<正> This book of a modest 228 pages touches on many more lexicographical matters than might be expected.Grouped under three parts, its fifteen chapters discuss the principles, methods and uses of diction-aries in strictly modern terms and in a controlled and spare style. The editor ought to be congratulated forthe strictest economy of presentation in a work which could have easily expanded into a bulky volume. Anaccount of English dictionaries from the beginnings to the OED, by Professor Osselton (Leiden), is in eight