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The Book Shelf
January 8, 1930 issue

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This article presents information related to several books. "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English," by H.W. Fowler and F.M. Fowler, based on the great Oxford Dictionary and first published in 1911, has been brought out in a new edition. "English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases," by G.L. Apperson, offers the novel feature of "dated quotations, in chronological order, drawn from the whole range of English literature," accompanying the various sayings. "South and East," by John Masefield, already published in a recent collection of his verse, has been separately issued in a large-type quarto form with six color plates by Jacynth Parsons.

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BOOKS; CONCISE Oxford Dictionary of Current English, The (Book); LITERATURE; MASEFIELD, John; PROVERBS, English; FOWLER, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933; PUBLISHERS & publishing
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