DR. SMITH'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'l
SIR ,—I have just read a review in the Spectator of The Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, published by the Cambridge University Press. Your reviewer goes out of his way to compare it with Dr. Smith's "familiar works," and says that the new book contains a great deal more information than they do. This is written under some curious misapprehension. Dr. Smith published two large dietionaries, one on Antiquities and one on Biography, Mythology, and Geography. An intermediate edition of each of these books was also published, and a small edition of both for use in schools. Dr. William Smith's Classical Dictionary only professes to include biography and geography, antiquities being relegated to the other book. Your writer appears to think that such articles as "Musics," " Panathenaea," "Latinitas," and " Vas " are omitted from the Classical Dictionary. This is not the case; they de not belong to it, but are treated in the intermediate volume of the Dictionary of Antiquities at much greater length than they are in the Cam- bridge book. The two smaller school dictionaries which cover the whole ground for use in schools can be purchased for 7s. Gd. each. I may have more to write on this subject at a. future date; but meanwhile I would appeal to your reviewer to compare the books
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