For over a hundred years "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" has been one of the best-known and best-loved works of reference in the English language. Today's readers can browse in its pages as long and happily as readers of the 1880s did before them. But the book has not stood still for a hundred years. Although it is solidly based on the prodigious learning of Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, who first compiled it in 1870, this useful volume has kept up with the times. Ivor H. Evans, the author of this extensive revision, was for many years Senior History Master at a large West Country [England] grammar school.