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Farmer, ed. a Dictionary of Slang. His poems, which include Hospital Rhymes, London Voluntaries, The Song of the Sword, For England's Sake, and Hawthorn and Lavender, are very unequal in quality, and range from strains of the purest music to an uncouth and unmusical realism of no poetic worth.
The first was a middle-aged, scholarly man, who was seated at a table with a Webster's Dictionary and a sheet of paper before him. "Well, what luck to-day, Mr. Mowzer?" said the Superintendent. "Three or four only," said Mr. Mowzer. "Will you hear 'em now now I'm here?" We all nodded. "Don't you see Webster ers in the words center and theater?
A great library is the scholar's dictionary not to be read through, but to enable him to put his finger on the fact he wants, just when it is wanted. A knowledge of some at least of the foreign languages is indispensable to the skilled librarian.
The Italian school, established by Corelli, appears to have been the only original school. Its pupils scattered to various parts of Europe, and there established other schools. To illustrate this statement, we will follow in a direct line from Corelli, according to the table given in Grove's Dictionary.
He must have been a man of some education, since we hear of a Latin-English Dictionary of his composition, though there seems some uncertainty as to whether it ever got beyond the initial stage of MS.; and his son William was early in life bound 'prentice to a silversmith named Gamble, his business being to learn the graving of arms and ciphers upon plate.
He is pronounced by a writer in Smith's "Dictionary" to have been "among the very greatest men of antiquity." It is to-day called Cadiz, but anciently was known as Erythia, Tartessus, and Gades. She was divorced from Dolabella in 44 B.C., gave birth to a son soon afterward, and died in the same year.
His air, however, was that of preoccupation rather than deliberation: one might have said that he had "something on his mind." Presently he said: "What is a 'machine'? The word has been variously defined. Here is one definition from a popular dictionary: 'Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect produced. Well, then, is not a man a machine?
Ernest thanked the Doctor, and in the forenoon went up with his new class. He felt rather ashamed at finding himself among so many little boys, and still more at the bungling, hesitating way in which they said their lessons. They were just beginning Caesar. He found that he could quickly turn it into English, but he took his dictionary that he might ascertain the exact meaning of each word.
The Brothers Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, were very learned German scholars who lived during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were both professors at the University of Gottingen, and published many important works, among them a famous dictionary.
My donkey was killed by the railroad cars the other day, and he gave just seventeen groans before he died. I shall have luck to-day. We refrain from writing the exclamation the contadino prefaced his remarks with, for fear the reader might have a good Italian dictionary an article, by the way, the writer has never yet seen.
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