The best dictionary of Latin and Greek quota. tions. Translations are given, and there is an English index.

"Such works as King's 'Classical and foreign quotations,' or Riley's old-fashioned 'Dictionary of Latin quotations,' cover a very limited field, and are hardly to be placed in the same category with his scholarly achievement." Nation, 66:408.

"Colonial edition." Lond. Allen, 3s. 6d.

Dictionary of quotations, Latin. Lond. Sonnenschein. N. Y. Macmillan, 1909. 389 p. 19cm. 3s. 6d. $1.

808.8

Main part of the work merely a reprint of the Latin section of his Dictionary of classical quotations. The appendix, p. 309-26, contains some additional material.

Ramage, Craufurd Tait. Beautiful thoughts from Greek authors, with English translations. Lond. Routledge, 1895. 589 p. 20cm. 3s. 6d. 808.8 Also published under title Familiar quotations from Greek authors.

Beautiful thoughts from Latin authors, with English translations, by Craufurd Tait Ramage. Lond. Routledge, 1895. 855 p. 20cm. 3s. 6d. 808.8

Also published under title Familiar quotations from Latin authors.

Riley, Henry Thomas. Dictionary of Latin and Greek quotations, proverbs, maxims, and mottos, classical and mediæval. Lond. Bell. 1888. 622 p. 19. (Bohn 808.8 library) 5s Oriental

Field, Claud Herbert Alwyn Faure. Dictionary of oriental quotations (Arabic and Persian). Lond. Sonnenschein, N. Y. Macmillan, 1911. 351 p. 20cm. 7s. 6d. $2. 808.8

Gives quotations in the original (transliterated), followed by translations; arranged alphabetically by first word of the original. Index of authors and index of subjects and catch-words; the latter index not very full. Includes quotations from 85 oriental authors.

Includes Ray's Collection of English proverbs, with his additions from foreign languages, and a complete alphabetic index.

Polyglot of foreign proverbs. Lond. Bell, 1889. 579 p. 19cm. $1.50. 398.9

Comprises French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish proverbs, with English translations and a general index.

Christy, Robert. Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages. N. Y. Putnam, 1905 [1887] 2 v. in 1. 17 cm. $3.50. 398.9

Arranged by subjects, giving sources of proverbs, etc., when known. Subject index.

Hazlitt, William Carew. English proverbs and proverbial phrases, collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged and annotated, with much matter not previously published. N. Y. Scribner, Lond. Reeves, 1907. 580 p. 18cm. $2.50.

398.9

Lean, Vincent Stuckey. Lean's collectanea; collections of proverbs, English and foreign, folk-lore, and superstitions, also compilations towards dictionaries. of pro

398.9

ANECDOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Arvine, Kazlitt. Cyclopædia of anecdotes of literature and the fine arts. Bost. Estes, 1883. 698 p. illus. pl. por. 26cm. o. p. 808.8

Arranged alphabetically under subjects, with an index of topics.

Scott, Robert. Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers; containing facts, incidents, stories, experiences, anecdotes, selections, etc., for illustrative purposes, with cross-references, comp. and ed. by Robert Scott and W. C. Stiles. N. Y. Funk, 1911. 836 p. 25cm. $5. 808.8 Largely homiletic.

CONCORDANCES

Concordances are useful (1) for a study of an author's use of words, (2) as an index (verbal only) to the subject matter of his writings and (3) for locating quotations. For this third use they are an important supplement to the collection of dictionaries of quotations. The most useful concordances are those that are complete i. e. cover not only all of an author's writings but all words used by him, except articles and certain minor words, and all occurrences of each word.

Verbal indexes resemble concordances and may be used for the same purpose but are less easy to use for quick reference because they merely refer to the place where

a word occurs and do not quote context. Certain author dictionaries i. e. those which are dictionaries of language not of subject matter, may also be made to serve as concordances. Examples of dictionaries

which may be used in this way are the dictionaries included in the French Grands écrivains series.

Information about new concordances projccted or finished is given from time to time in the Circulars of the Concordance society.

Aristophanes

Dunbar, Henry. Complete concordance to the comedies and fragments of Aristophanes. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1883. 342 p. 29cm. 21s. $6.75.

882 Based upon the text of Dindorf's edition of Aristophanes, Oxford, 1835, and Meineke's edition of the Fragments, Berlin, 1840. Beowulf

Cook, Albert Stanburrough. Concordance to Beowulf. Halle, Niemeyer, 1911. 436 p. 23cm. 12 m. 829.3

Based upon the text of Wyatt's second edition. Cambridge, 1898. Omits numerals, prepositions, many pronouns and 62 other common words.

Fay, Edward Allen. Concordance of the Divina Commedia. Camb. [Mass.] Dante society, 1888. 819 p. 24cm. $10.

