The historical books dealing with Oxford and published by the Press include Mr. Madan’s _Oxford Books_, ‘1468’-1650, a work much esteemed by bibliographers; Mr. Shadwell’s _Enactments in Parliament_ (concerning Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester, Eton, and Westminster); Mrs. Poole’s three volumes (one is out of print) of illustrated catalogues of Oxford Portraits (all these published for, or in co-operation with, the Oxford Historical Society); and, in a lighter vein, Mr. Lamborn’s popular _Story of Architecture in Oxford Stone_ and handy guides, written by experts, to the Bodleian, other Oxford Libraries, the Ashmolean Museum, the University Museum (of Natural Science), and the picturesque Degree Ceremony (by the Warden of Wadham). The Press offers also a _History of Oxford Rowing_, and the collected _Orationes_ of the late Public Orator, Dr. W. W. Merry, perhaps the only man of modern times who could make a Latin speech intelligible to an audience of undergraduates and ladies. Lord Curzon’s work on _University Reform_ published in 1909 is still on sale. § 6. _The Oxford English Dictionary_ The work described on its title-page as _A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,_ and long known familiarly as _N.E.D._ or _Murray’s Dictionary_, but now generally as the _Oxford Dictionary_, has a continuous history of more than half a century. It was in 1857 that Dean Trench (afterwards Archbishop Trench) laid the foundation of the work by calling the attention of the Philological Society to the inadequacy of all existing English Dictionaries. He pointed out that thousands of words which had become obsolete, but remained in the national literature, had either escaped the diligence of lexicographers or had been excluded by the limitations of their plan; and in especial that no dictionary gave any account of the _history_ of words and their senses; in none was it ascertained when a word was first used, when (if obsolete) it had last been used, and how its senses had been developed.