December, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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The Century Dictionary Supplement. 

 Prepared under the Superintendence 

 of Benjamin E. Smith, A.M.. L.H.D. 

 Xew York : The Century Company, 

 1910. Two vohnnes, ito ; pp. 1467 

 -1-9-2. 

 INIore than a score of years ago the mak- 

 ing of the Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, 

 and Atlas was hegun. After its successful 

 completion in 1891 it was our privilege and 

 pleasure to give this monumental work a 

 thorough review. The last twenty years 

 have seen such wonderful bounds in sci- 

 ence, literature, art, exploration, everything 

 in fact, that the necessity for the two new 

 volumes was very apparent, and a careful 

 and repeated revision to which the earlier 

 books were subjected, would never read 

 new material into the copies of those who 

 purchased the earlier editions. Since the 

 parent work was published a new vocabu- 

 lary has arisen. Time was when the ad- 

 dition of a word to the language was a mat- 

 ter of some note and comment, and fre- 

 (luently of protest, but in these days the 

 inrush of new words and expressions to ex- 

 plain new facts and new conditions, makes 

 it imperative for those who are well in- 

 formed to be ever mindful of the voices 

 from laboratory, workshop, and study. 

 Similarly there was a time when the care- 

 ful insertion of a few scattered items, or 

 a few pages at most, in a reference work 

 seemed all that was reasonably required, 

 but no such makeshift can now dispose of 

 the immense accretion of words, sentences, 

 phrases, and all the new knowledge regard- 

 ing which accurate information is essential, 

 which is an all-sufficient reason for a new 

 edition. The work has been done in a thor- 

 oughly scholarly manner, and the editors 

 have not hesitated to call upon various 

 technical and scientific papers for informa- 

 tion. Thus, under "turret" we find that 

 "the vertical section through a turret and 

 barbette for 12-inch guns" is taken from 

 the Scientific American. No better source 

 of information on this subject can be found 

 than the engraving made from our own 

 careful illustration based on government 

 drawings. Other things are treated in the 

 same way ; thus the submarine boat is ad- 

 mirably shown. Seventeen government ex- 

 perts were in charge of various departments 

 of this book. The book is a most sump- 

 tuous one and beautifully printed by the 

 De \'inne Press, and the illustrations num- 

 ber thousands. The new volumes add hun- 

 dreds of names, and read like a roll call of 

 the recent great who have won a place in 

 their chosen field of activity. The collabo- 

 rators of the present work number seventy- 

 nine, twelve of whom were also engaged on 

 the original work. They include such men 

 as Cleveland Abbe, Edward Atlee Barber, 

 Franz Boas, Stewart Culin, Edward S. 

 Dana, Theodore L. De Vinne, Dr. L. O. 

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 metz, Prof. Charles A. Young, and many 

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 of this monumental work, which should be 

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 has just been issued, the first having been 

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