5 MAY 1900, Page 25

As its name implies, the 3furet-Sanders Encyclopedic English- German and

German-English Dictionary (H. Grevel and Co., 14s.), though now issued in an "abridged edition," is no literary chicken in point of size. But as to its comprehensiveness and accuracy we have formed a high opinion, from a necessarily some- what cursory perusal,—the volume contains eight hundred and eighty-nine pages in triple columns. In neologisms and technical terms the dictionary is especially strong. Thus we find " F.T:C.D." explained, and such words as "mashed" (in its slang sense), "boycott," "boom," in the English-German section. The signs employed are extremely ingenious,—thus s. dwarf-gallows indicates thieves' slang; a cog-wheel engineering or machinery; and a Comet words rarely used.