Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-07-14
LITERARY NOTES

There Is perhaps no American who Is
ue'teI quallhed to pass judgment on a.
new dictionary than Charles A. Dana.
editor Of the New York sun. He gives
20 the new STANDARD Dictionary OF
the English Language" published bv
Messrs. Funk * Wagnails, the hlgi
compliment OF an exhaustive review,
from which we quote:
We have before us the STANDARD
blctpnary of the English Language. +"
published by Messrs. Funk IN Wagnalls
rms lexicon having appeared consld-
erably later than the two works with
winch alone It invites comparison. the
century Dictionary and the Interna-
tIohal Dictionary, ought to he superior
10 them in some respects, and this II
unquestionably is.
1t appears that nearly five wears
We're required for the completion OF
'hls WORK, and that there were on
gagged in its production 2i7 office editors
ana SPECIALISTS, together with nearly
SVo readers for quotations, while some
hundreds OF other men and women rem
T;ll service In the defining OF words.
we DO not consider that the publishers
commit any offense against good taste
When they inform us that almost 81
VuO'UuV was expended before n sInpia
complete copy of this dictionary was
ready fdr the market. We shall here
glance Al 1t mainly from the view
POINTS o. the vocabulary, the dennl-
TONS, anu the pronunciation, although
on other accounts the book deserves
careful examination and high praises
especially as regards the appendices
about which we shall ultimately have
a word u say.
As regards the vocabulary. which 10
the primary point to be considered
nhis i, ulctlWary iar surpasses any of It's
rlvals, TAls Will be made apparent BY
comparison. The full number OF %.
cabulary terms In Worcester is i05 O0o,
IN the Webster International. 5000.
IN me SIX volumes Of the Century o25
OVVi In the Standard. by actual count
5Ol,sb5, eNsiusive OF the appen5ic|s
which contain 47i6S entries Amonr
the scores Of thousands of words here
9ainltted for the first time in a general
ulctiohafy may be mentioned th4 fnI-
loving Appendicitis. civicism. crans
orlmlnology dellcatessen, Delsartian
electrocute and electrocutlon. errancv'
Kodak linotype, Malta, pantnta ond
popullsm. At the game time il is ~
be noted that care has been exercised
to avoid thu recognition OF needless
new terms; mat is 10 say, words coin
&c by the caprice or mistaken indr-
ment OF this or that author. 4 com
mlttee of representative scholars No.,
passed upon new literary words bef,ro
they We're admitted. Taen again ~
Judgment OF scientific specialists b".
determined the admission or reisction
OF technical terms, and, upon their "a
clslon, not a few technical terms ~
corded In other dictionaries have hter
rejected, some because they were an
sclotc and others because tbey ara ca
rarely used as to be comparnttSai,'
yaiueless. This simple general rnie ~
Inclusion has been followed. VIZ. AMI
no word found IN living book, tbat is
book read by considerable nnn,hal,
OF persons, and whose meaning ia iii,e
~ TO be sought for In an EpTIlgh a.
tionary. On the whole we ase
disposed to concur with the EnrIisb sse
tronomer, ]. Norman Lockyer. in ~
opinion that II would be difficult ~ sns,
gest anything which ought In
been done that has not been dave
10 make the Standard Dictionary s srr
:. Price, In one volume, half Russ,,
sl2.O0; full Russia silOO. In two ,,a''
umes. half Rusiia, 1890; full Russ v,-
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