Beginning with the Stone Axe, and primitive customs and thought 'Dr. Lynn Thornuike in his book "A Short' History of Civilization, Which Mr. Murray is publishing shortly, proceeds to deal with the ancient elelizations of the Near East, to the influence of Greek culture'and Roman lays, the eivilizations of the Far East, and so to medieval times and the present day, when science is in the ascendant.
should prove a brilliant and a satisfying volume, illuminating and authoritative, and is well ilustrated with maps and illustrations, is somewhat ironical that the editorship of the New English Dictionary, like the Oxford Chait of Englieh Literature in recent years, should have been mainly a preserve fof Scottish scholarship. Dr. Mur-Pay's appointment §0 years ago in-abired awit, who recollected the Prejudice. against Scotsmen of a Other great lexicographer, a8 wel as hin affection for Oxford and the Church of England, to suggest. an interpolation in Boswell's "Life"
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