d in 1904 (7 vols.). This is not an abridgment or a fresh
edition of the _Grand Dictionnaire_ of Pierre Larousse, but a new and
distinct publication.

The most notable work of this class, in English, is the _Century
Dictionary_, an American product, edited by Professor W. D. Whitney, and
published 1889-1891 in six volumes, containing 7046 pages (large
quarto). It conforms to the philological mode in giving with great
fulness the older as well as the present vocabulary of the language, and
in the completeness of its etymologies; but it does not attempt to give
the full history of every word within the language. Among its other more
noteworthy characteristics are the inclusion of a great number of modern
scientific and technical words, and the abundance of its quotations. The
quotations are for the most part provided with references, but they are
not dated. Even when compared with the much larger _New English
Dictionary_, the _Century's_ great merit is the excellent enumeration of
meanings, and the accuracy of its explanations; in this respect it is
often better and fuller than the _New English_. In the application of
the encyclopaedic method this dictionary is conservative, excluding,
with a few exceptions, proper names, and restricting, for the most part,
the encyclopaedic matter to descriptive and other details which may
legitimately be added to the definitions. Its pictorial illustrations
are very numerous and well executed. In the manner of its compilation it
is a good example of modern cooperative dictionary-making, being the
joint product of a large number of specialists. Next to the _New English
Dictionary_ it is the most complete and scholarly of English lexicons.

_Bibliography._--The following list of dictionaries (from the 9th
edition of this work, with occasional corrections) is given for its
historical interest, but in recent years dictionary-making has been so
abundant that no attempt is made to be completely inclusive of later
works; the various articles on languages may be consulted for these. The
list is arranged geographically by families of languages, or by regions.
In each group the order, when not alphabetical, is usually from north to
south, extinct languages generally coming first, and dialects being
placed under their language. Dictionaries forming parts of other works,
such as travels, histories, transactions, periodicals, reading-books,
&c., are generally excluded. The system here adopted was ch