EDUCATIONAL WORKS, Il 
OPINIONS—continued. 
Cambridge graduate—Mr Phelp; and Dr Page, the well-known 
geologist, has attended to the correctness of the various scientific 
terms in the book. The Dictionary altogether is very complete.”— 
Greenock Advertiser. 
_ ‘*This Dictionary is admirable. The etymological part especially 
is good and sound. We have turned to ‘calamity,’ ‘forest,’ 
‘poltroon,’ and a number of other crucial words, and find them 
all derived according to the newest lights. There is nothing about 
‘calamus,’ and ‘foris,’ and ‘pollice truncus,’ such as we used 
to find in the etymological dictionaries of the old type. The work 
deserves a place in every English School, whether boys’ or girls’.” 
— Westminster Review. 
*¢ A good dictionary to people who do much writing is like a life- 
belt to people who make ocean voyages: it may, perhaps, never be 
needed, but it is always safest to have one at hand. ‘This use of a 
dictionary, though one of the humblest, is one of the most general. 
For ordinary purposes a very ordinary dictionary will serve; but 
when one has a dictionary it is well to have a good one. That 
which is now before us is evidently a work on which enormous 
pains have been bestowed. The compilation and arrangement 
give evidence of laborious research and very extensive scholarship. 
Special care seems to have been bestowed on the pronunciation 
and etymological derivation, and the ‘root-words’ which are 
given are most valuable in helping to a knowledge of primary 
significations. All through the book are evidences of elaborate 
and conscientious work, and any one who masters the varied con- 
tents of this dictionary will not be far off the attainment of the 
complete art of ‘writing the English language with propriety,’ in 
the matter of orthography at any rate.”—Belfast Northern Whig. 
‘‘ This strikes us as likely to prove a useful and valuable work. 
i The number of scientific terms given is far beyond what 
we have noticed in previous works of this kind, and will in great 
measure render special dictionaries superfluous. Great care seems 
also to have been exercised in giving the correct etymology and 
pronunciation of words. We trust the work may meet with the 
success it deserves,” —Graphic. 
THE SCHOOL ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY 
AND WORD-BOOK. Combining the advantages of an ordinary 
Pronouncing School Dictionary and an Etymological Spelling-Book. 
By the Rev. JAMES STORMONTH. F cap. 8vo, pp. 254, 2s. 
‘¢ A valuable addition to the pupil’s store of books, and, if rightly used, will 
prove a safe and suggestive guide to a sound and thorough knowledge of his 
native tongue. ”—The Schoolmaster. i : 
‘<The derivations are particularly good.”— Westminster Review. 
