Abstract

A New Latin Dictionary

The publication of a lexicon is so formidable an undertaking that lexicography is always more or less behind the times. This has been particularly so in Latin. The appearance of the translation of the book "Freund's Lexicon," an almost entire revolution has taken place in many branches of lexicography from the study of comparative grammar, to say nothing of better textual criticism, improved orthography, and new interpretation. The other book "Wonders of the Moon," by Améd&eacutee Guillemin. His book is quite trustworthy and well calculated to give the general reader a good idea of the structure and general relations of the moon. The translation is reasonably well made. The task of the editor has not been great, the additions amounting to a page or two of text, giving only a part, a rather small part, of the work of astronomers and physicists on the moon which has been done since the publication of Guillemin's book. A number of the excellent figures in the original work have been omitted in the reprint; those which remain have suffered dreadfully in the reproduction.