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form, the Currency, the Hawaiian Treaty, 

 Memorial Addresses on Garfield, Logan, 

 Grant, and Hayes ; and several occasional 

 addresses. 



A STANDARD DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH 

 LANGUAGE. Volume I, A-L. Edited by 

 ISAAC K. FUNK, D. D., Editor in Chief ; 

 FRANCIS A. MARCH, LL. D., L. H. D., Con- 

 sulting Editor ; and DANIEL S. GREGORY, 

 D. D., Managing Editor. New York : 

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THERE are more new departures in this 

 work than in any other English dictionary 

 that has appeared in the past half-century. 

 In the arrangement of the matter under each 

 word the greatest good of the greatest number 

 has been deferred to rather than any historical 

 or logical considerations. The order is, the 

 respelling for pronunciation, the most com- 

 mon present meaning, less common uses, the 

 original meaning if now obsolete or rare, and 

 last the derivation. By this procedure the 

 derivation and antiquated definitions, which 

 are not wanted one time in six that even a 

 comprehensive dictionary is consulted, are 

 not placed where one must wade through 

 them in order to get from the word to its 

 present meaning. In the respelling for pro- 

 nunciation the scientific alphabet devised by 

 the American Philological Association is 

 used, being supplemented by a few diacritic 

 marks. The main features of this alphabet 

 are those now adopted in all scientific nota- 

 tion of speech namely, vowel sounds are rep- 

 resented as in Italian (or German) and con- 

 sonants as in English. The dictionary, while 

 recording all reputable usages in spelling, 

 takes a positive stand in favor of simplifica- 

 tion. The systematic spellings of chemical 

 terms adopted by the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science are given 

 preference over the old forms, being used in 

 definitions. The moderately reformed spell- 

 ings jointly approved by the Philological 

 Society of England and the American Philo- 

 logical Association are inserted in the vo- 

 cabulary, but the words that appear thus are 

 defined under the common forms. The illus- 

 trations in the text are numerous, and besides 

 these there are in Volume I full-page groups 

 of cuts illustrating architecture, coins (an- 

 cient), fowls, and horses, also colored plates 



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of birds, decorations (double page), flags 

 (double page), and gems. The movements of 

 many animals are illustrated from Eadweard 

 Muybridge's photographs. Many names of 

 classes have under them lists or tables of the 

 varieties belonging to these classes. Thus 

 under apple is a list of nearly three hundred 

 varieties, the size, form, color, quality, use, 

 season, and range of each being indicated 

 briefly. Similar though less extensive lists 

 are to be found under American (race), bal- 

 sam, blue, calendar, constellation, dog, ele- 

 ment, green, and many other words. The 

 defining for this work has been largely done 

 by specialists, and as a rule only a small 

 class of words, with which he is especially 

 familiar, has been submitted to each of 

 these collaborators. Quotations used to illus- 

 trate definitions are exactly located. Lists 

 of synonyms and antonyms are given for a 

 large number of words. The vocabulary is 

 very large ; it will contain over fifty thou- 

 sand more words than the six-volume Centu- 

 ry Dictionary. The compounding of words 

 has been treated systematically, special at- 

 tention has been given to handicraft terms, 

 and there are yet other notable features 

 which we lack space to even enumerate. 

 The Standard Dictionary is sure to make 

 many friends and they will be firm friends. 



OUTLINES OP PEDAGOGICS. By Prof. W. 

 REIN. Translated by C. C. and IDA J. 

 VAN LIEW. Syracuse, N. Y. : C. W. 

 Bardeen. Pp. 199. $1.25. 



THE aim of this work is to furnish a 

 brief introduction to the Herbartian peda- 

 gogics, on whose principles it is based. It 

 presents the author's views as to the modern 

 adaptation of those principles, a very impor- 

 tant point ; for while every thorough stu- 

 dent of pedagogics must ultimately refer to 

 the prime foundation the works of Herbart 

 himself he can not afford to neglect the 

 results that more than fifty years of develop- 

 ment since Herbart's death have produced. 

 The second edition of the author's work 

 contained some essential additions and 

 changes, on account of which certain parts 

 of the first edition were removed to make 

 room for the new. The omitted parts are 

 restored in the translation, and all that both 

 editions contained has been combined. The 

 subject of pedagogics is divided by the au- 



