Cassell's English Dictionary, Edited by John Williams, M.A.
(Cassell and Co.)—This volume contains, it may be said, the lexical" part of " The Encyclopasdic Dictionary," and appears under the same editorial care. It claims to be "far fuller than any other compendious dictionary." Indeed, a total of 90,000 entries could hardly be rivalled in any one volume. As the editor remarks, the total is brought up by the additions in the appendix to "more than 100,000 words or phrases actually defined." At the same time, the volume is of moderate size. The 1,100 pages do not make anything very bulky or heavy. The paper and print are excellent. We notice one or two omissions in the list of "Abbreviations and Contractions in General Use." " A.S." is not unfrequently used in inscriptional Latin for "Anne Salutis ; " " Britt." should be given as well as "Brit." A more "commonly used" abbreviation could hardly be, for it occurs on our coins for " Britanniarum." " D.L." for " Deputy-Lieutenant " is un- accountably omitted. We doubt whether "Divinitatis Doctor" is Latin.
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