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OF
REFERENCE
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of
reference
published
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Oxford
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is
everywhere
recognized
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Oxford
EnglishDictionary
(which
began
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be
published
in
1
884,
and
of
which
nine
volumes
are
now
complete,
the
tenth
and
con-
cluding
volume
being
in
course
of
publication)
;
theDictionaries
of
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and
Syriac,
Sanscrit,
Greek
and
Latin,
Icelandic,
Anglo-
Saxon
(the
^nglo-Saxon
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by
BoswORTH
and
TOLLER
is
now
complete),
and
Middle
English,
and
the
great
Etymological
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of
SKEAT;
the
Dictionaryof
National
Biography,
30,000
Lives
in
30,000
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now
published
by
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Press;
the
Oxford
Survey
of
the
British
Empire
in
six
volumes;
Mr.
PcOLE's
Historical
^tlas.
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The
Concise
Oxford
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ofCurrent
English,
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containing1,071pages
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