THE BEST STANDARD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. CRAIG'S NEW UNIVERSAL, ETYMOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Embracing all the terms used in Science, Literature, and Art. 2 vols. Royal 8vo., 1,100 pages each vol. Cloth extra £2 2 0 Half morocco, cloth sides 2 10 0 The rapid strides made of late years in the arts and manufactures, as well as in science, has occasioned the introduction into our language of a vast number of new words, some of them of foreign extraction, others the invention of new theorists or scientific discoverers. This extension of our language has, to a certain degree, made all the Standard Dictionaries extant imperfect. A new and entirely complete work was therefore considered a great desideratum, and it has lately been completed, after seven years of hard and laborious mental exertion, under the superintendence of JOHN CRAIG, Esq., F.G.S., and Geological Lecturer at the Glasgow University. From numerous literary critiques, the undermentioned are selected as giving a fair and impartial character to this important publication. "We have withheld our opinion of this work until its rapid progress has enabled us to give it our full and perfect attention. We now unhesitatingly pronounce it as one of the best and most complete works it has fallen to our duty to criticise for many years."-Glasgow Citizen. "This Dictionary is the only one that gives the pronunciation and derivation of all words." "The work before us fills up a decided desideratum in the English language. He would indeed be most unreasonable who did not own the debt due to the author in giving us the singular information of the traveller, the deep learning of the divine, the curious play of the philologist, the succinct definitions of the mathematician, the technical terms of the manufacturer, the terminology of the naturalist, the newly formed instruments of the musician, the gentle science of the herald, and the abstruse information of the physiologist."-New Quarterly Review. For the convenience of many parties, an edition of the above is issued in One Shilling parts, published monthly. Of the edition now in progress, Part 22 (for April) is ready. Any odd parts or numbers can be supplied. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO. -་་་་་ |