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SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY-Edited by Philip Van Doren -Random House ($3.50). Generous, nicely packaged, freshly kept sample comprising about one-eighth of the English Opium-Eater's 17-vol. works...
...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
Turning to America, we find in Dialect Notes (Publications of the American Dialect Society), Vol. 1, Pt. 5, p. 232: "the ve'y spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission...