed with a spirit of bravado, was lined with pigeon holes born will consult it in all parts of way and his assistante have earned with skill in swordmanship with and contained copies of every avail the world as the highest authority niches in Britain's Valhalla. Their work shall endure.-W. K. in the success in leadership, and with able dictionary in almost every of English words.
"Yellow Dragon." sentimental romance. Thomas European Language. In the intro-
It is reassuring to know that an Carlyle mentions him in his duction it says: "The aim of this age frequently branded as pleasure- "Frederick the Great" but we dictionary is to furnish an adequate loving and dollar-chasing, sceptical have hitherto had no full ac- account of the meaning, origin, and and materialistic, an age of high- count of him. Now we are to general use or known to have been single domain of philology, produc
history of English words now in living and low-thinking, has in the get the story of his life, which in use at any time during the last ed me like Murray, Bradley, was a short, if a merry one, for seven hundred years." To get the Craigie and Onions, as well as the it began in 1710 and ended in history of every word in the Eng- many sub-editors and assistants 1749. The biography has been lish language and show how these who have given us this mighty book written by Dr. Oscar Teichman,words had been used in the different of words: men who loved knowledge centuries was a stupendous under- as a lover adores his mistress, men and Sir John Murray ammounces taking, and more than once, Murray who had the necessary ches, ain and his assistants were so appalled equipment to acquire riches, win with the magnitude of the taek and fame, or enjoy cultured ease had English readers have already the slow rate of progress that they they so desired, but who turned delighted in two volumes of the almost gave up in despair. It was their backs on such alluring pros- eighteenth century diary of Par-not until 1864 that volume one con pects and unselfishly dedicated taining words down to Ant-ap- their time, talents, and extraordin- son John Bresford. A third
ary capacity for taking pains to the volume, about to appear with the
cause of learning. As Milton re- Oxford Press, is said to be at paper edition. Sincere students marks. "Peace hath her victories no least as diverting as the others. of modern English fiction have less renowned than War." She has "All the familiar features are always recognised the effort in also her heroes, those modest tire- here," we are told "the detail these novels to present the lifeless workers who labour unceasing- ed talk of food, the trip to of Dartmoor, as
ly in the secrecy of the study and Mr. Thomas the laboratory in order that human- Somerset, the Jaunts and Hardy presents Wessex in his ity may benefit by their
efforts, 'frolics' in Norwich, the kind great group. It was in Mr. men who deserve far more the title, neighbourliness of the Custaces." Arnold Bennett's tribute, "an Hero, than many of those military A little drama also comes into effort as large and as finely sus- the good person's life, and his tained as any in fiction," but nieco Nancy to whom he is much perhaps it was not, at the time, attached is the heroine of it. cheered with enough success.. Now Mr. Phillpotts himself is It is good to hear from the very much better known, thanks, Macmillans that they are to for one thing, to his plays, and publish Mr. Eden Phillpotts so his beloved "Dartymore" re- Dartmoor novels in a sciall turns.
it.
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