The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-07-15
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Webster Revised and Modernilzed by
Harry Thurston Peck is the
Latest Lexicon.

Harry Thurston Peck has just
written his latest and what it's pub
fishers believe. is the best book Of
his career. 81 !.
Who is Harry Thurston Peck? !.
1t is not likely that such ques-
ton will be asked. but for. the benefit
of the entirely uniformed it might
be better to explain that he is not a
novelist, although this: latest work of
his is almost certain to be ssbest
seller" Il
The book as it is in it's completion
today represents the perfection of a
ready reference work made possible
by broad-minded and learned edi-
tor, assisted by board of distin-
guished assistants cooperating with
broad-minded and progressive pub
fishers.
Harry Thurston Peck, Phi. D., Lift.
d., LII. D., editor-in-chief of the New
International Encyclopedia; editor Of
Harper's Classical Dictionary; mem
Der of the Academy of Political Sci
ence; member of the National Insti-
tute of Arts and Letters; formerly
Professor of English at Columbia I'm
|iversity, and author of learned works,
is also the author Of delightful stor-
les for children, told first to his own
little girl and later put into writing.
One would hardly expect to find in
the same version the compiler of en-
cyclOpedias and the teller of chill
dren's tales, but it is this touch of
human interest in the makeup of DR.
Peck perhaps, that has helped him in
making the New Websterian 1912
Dictionary, Illustrated "just a little
different" than previous works upon
language.
AS the professor modestly admits,
the dictionary is, of course, not cy-
clOpedia but still it is more than a
dictionary and while not going into
extended discourse on any of it's
many subjects, still there is more
than a bare definition difficult to un-
derstand. BY clever composition the
editor has managed to convey a
broader meaning to the words con-
sidered than is customary in works of
the size.
Some further idea of the breadth
of DR.. Peck's knowledge may be Sc
cured from the naming of few of
the many books of which he is the
author. His work on Latin Pronun-
citation, and his book on the Latin
Historians are extensively used as
textbooks. His "Harper's Dictionary
of Classical Literature and Antiqui-
ties displaced every other work on
antiquities and phililogy DR.. Peck
colloborated with Prof. G.. P. Pease
of BoWdoin and Leland Sanford uni
ver.;ties in editing 80 volumes of
Latin classics. He has translated in
to English the first example of the
ancient novel converted into modern
slang; written the first history of
classical philology that has yet been
given in english in form suitable
for the use of the ordinary college
student; prepared and published as
the result of five years work the we'll
known work on contemporaneous his
tory. Twenty Years of the Repub-
lic," including the period from 1885
to 1905. Among the many other
works of the professor is book of
travel dealing with things as he saw
them, and incidents that actually
happened, and also a number of chill
dren's books. Now comes the latest
and best dictionary. *
. This dictionary is not published by
the original publishers of Webster's
Dictionary or by their successors.
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