Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-23
GOOD WORK Of An
EXPERT IN WORDS
WEBSTER REVISED Ako MOO
Eahlzeo " HARRY THURS
TON PECK IN LATEST
LEXICON.

Harry fhurston Peck has just writ
ten his latest and what its publishers
believe, Is the best book Of his career
Who is Harry Thurston Peck?
II is not likely that such q question
will be asked. but for the benefit Of
the entirely uninformod 1t might be
better to explain that he is not q
novelist. although this latest work OF
his is almost certain to be a best
seller"
The book as It Is in its completion
today represents the perfection of a
ready reference work made possible
by a broad.minded and learned editor,
assisted by a board of distinguished
assistants cooperating with broad.
minded <nd progressive publishers.
Harry Thurston Peck. Phi. D.. Lift
D., LII. D., editor-in.c chef OF the New
international Encyclopedia; editor Of
Harper's Classical Dictionary; mem
Der Of the Academy Of Political
Science; member Of the National IL
stitute of Arts and Letters; formerly
professor of English at Columbia
University, and author of learned
works, Is also the author Of delight.
! full stories for children. told first to
his own little girl and later put into
writing.
One would hardly expect to find in
the same person the compiler OF en-
%cyclopdias and the teller Of children's
tales, but it Is this touch Of human
interest in the makeup of DR.. Peck
perhaps, that has helped him in max
ing the New Websterian 1912 Die.
tionary, Illustrated, lust a little DIFF.
ferent" than previous works upon
language.
AS the professor modestly admits,
the dictionary is. of course, not a
~cyclopedia, but 1t is more than a die
tionary and while not going into ex.
tended discourse on any OF its many
subjects, still there is than a
bare definition difficult to understand
By clever composition the editor has
managed to convey a broader mean
ing to the words considered than is
customary in works of the size.
Some further idea OF the breadth OF
DR.. Peck's knowledge may be secured
from the naming of a few Of the man!
books OF which he. is the author. His
work on Latin Pronunciation, and hts
book on the Latin Historians are ex'
tensively used as textbooks. His
|'Harper's Dictionary of Classical Lit
erature. and Antiquities" displaced ev,
cry other work on. antiquities and
philology. DR.. Peck collaborated
7. with Prof. C.. P. Pease of ,Bowdoin
and Leland Stanford universities in
editing thirty volumes of Latin elias
sizes. He has translated into Englisl
the first example Of the ancient move.
converted into modern sland; writ
ten the first history .of classical phil
ology that has yet been given in Eng
l!sh in a form suitable for the us,
of the ordinary college student; pre-.
pared and published as the result O.
five years work the we'll known wor]
ON contemporaneous history, Tween
lty Years OF the Republic includin,
the period from 1886 to 1905. ANON
the many other works Of. the profes
sor is a book of travel dealing witt
things as he saw them, and incidents
that actually happened, and also g
number of children's books. Nov
comes the latest and best dictionary
This Dictionary is NOT published
by the original publishers OF Web
ster's Dictionary or by their success
sOrs. ~ ~. s I
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