9. 8vo.

_Tennyson._--Concordance to the works of Alfred Tennyson,
Poet Laureate. London, 1870. "The Holy Grail," etc., is
indexed separately.

---- An Index to "In Memoriam." London, 1862.

* * * * *

_Costume._--A Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress,
including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the
Continent.... By James Robinson Planche, Somerset Herald.
London, 1876-79. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I. Dictionary. Vol. II.
General History of Costume in Europe.

_Councils._--Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating
to Great Britain and Ireland. Edited after Spelman and
Wilkins, by Arthur West Haddan, B.D., and William Stubbs,
M.A. Oxford, 1869. Vol. II. Part I. 1873. Vol. III. 1871.
8vo.

---- England's Sacred Synods. A Constitutional History of
the Convocations of the Clergy from the earliest Records of
Christianity in Britain to the date of the promulgation of
the present Book of Common Prayer, including a List of all
Councils, Ecclesiastical as well as Civil, held in England
in which the Clergy have been concerned. By James Wayland
Joyce, M.A. London, 1855. 8vo.

_Dates._--See _History_.

_Dictionaries._

(_English._)--One of the most useful English Dictionaries is
the "Imperial Dictionary" by Ogilvie, which has been edited
with great care by Charles Annandale.[16] The vocabulary is
very full, the etymology is trustworthy, and the definitions
are clear and satisfactory. The engravings which are
interspersed with the text are excellent, and greatly add to
the utility of the Dictionary.

For years preparations have been made for a Standard English
Dictionary, and at last the work has been commenced under
the able editorship of Dr. James A.H. Murray. In 1857, on
the suggestion of Archbishop Trench, the Philological
Society undertook the preparation of a Dictionary, "which by
the completeness of its vocabulary, and by the application
of the historical method to the life and use of words, might
be worthy of the English language and of English
scholarship." The late Mr. Herbert Coleridge and Dr.
Furnivall undertook the editorship, and a large number of
volunteers came forward to read books and extract
quotations. Mr. Coleridge died in the midst of his work, an