851 7515 Based upon the text of Witte's edition, Berlin, DE 1

1862, but adds variants from the edition of Niccolini, Capponi Borghi and Becchi, Florence 1837. Includes all words used by Dante but omits context and references for some of the commoner pronouns, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions and the more frequently recurring forms of the verbs avere and essere.

Rand, Edward Kennard. Dantis Aligherii operum latinorum concordantiae; editerunt E. K. Rand et E. H. Wilkins, quos adivvit A. C. White. Ox. Clarendon press, 1912. 577 p. 25cm. 30s. $10. 851

C.

Based on the text of the 3d Oxford edition 1904. Sheldon, Edward Stevens, and White, A. Concordanza delle opere italiane in prosa e del Canzoniere di Dante Alighieri pubblicata per la Società dantesca di Cam- S 3 2 2 bridge, Mass. Ox. Stamperia dell' Università, Lond. Frowde, 1905. 740 p. 25cm. 36s. $12.

Gray

851

Tutin, John Ramsden. Concordance to Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Lond. and N. Y. Macmillan, 1900. 169 p. 21cm. 8s. 6d. $3. 891

Indexes every word in the last edition issued during Fitzgerald's life time, every word in the first edition 1859, and all variations in the 2d, 3d and other editions, forming a practically complete index to the entire work in its distinct forms. References are to edition, quatrain and line. Petrarch

McKenzie, Kenneth. Concordanza delle rime di Francesco Petrarca. Ox. Univ.

Contents: (1) Concordance to the dramatic works; (2) Concordance to the poems.

Based upon the text of the Globe edition; gives full context for each word listed, with exact reference to act, scene, and line as numbered in the Globe edition 1891. The best and most comprehensive Shakespeare concordance.

Clarke, Mrs Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden-. Complete concordance to Shakespeare. New ed. Lond. Bickers, 1889. 860 p. 25cm. $6. 822.33

Less useful than Bartlett; does not refer to line.

Furness, Mrs Helen Kate (Rogers).52 22 Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems. 2d f ed. Phil Lippincott [ 1874] 422 p. 25cm. $4. 822.33

Baker, Arthur Ernest. Concordance to the poetical and dramatic works of Alfred, lord Tennyson. Lond. Kegan Paul, N. Y. Macmillan, 1914. 1212 p. 23cm. 25s. $7. 821

Complete except for about 250 common words; in four alphabets. Based upon the Macmillan ed. (6 v.) but covers also the poems included in the life of Tennyson by his son, and in the Suppressed poems edited by J. C. Thomson. Thomas à Kempis

Storr, Rayner. Concordance to the Latin original of the four books known as De imitatione Christi given to the world A. D. 1441 by Thomas à Kempis, comp. with full contextual quotations. Lond. and N. Y. Frowde, 1910. 599 p. 23cm. 10s. 6d. $4.20. Vedas

242.1

Bloomfield, Maurice. Vedic concordance, being an alphabetic index to every line of every stanza of the published Vedic literature and to the liturgical formulas thereof, that is, an index to the Vedic mantras; together with an account of their variations in the different Vedic books. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard univ. 1906. 1078 p. 32cm. (Harvard Oriental series v. 10.) $6. 891.2

Vergil

Wetmore, Monroe Nichols. Index verborum Vergilianus. New Haven, Yale

univ. press, 1911. 554 p. 25em. $4. 873.1 A complete word index to the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Eneid and to the poems usually in. cluded in the Appendix Vergiliana. Based upon Ribbeck's text edition of Vergil 1895, but contains also the variants in Ribbeck's critical edition, 1894, and in the editions of Ladewig-Schaper-Dentike, 1902-07, of Conington-Nettleship-Haverfield 1883-1898, of 'Thilo 1886, of Benoist, 1876-1880 and of Gossrau 1876, and gives also the readings from the edition of the Appendix Vergiliana by Ellis, 1907, and that of the Culex by Leo 1891.

AUTHOR DICTIONARIES

There are three main types of author dictionaries: (1) dictionary of an author's language, giving definitions and explanations of his use of words; (2) dictionary of characters, places, allusions, etc.; and (3) dictionary, or index, of the subject matter of an author's work. The reference value of a dictionary of any of these types depends upon (1) the completeness, accuracy and information with which the work has been done, and (2) the exactness of the references, which should be made, in every case, to the particular chapter, stanza, scene, etc., in which a given word, character, or subject, is to be found, not merely to the title of the work.

Balzac

Cerfberr, Anatole, and Christophe, Jules. Répertoire de la Comédie humaine de H. de Balzac. Paris, Lévy, 1887. 563 p. 24cm. 7.50 fr. 843

A dictionary of characters; gives for each character a brief description, indicates its connection with the plot of the story and refers to title of the novel or story in which the character appears; does not refer to chapters.

This work was crowned by the French Academy. Two English translations have been published, as follows: