A TAEASUAY OF QUOTA TIONS

From ''TSE ATHENJEUM/' June 22nd, 1889.

** The gênerai plan of the * Century Dictionary* has been to furaish a complète vocabulary of English words and phrases, particularly of terms used in the various sciences and in ail branches of business, not exciuding, though carefully discriminating, colloquialisms, Anglicisms, Americanisms, slang and such foreign words as are in popular or technical use; to carefully define and illustrate by abundant Citations from the whole range of English literature the différent meanings of each word ; to furnish etymologies which shall represent the most récent results of philological research ; to take an advanced ground in orthography and pronunciation ; to give full lists of

synonyms and indicate their proper use; to give more fully than has hitherto been done the proper combination, in spécial phrases, of prépositions wlth verbs and acUectives, and of nouns with their appropriate verbs; to furnish a large number of carefully-executed illustrations and diagrams which shall really assist the reader to an understanding of the text ; to provide, not only a lexicou, but an encyclopaedia, by adding to the formai définitions of a large number of scientific and other terms gênerai explanations of the facts or objects of which they are the names; in short to produce an encyclopaedic dictionary which shall me«t the wants of ail classes. "

The Dictionary will be published by subscription and in twenty-four parts o^ ** sections," to be finally bound into six quarto volumes. Although the printer hâve been engaged upon the type-setting for more than two years, the publishers hâve waited until the labor of making the plates is so well advanced that the work can be regularly issued at intervais of about one month and completed withîn two years. The subscription price is be 10/6 for each part.

The parts will be strongly bound in flexible cloth, which will bear constant use, and will form a complète working édition of the book bound in twenty-four thin. flexible volumes. They will be issued so rapidly (once a month) that the Dictionary will soon be a usable part of the library of any subscriber. We therefore renommend that it be taken in parts in préférence to waiting for the issue of the volumes.

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