10 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS’ 
Crown 8vo, pp. 760, 7s. 6d., 
AN ETYMOLOGICAL AND PRONOUNCING 
DICTIONARY 
OF 
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 
INCLUDING A VERY COPIOUS SELECTION OF 
SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND OTHER TERMS AND PHRASES. 
DESIGNED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, 
AND AS 
A HANDY BOOK FOR GENERAL REFERENCE. 
By THE Rev. JAMES STORMONTH, 
AND THE 
Rev. P. H. PHELP, M.A. 
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
** This will be found a most admirable and useful Dictionary by 
the student, the man of business, or the general inquirer. Its 
design is to supply a full and complete pronouncing, etymological, 
and explanatory Dictionary of the English language ; and, as far as 
we can judge, in that design it most completely succeeds. It con- 
tains an unusual number of scientific names and terms, English 
phrases, and familiar colloquialisms ; this will considerably enhance 
its value to the general searcher after information. The author 
seems to us to have planned the Dictionary exceedingly well. The 
Dictionary words are printed in bold black type, and in single 
letters, that being the form in which words are usually presented 
to the reader. Capital letters begin such words only as proper 
names, and others which are always so printed. They are grouped 
under a leading word, from which they may be presumed naturally 
to fall or be formed, or singly follow in alphabetical order—only 
so, however, when they are derived from the same leading root, 
and when the alphabetical order may not be materially disturbed. 
The roots are enclosed within brackets, and for them the works of 
the best and most recent authorities seem to have been consulted. 
The meanings are those usually given, but they have been simplified 
as much as possible. Nothing unnecessary is given; but, in the 
way of definition, there will be found a vast quantity of new matter. 
The phonetic spelling of the words has been carefully revised by a 
