6 AUGUST 1842, Page 15

AINSWORTH'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

TILE Latin Dictionary of AINSWORTH has long enjoyed a fair repu- tation; but it is on the eve of being eclipsed by the English dic- tionary of his namesake. The accurate nicety of the definitions of this great work may be anticipated by the controversy in which the anthor has recently been engaged. If the poor were reduced to eat putrid meat, he would call that distress ; but if they are only reduced to be thankful for leave to dig up and eat the buried carcass of a cow which died a natural death, he thinks the term too strong.