Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-10-02
ARiHONA JOURNAL-MINER
WEDNESDAY........CCT2, ?, 1895
THE STANDARD DICTIONARY
A Book Which is Invaluable for Refer ence. Being a Dictionary and
 EnCyclopcdia.


 The Funk & Wagnslls Company, of New York, have recently pub lished a lexicon called "The Standard Dictionary" a copy of which has been received at this office, which in many respects is superior to any thing of the kind published. There are so many original features in this new work, that 1t is impossible, in a brief newspaper article, to mention them all. Those engaged in its compilation have left the old beaten trail of dictionary makers, and have succeeded m getting up a work which IS up to date in every respect. An idea of the immense amount of labor bestowed on 1t can be obtained when it is stated that nearly five years were required for the compile Iion of this work, and that there were engaged in its production 247 office editors and specialists, to- gether with nearly 500 readers for quotations, while some hundreds of other men and women rendered ser vice in the defining of words. We do not consider that the publishers commit any offense against good taste when they inform us that nearly Sl,0O0,0O0 was expended be- fore a single complete copy of this dictionary was ready for the market.
 As regards the vocabulSrly, which is the primary point to be consid- cred, this dictionary far surpasses any of its rivals. This will be made apparent by comparison. The full number of vocabularly terms in Wor- cester is l05,0O0; in the Webster In ternational, 5000; in the six vol tunes of the Century, 225,000; in the Standard, by actual count, 30l,S65, exclusive of the appendices, which contain 47,46S entries. While vast number of new words, which have come into general use, are inserted and defined in this work.
 It is to be noted that care has been exercised to avoid the recogni- tion of needless new terms; that is to say, words coined by the caprice or mistaken judgment of this or that author. A committee of representa- tive scholars has passed upon new literary words before they were ad- mitted.
 This dictionary contains more synonyms than any other, and Is the first to introduce the system of eY plsnation by antonyms.
 Stock dictionary quotations, that IS to say, those that have long done service in dictionaries, have been discarded with but few exceptions, and this because other quotations that serve the purpose as we'll or better have been found, often giving authority additional to that adduced in other dictionaries for the use of a word.
 There is also a drift, conservative yet real, toward the simpler forms of spelling throughout this work. In all words fully Anglicized, "e' has been perferred to the dipthong "e" anG "oe' as in Getus, homeo- pathy and esthetics.
 It might be added parenthetically here that the JOURNAL MINER has now found good authority for its orthography "Pheni1" instead of "Phenix,n for which it has been criticised by the "FeniI" press.
 The spelling of many words In chemistry has been simpliied. as bromin, morphin, quinin, sulfur. This has been done in compliance with the wishes of the chemical sec tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 In fact it seems to be as nearly perfect as it is possible to attain. While this work is much larger and more comprehensive than the other dictionaries its price is the same as other frst-class works of the kind.