WORKS ON LANGUAGE. 47 



Trench (R. C.) continued. 



to show how slight and subtle, while yet most real, these changes 

 have often been, to trace here and there the progressive steps by 

 which the old meaning has been put off and the new put on the 

 exact road which a word has travelled. The author thus hopes to 

 render some assistance to those who regard this as a serviceable dis- 

 cipline in the training of their cnvn minds or the minds of others. 

 Although the book is in the form of a Glossary, it will be fottnd as 

 interesting as a series of brief well-told biographies. 



ON SOME DEFICIENCIES IN OUR ENGLISH DICTION- 

 ARIES : Being the substance of Two Papers read before the 

 Philological Society. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 

 8vo. 3-y. 



The following are the main deficiencies in English dictionaries pointed 

 out in these Papers, and illustrated by an interesting accumulation of 

 particulars : /. "Obsolete words are incompletely registered" II. 

 " 'Families or groups of words are often imperfect." III. "Much 

 earlier examples of the employment of words oftentimes exist than 

 any which are cited, and much later examples of words n<nv 

 obsolete." IV. "Important meanings and uses of words are passed 

 over. " V. ' ' Comparatively little attention is paid to the distinguish- 

 ing of synonymous words." VI. "Many passages in our literature 

 are passed by, which might be carefully adduced in illustration of 

 the first introduction, etymology, and meaning of words." VII. 

 " Our dictionaries err in redundancy as well as defect." 



Wood. Works by H. T. W. WOOD, B.A., Clare College, 

 Cambridge : 



THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH AND 

 FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH 

 CENTURY. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. 



This Essay gained the Le Bas Prize for the year 1869. Besides a 

 general Introductory Section, it contains other three Sections en 

 " The Influence of Boileau and his School ; " "The Influence of 

 English Philosophy in France;'* "Secondary Influences the 

 Drama, Fiction" etc. Appended is a Synchronological Table of 

 Events connected with English and French Literature, A.D. 1700 

 A.D. 1800. 



