SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice suet Books of the spook as hats not boon reserved for review in other forins.] Oxford English Dictionary. Vol. VIII., " Sauce-alone—Scouring! By Henry Bradley. (Clarendon Press. 6s.)—This double section contains examples of many language sources, though most of the words are of Romanic origin. As usual, it is full of interesting things. How many of our readers, we wonder, know the meaning of the first word, " sauce-alone" ? It is a kind of wild garlic, so called because it was used as a flavouring for salads. The preface directs our attention to the word "scientific." Etymologically it means something, such as a syllogism, which results in demonstra- tive knowledge, cruititercrabs Jirorrngovids. Then it came to be used as "relating to hncrThAsi." A scientific inquiry does not mean an inquiry resulting in demonstrative knowledge, but one which concerns itself with some scientific subject-matter.
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