braries of reference.

A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the
Thirteenth Century. By H. Coleridge. London, 1859. 8vo. This
was one of the earliest publications which grew out of the
preparations for the great Philological Society's
Dictionary. Stratmann's Dictionary of the Old English
Language (third edition, Krefeld, 1878) is an indispensable
work. A new edition, prepared by Mr. H. Bradley, is about to
be issued by the Clarendon Press.

Of single volume Dictionaries, Mr. Hyde Clarke's "New and
Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language as spoken
and written" in Weale's Educational Series (price 3_s._
6_d._) is one of the most valuable. I have time after time
found words there which I have searched for in vain in more
important looking Dictionaries. Mr. Clarke claims that he
was the first to raise the number of words registered in an
English Dictionary to 100,000.

The Rev. James Stormonth's "Dictionary of the English
Language, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Explanatory," is a
work of great value. It is so well arranged and printed that
it becomes a pleasure to consult it.

Those who are interested in Dialects will require all the
special Dictionaries which have been published, and these
may be found in the Bibliography now being compiled by the
English Dialect Society, but those who do not make this a
special study will be contented with "A Dictionary of
Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs,
and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, by J.O.
Halliwell" (fifth edition, London, 1865, 2 vols. 8vo.),
which is well-nigh indispensable to all. Nares's Glossary
(1822-46, new edition, by J.O. Halliwell and T. Wright, 2
vols. 8vo. 1859) is also required by those who make a study
of Old English Literature.

The following is a short indication of some of the most
useful working Dictionaries:

_Arabic._--Lane.

_Greek._--Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, both in
4to. and in abridged form in square 12mo.

_Latin._--The Clarendon Press publish a Latin Dictionary
founded on Andrews's edition of Freund, and edited by C.T.
Lewis and C. Short, which is of great value. Smith's
Dictionary, both the large edition and the smaller one, and
that of Riddle are goo