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Page 42 - THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET, MD, FRS Recomposed throughout, enlarged and improved, partly from the Author's Notes, and with a full Index, by the Author's Son, JOHN LEWIS ROGET. Crown 8vo, 9s. net. Willich.— POPULAR TABLES for giving information for ascertaining the value of Lifehold, Leasehold, and Church Property, the Public Funds, etc.
Page 110 - The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems. Together with an ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, and a LIST OF THE AUTHORS AND DATES OF DRAMAS AND OPERAS, By Rev.
Page 13 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 95 - The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary. A new and complete dictionary of the terms used in Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and kindred branches ; with over 100 new and elaborate tables and many handsome illustrations. By WA NEWMAN BORLAND, MD, Editor of " The American Pocket Medical Dictionary.
Page 41 - Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language. Based on the International Dictionary of 1890 and 1900. Now completely revised in all departments; including also a Dictionary of Geography and Biography; being the latest authentic quarto edition of the Merriam Series.
Page 46 - DCL — An English-Arabic Lexicon. In which the equivalent for English Words and Idiomatic Sentences are rendered into literary and colloquial Arabic.
Page 121 - Vedic Concordance : being an alphabetic index to every line of every stanza of the published Vedic literature, and to the liturgical formulas thereof, that is, an index (in Roman letters) to the Vedic mantras, together with an account of their variations in the different Vedic books. By Professor MAURICE BLOOMFIELD, of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Page 51 - O'Reilly (E.) Sanas Gaoidhilge-Sagsbhearla, an Irish-English Dictionary containing upwards of twenty thousand words that have never appeared in any former Irish Lexicon, with copious quotations from the most esteemed ancient and modern writers to elucidate the meaning of obscure words; and numerous comparisons of the Irish Words with those of similar Orthography, sense or sound in the Welsh and Hebrew Languages.
Page 172 - It does not refer to constitutions, laws, legislative proceedings or court decisions, except in so far as they happen to be found in the class of documents above mentioned. It attempts, on the other hand, to furnish a list, as complete as...
Page 20 - Supplement to the List of serials in public libraries of Chicago and Evanston.