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The revision of The Century

Not de

sired by the publishers, but

a necessity

The specialists who made it

100,000

new

entries

THE NEW AND ENLARGED
EDITION OF

THE CENTURY DICTIONARY
CYCLOPEDIA AND ATLAS

(IN TWELVE VOLUMES)

THERE is no book so good that it does not have to be revised. To this rule even the English Bible has been no exception. In fact, the better the book-the greater its permanent value-the greater the need of keeping it abreast of the advance of time. Whenever The Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas has been sent to press thousands of changes have been made in the plates in order to bring its material up to date, and now, in the twenty-sixth printing of this great work of reference, such thorough revision and enlargements. have been effected as to make it almost a new book.

THE CENTURY CO. had no desire to add a quarter of a million dollars to the million that had been expended upon the original edition; but a conscientious publisher of such a work as The Century Dictionary feels that he is, in a way, a trustee for the public,-that he is not simply the owner of a set of plates from which he can print and sell as many editions as the plates will bear, but that he has set up in the market-place a fount of knowledge which not only must be kept pure and undefiled, but must also be increased at its sources as the need of it increases. So once more The Century Co. called

on specialists in every branch of knowledge to bring up to date the reference book which since its issue twenty years ago has more and more grown to be the standard authority.

To what extent this specialization has been carried in various editions of The Century may be seen in such important subjects as aeronautics (three specialists a Harvard professor of meteorology and two practical aëronauts); anatomy (two specialists in human anatomy, two in comparative anatomy, and one in osteology); archaeology (four, covering Greek and Roman archæology, medieval, North American, South American, etc.); art (five, covering painting, sculpture, decoration, lace-making, engraving, etching, pigments, etc.); and so on indefinitely. Each specialist is responsible for all the definitions, sometimes many thousands in number, in his subject.

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In the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia.)

WHEN The Century Dictionary was issued in 1889-91, after nearly ten years of preparation, it contained upward of 120,000 more entries than any of its predecessors. To these 100,000 have been

One of the illustrations in the group covering Wireless Telegraphy. General view of the
S. S. Olympic, showing wireless receiver, or aerial, stretched between the masts.

added by the new revision. The reason for this notable enlargement
is the amazing progress that has been made in all departments of
science, of the arts, and of practical life during the past twenty
years. New sciences have been created; invention has been astonish-
ingly fertile; exploration has brought to light almost numberless
things, and all of them have been named. The "common" words
and proper names defined or otherwise described in the new edition
of The Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas reach the enor-
mous number of about five hundred and thirty thousand.

It is only necessary to mention the automobile, the aeroplane, the wireless telegraph, for the increase of "common" words to be understood. The word "appendicitis," common enough now, was unrecorded when the first edition of The Century Dictionary was issued. Radium was not discovered until nearly ten years (1898) after that edition appeared. The word is now fully treated in the new revision in an article of 1800 words.

The scholars and men of science who have been editors of special departments in this revision, or contributors to it, are actually more. in number than those employed on the original work. Every word has been subjected to critical examination by them, and in this revised edition have been incorporated the changes and additions which they recommended.

WHEN The Century was issued it was at once recognized as the
greatest of completed English dictionaries. Its editor, Professor
William Dwight Whitney, of Yale University, was the most
eminent philologist America had produced, known and honored by
all scholars as the foremost exponent of the principles of the growth
of language and of linguistic study. While The Century was first
of all a dictionary, its broadly encyclopedic treatment of words and
things made it much wider in scope and vastly more useful than any
mere lexicon.

For example, under the common word case one found in The
Century not only full definitions of that word as used in medicine,
law, grammar, and logic (with explanatory quotations), but also
descriptions of more than thirty celebrated cases, such as Brad-
laugh's case in the House of Commons; Burr's case, the trial of
Aaron Burr for treason; the Dartmouth College case, which es-
tablished the vested rights of corporations; the Dred Scott case,
which had much to do with the bringing on of our Civil War;

A total of about 530,000

The corps

of revisers larger than the original force

The Century greatest of all dictionaries