The Washington times., 1922-06-25

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College Standard Dictionary" of
the English language. hardly
time enough In which to dis
coyer even approximately its
many advantages over the die
tionaries we are wont TO use-on
those rare occasions when We
use one.
Then we went out Of our room
TO obtain q pair Of scales with
which to weigh the book. our In
tention being to verify the pub
fishers statement that It weighed
six pounds. and ON our return the
dictionary had disappeared. Divers
alarums and excursions even
tually revealed that the managing
editor had exercised the right Of
prtmogeniture or eminent domain
or something like that. had beat
the theatrical editor by a matter
OF seconds. and had the book
under lock and key in his desk.
And we are unconsolable.
Since this piracy occurred, the
NJ. e. has permitted us to examine
this dictionary--in his preeence.
Besides finding In It some few
words with which we were en-
tirely unfamiliar (no reflection
upon our erudition. az the book
contains 100000 defined terms) ws
announce to all and sundry that
II has 1.s2s pages. $500 iliustra-
tions, and covers the field u
academic English.
Nor is the colloquial. language
Of the day neglected. Side by
side with the most classic of
terms Il gives the. latest and
most expressive Of modern idioms.
Also II contains . biographical
dictionary. q dictionary Of class-
ical. NEUROLOGICAL. and Biblical
terms, q technical and scientific
reference work, and an exhaus-
tive gazetteer. In short. It h
everything that q thoroughly up
to-date and comprehensive dc
tionary should be.
Also its facts are right down.
to-the-minute. II gives. We note.
the date Of the election Of Pope
Plus XII. Of the signing Of the
various treaties at the Conference
on the Limitation of Armament,
and Of the death Of shacklston.
the Arctic explorer And we find
also. under proper names. Amer
ongen. Michael Collins. Gandhi.
and Achiiie Ratti. persons and
places but recently come to
notice in the public prints.
Other good features tncorpor.
ated in the book ara O List Of
words that should be written
with capital letters. prefixes and
suffixes treated In alphabetic
place. etymologies given after def.
initions. all words Of foreign
origin transliterated. the double
hyphen used to distinguish
hyphenated compound words from
the ordinary syliabic divisions,
and a large number of entries
scattered throughout the volume
under the head Of faulty diction.
Altogether. q dictionary We
gladly recommend to anyone
in need Of such q book--and who
Is not? .-...
M MORGAN GIBBONS The
Pharisees" Doubleday, Page
q Coz is a story Of the contrast.
ing careers Of two welshmen
bearing the Biblical appeliations
Of David and Adam. Al parties
of the second part there are two
young women, also Welsh.
David IL the weak brother.
Starting out well enough, he
undergoes process Of steady
disintesration, fitting one woman
to marry another, and % pro.
gressing to downright theft, a
which. alas. he In caught. Natu-
rally, he comes to a bad end.
Adam, beginning in poverty,
avoids lifting. theft. and the
lighter forms OF crime, ana in con.
sequence his days are longer In the
land. Nor. to think Of It. does he
accomplish anything to cause the
reader to give three rousins
cheers. Assuming judicial atts.
tude. we say q commonplace story
of commonplace people.
HARRY A. FRANCK. on his
way to China to walk over the
vastness Of II and put It on paper.
writes from Yokohama OF . mean
trick time played on Harry A.
Franck. jr.. who. with his mother.
Is accompanying the author as Ear
as Picking. Young Franck was
born Of American parents on April
rs on board a British ship in a
Colombian port. 80 that by law, he
is English, Colombian and Ameri.