'WITHIN a volume of moderate size the joint-Authors have constructed a dictionary which is certain to come into favour with young students; for they will find in it a measure of help not to be had elsewhere except in works of much higher price and larger pretensions. The plan adopted for distinguishing the various applications of the same word is very clear and satisfactory; the care bestowed upon the rendering of the idiomatic proverbial phrases is above all praise.'

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THIS dictionary is pre-eminently practical in the best sense of the word. Omitting nothing that is likely to be wanted in the course of ordinary study, it is yet of such moderate dimensions as to be convenient for general use. It is based upon the best and latest authorities. and having been compiled by editors of the two nations, is not marred by that inequality of execution which is almost inevitable in such a work

from a single hand. We have found in it meanings absent from larger dictionaries. This applies particularly to technical meanings, which not unfrequently occur, and are here amply supplied. The arrangement of the materials is also well suited for practical use, being simple and consistent throughout. Idiomatic and proverbial sayings are rendered with great aptness and correctness. The English-German part is remarkably good. To prevent the possibility of such absurd blunders as are often perpetrated by English students in writing German, the various senses of the English word are given, with the appropriate rendering of each, whereas most dictionaries merely give all the German meanings in succession, without specifying the particular cases to which they severally apply. No one can have the least difficulty in selecting from this dictionary the proper German equivalent for any English word in any connection.' ATHENEUM.