re carried out less systematically and less completely. In the
arrangement of the definitions the first place is given to the most
primitive meaning of the word instead of to the most common one, as in
the dictionary of the Academy; but the other meanings follow in an order
that is often logical rather than historical. Quotations also are
frequently used merely as literary illustrations, or are entirely
omitted; in the special paragraphs on the history of words before the
16th century, however, they are put to a strictly historical use. This
dictionary--perhaps the greatest ever compiled by one man--was published
1863-1872. (Supplement, 1878.)

The _Thesaurus Linguae Latinae_, prepared under the auspices of the
German Academies of Berlin, Gottingen, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna, is a
notable application of the principles and practical co-operative method
of modern lexicography to the classical tongues. The plan of the work is
to collect quotations which shall register, with its full context, every
word (except the most familiar particles) in the text of each Latin
author down to the middle of the 2nd century A.D., and to extract all
important passages from all writers of the following centuries down to
the 7th; and upon these materials to found a complete historical
dictionary of the Latin language. The work of collecting quotations was
begun in 1894, and the first part of the first volume has been
published.

In the making of all these great dictionaries (except, of course, the
last) the needs of the general public as well as those of scholars have
been kept in view. But the type to which the general dictionary designed
for popular use has tended more and more to conform is the
_encyclopaedic_. This combination of lexicon and encyclopaedia is
exhibited in an extreme--and theoretically objectionable--form in the
_Grand dictionnaire universel du XIX^e siecle_ of Pierre Larousse.
Besides common words and their definitions, it contains a great many
proper names, with a correspondingly large number of biographical,
geographical, historical and other articles, the connexion of which with
the strictly lexicographical part is purely mechanical. Its utility,
which--notwithstanding its many defects--is very great, makes it,
however, a model in many respects. Fifteen volumes were published
(1866-1876), and supplements were brought out later (1878-1890). The
_Nouveau Larousse illustre_ started publication in 1901, and was
complete