February 23, 1894. 
of a word first and the other meanings afterwards, with- 
out regard to logical ordér or historical precedence; asa 
consequence of which it frequently happens that some 
special meaning stands first and the general meaning 
follows. For instance, a//egiance is first defined as ‘‘ the 
obligation of fidelity and Obedience that an individual 
owes to his government or sovereign; in return for the 
protection he receives,” and then as ‘‘ the obligation of 
fidelity in general, as to a superior or toa principle.”” The 
reason given for this arrangement is that the most com- 
mon meaning is the one most frequently sought for, a 
proposition which as regards the ordinary words of litera- 
ture we incline to doubt, as most persons who will consult 
such a dictionary as this are already familiar with the 
usual meaning of such words, and will turn to the diction- 
ary either for some rarer meaning or to trace the etymology 
of the word and the logical development of its various 
significations. For these purposes it is obvious that the 
arrangement here adopted will not serve, yet experience 
only can determine which arrangement is better. 
‘The editors are interested in spelling reform, and though 
they have not attempted to change the established orthog- 
raphy, they have used the alphabet devised by a com- 
mittee of the American Philological Association to indi- 
cate the pronunciation of words, which purpose it serves 
fairly well, though some of the vowel characters are used 
in a way that will be strange to the merely English reader. 
Scientific terms have been defined by experts in the various 
subjects to which they relate, and we note that the editors 
have adopted certain changes in the spelling of chemical 
terms advocated by the chemical section of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. The 
dictionary is well printed, as, indeed, a dictionary in these 
times must be, and the illustrations, nearly five thousand 
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