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5.-Subscriptions may commence at any date, and are payable in advance at any of the Railway Book 6.-Messrs. W. H. SMITH & SON beg to impress upon their Library Subscribers the fact that, to insure the supply of the number of volumes desired, it is necessary, in all cases, to give a list comprising at least twice as many titles of works as they wish to exchange.

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TERMS for SPECIAL TRAVELLING SUBSCRIPTIONS, Lists of Books in Circulation, or any other information, can be obtained at any of the Railway Bookstalls, or at 186 Strand, London.

A Catalogue of Surplus and New Books, offered at greatly reduced prices, is published Monthly, and can be had upon application at the Bookstalls.

THE CENTURY DICTIONARY.

AN ENCYCLOPÆDIC LEXICON OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

IN 24 MONTHLY PARTS, PRICE 10S. 6D. EACH. Part I. Ready in October.

When completed the work will form Six Volumes, price £2 28. each.

From "THE ATHENEUM," June 22nd, 1889.

"The general plan of the 'Century Dictionary' has been to furnish a complete Vocabulary of English words and phrases, particularly of terms used in the various sciences and in all branches of business, not excluding, though carefully discriminating, colloquialisms, Anglicisms, Americanisms, slang, and such foreign words as are in popular or technical use; to carefully define and illustrate by abundant citations from the whole range of English literature the different meanings of each word; to furnish etymologies which shall represent the most recent results of philological research; to take an advanced ground in orthography and pronunciation; to give full lists of synonyms

and indicate their proper use; to give more fully than has hitherto been done the proper combination, in special phrases, or prepositions with verbs and adjectives, and of nouns with their appropriate verbs; to furnish a large number of carefully-executed illustrations and diagrams which shall really assist the reader to an understanding of the text; to provide, not only a lexicon, but an encyclopædia, by adding to the formal definitions of a large number of scientific and other terms general explanations of the facts or objects of which they are the names; in short to produce an encyclopædic dictionary which shall meet the wants of all classes."

A LIBRARY IN ONE BOOK.

Purchasers of this Dictionary will obtain a reference library which does away with a great number of other books. They will have—

1. A COMPLETE DEFINING DICTIONARY OF 7. A

DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS,
GIVING THE RESULT OF THE VERY
LATEST THOUGHT IN EVERY DEPART
MENT OF
AS
BIOLOGY,
BOTANY, ZOOLOGY, MINERALOGY, PHY-

SICS, ETC.

SCIENCE,

8. A DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE, SURGERY, PHYSIOLOGY, ANATOMY, ETC.

9. A DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGICAL TERMS. 10. A DICTIONARY OF ART AND ARCHEOLOGY, MYTHOLOGY, SCULPTURE, MUSIC, ETC., EXQUISITELY ILLUSTRATED.

11. A LAW DICTIONARY.
12. A

STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK OF
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND PHILOLOGY.
13. A DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS.
14. A TREASURY OF QUOTATIONS.

The Binding of the Sections, twenty-four of which will complete the work, will be strong, durable, and tasteful, and it is intended that these sections shall form a handy working edition of the Dictionary. They can afterwards be bound into six volumes-four sections to a volume -if the purchaser desires, but the rebinding is not absolutely necessary as in the case of ordinary books issued in parts. The retail price of the parts is 10s. 6d. The Sections will be issued monthly, the volumes about once in four months.

For Particulars and Prospectuses apply to

T. FISHER UNWIN, 11 Paternoster Buildings, Paternoster Sq., London, E.C.

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

A Monthly Review. Edited by JAMES KNOWLES.

Contributions by the following eminent writers have appeared in its columns :

| Rev. Sam. A. Barnett.
Earl Cowper.

Sir Julian Goldsmid.
Aubrey de Vere.
Samuel Smith, M.P.
Geo. W. E. Russell, M.P.
George Howell.
Count Conestabile.
F. W. Rowsell, C.B.
W. S. Lilly.
Lord Bury.

Capt. Hozier.

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