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IN this interesting little book Mr. Skeat shows how the past is not only at our doors, but upon our lips. Confining himself in the main to the subjects of food, dress, and the home, he brings together a multitude of facts bearing upon the history of the common objects and events of our domestic environment. The etymological bias is marked, but excusable—perhaps even inherited—and Mr. Skeat does not fail to emphasise the influence of our ancestors upon our deeds, as well as upon our words.
The Past at Our Doors, or the Old in the New Around Us.
By W. W. Skeat. Pp. xi + 198. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 1s. 6d.
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H., H. The Past at Our Doors, or the Old in the New Around Us . Nature 86, 379 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086379a0
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