Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-03-01
A GREAT DICTIONARY.


nails Standard dictionary, which has
so long been expected, is just received
a careful examination of il leads ii,
10 say that the time has been well
used and that it evidences that every
promise made by the publishers mas
been fully redeemed. II is indeed a
Grand book.
The first volume makes up LOCO
pages, three columns to the page, and
in its binding and illustration is 50
markedly excellent as to deserve only
the best word of commentator. The
second volume TO be issued in May,
1894, viii be slightly larger, and viii
bring the volumes up to 2,2OO pages,
containing 2s0,00O words and 1000
illustrations. The publishers claim
that ''it viii contain more than $4,000
more words than any other dictionary
in the language. The editorial staff
is made up OF the following scholarly
men: |. X. Funk, d. d., editor-in-
chief; f. A. March, LID, l.. II. d..
consulting editor; ID. 5. Gregory, ID.
d., managing editor, with Associate
Editors Denison Champlin, NJ. A.,
Rossiter johnson, Ph. d., Arthur f.
Bostwick, Ph. D., with the further
active aid Of 247 specialists in the va
rious fields Of work. As showing the
magnitude of the undertaking, the
publishers say '.the cash outlay Oh the
first volume has been $500, 0,000," and
they expect TO spend 81 900, ,000in the
completion of the work. To attempt
in brief space 10 review such book
would be folly; its value can only be
determined by experts in the varied
The proof sheets which
have been placed in advance in the
hands Of eminent scholars all over the
world evidence best what those best
qualified to Judge think OF the book.
Professor Carpenter Of Columbia
college says: at cannot fail to be a
addition to the photographic
cal material Of the language BEN
son j. LOSING says: ''The Standard
win be received with uni
versal appreciation. Hubert Howe
Bancroft. the historian says: II pre-
diet that the Standard dictionary will,
in due time. be considered superior
TO all Others Professor Doremus Of
New York college says: ~ am delight
ed with the principles upon which you
aFe building the dictionary DIR.
Gregory, ex-presidcnt of Lake Forest
University, writes: ''The work is incon-
parably superior TO the new Webster,
with which have been comparing il. =
Professor Andrew Preston Peabody Of
Harvard University says: "The Stand
lrd dictionary viii prove of inyalua-
BILE service, and will last while the
English language remains essentially |
Ii may need supplements. |
but will not need to be rewritten for
ihrce or four generations TO come.-
Professor Thomas ID. Goodell. of Yale /
University, says: .'Will certainly meet
NY daily needs better than any other
dictionary inexistence.
Professor \. II. Saycs, Of Oxford Uni
fersity. says: 1T will deserve all the !
,neomia passed upon IT," DIR. q.
Brown Goode, of Smithsonian Insti-
.ution, writes; 1T will be to words
What we hope the National Museum
viii sometime become to concrete
hings." Professor Seclye Of Amherst.
Professor Bonden of the University of
Dublin, Professor Hunt of Princeton.
md host of Others eminent in litera-
ure have given il their unstinted
,raise, both for the wide scope and
OF the work and for its adj
nirable methods.
The richness of the vocabulary will
,e best shown in the statement of the
that 1.-The following actual
cunt of the words and phrases re-
oried under the letter a win show to
What proportions the language has
-rown: johnson dictionary, total
erms in A. 2,ss6; Worcester diction-
.ry, total terms in A. $3.50; Stormonth
dictionary, total terms in A. 1862:
international dictionary.
otal terms in A, s.3js; Century die
ionary, total terms in A, 1851: The
dictionary, total terms in A,
9.736. The full number OF words
nd terms in these dictionaries for the
ntire alphabet is as follows; johnson.
>, 200; Stormonth. $4,000; Worcester,
05. .000; Webster (InternationaD 1851
90; Century, (six volumes, completel, Z
$1,000; Standard, nearly 800, ,000." In
living definitions to terms used in art,
cience, handicraft, religious denomi-
etc, experts in these several
ields have been consulted upon the
principle that the people to whom a !:
erm more especially belongs should /,
ave the right to say what they mean
Then they use that term. That there
J drift, conservative vet real, toward
he simpler forms Of spelling has been /
throughout the work. In ,
II F..TN.- -.