Sayings which range from the Greeks and Hebrews of 800 and 700 B.C. down to the present.

American ed. (New York, Macmillan Co.) has title: The home book of proverbs, maxims and familiar phrases.

A substantial reference work of proverbs, quotations, and phrases. It attempts to trace back to their sources the proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases in ordinary English and American use; to show their development from the first crude expression of the idea to the streamlined modern form; and to note the variations and perversions which have been built around the central theme.