secondly by the other fact that the rise of the modern languages and increasing intercourse with the Continent made Latin no longer sufficient as a common medium of international communication. The consequences of the Renascence and of the New Learning of the sixteenth century appear in the need for the Dictionaries of Hard Words at the beginning of the seventeenth; the literary polish of the age of Anne begat the yearning for a standard dictionary, and inspired the work of Johnson; the scientific and historical spirit of the nineteenth century has at once called for and rendered possible the Oxford English Dictionary. Thus the evolution of English Lexicography has followed with no faltering steps the evolution of English History and the development of English Literature. FOOTNOTES: [1] Thus the first six Latin words in A glossed are _apodixen_, _amineæ_, _amites_, _arcontus_, _axungia_; the last six are _arbusta_, _anser_, _affricus_, _atticus_, _auiaria_, _avena_; mostly 'hard' Latin it will be perceived. The Erfurt Glossary is, to a great extent, a duplicate of the Epinal. [2] Thus the first five Latin entries in ab- are _abminiculum_, _abelena_, _abiecit_, _absida_, _abies_, and the last five _aboleri_, _ab borea_, _abiles_, _aborsus_, _absorduum_. To find whether a wanted word in ab- occurs in this glossary, it was necessary to look through more than two columns containing ninety-five entries. [3] An important collection of these early beginnings of lexicography in England was made so long ago as 1857, by the late distinguished antiquary Thomas Wright, and published as the first volume of a Library of National Antiquities. A new edition of this with sundry emendations and additions was prepared and published in 1884 by Professor R.F. Wülcker of Leipzig, and the collection is now generally referred to by scholars in German fashion under the designation of Wright-Wülcker. [4] This is the primary reason why in Middle and Modern English, unlike what is found in German and Dutch, the terms of culture, art, science, and philosophy, are of French or, through French, of Latin origin. The corresponding Old English terms were forgotten during the age of illiteracy, and when, generations later, the speaker of English came again to deal with such subjects, he had to do like Layamon, when he knew no longer _tungol-croeft_, and could refer to it only as 'the craft ihote _astronomie_ in other kunnes speche.' [5] Also _Medulla Grammaticae_, or usually _Grammatice_. [6] At the end is an alphabetical list of adjectives; extending from lf. 79a, col. 2, to 83a, foot.