Vol. I. Being one half the entire work, 4to. cloth boards, 2l. 12s. 6d. or, done up in Two Parts, cloth boards, 11. 6s. 6d. each. * A Part is published on the first of every month, price 3s. 6d. each, to be completed in 30 parts, forming 2 vols. 4to. REVIEWS AND CRITICAL NOTICES. "MR. PICKERING has just put forth a New Dictionary of the English Language, which, whether we regard its extraordinary cheapness, or the extraordinary labour and ability by which it is characterised, bids fair to rival all similar publications. The work is to be completed in Thirty Parts, each Part to contain eighty 4to. pages, with three columns of Diamond type upon each page; the meaning of each word is illustrated by a greater number of passages from standard English writers than is to be found in any similar work; and the reading necessary for the supply of this immense body, must have been the labour of years. A part of this Dictionary appeared, we find, in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, and was spoken of by the Quarterly and other reviews, as the greatest lexicographical achievement of the age. In its complete form it will be, to judge from the sample before us, a work of unrivalled ability, labour and utility." Old England. "The compiler, who has already approved his ability for this work by what he has contributed of it to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, justly observes, that Dr. Johnson did not execute his own project, and that the desideratum of a Dictionary to exhibit, first, the natural and primitive signification of words, then give the consequential, and then the metaphorical meaning, and the quotations to be arranged according to the ages of the authors,' is, at the distance of nearly ninety years, still more to be desiderated now, than in 1747, when the learned lexicographer made his proposition to Lord Chesterfield. Mr. Richardson |