One Vol., large 8vo., nearly 1400 pages, strongly bound in half mor. $5. "This Dictionary must immediately take rank as the most copious, reliable and generally useful one extant. It is based upon the admirable work of Professor SPIERS, to whose patient labors in the field of original investigation have been added those of the American editor in completing the design, of which SPIERS' Dictionary, excellent as it is, may be justly considered as but the indication. Among the important results of the labors of the American editor are the correction of more than three thousand typographical errors which exist in the Paris edition of SPIERS' work, most of which were of great importance, the addition of SURENNE's notation of pronunciation, an increased copiousness of definition in about three thousand instances, the addition of grammatical explanations, and of about one thousand illustrative clauses, and of four thousand new phrases and idioms in common use, the appending of synonymes to the definitions, which has been done in about twelve hundred instances, the insertion of four thousand new French words connected with Science, Art, and General Literature, and last, but as the student will justly consider, by no means least, the insertion of all the irregular parts of verbs, whether compound or simpie, in alphabetical order, so that a single reference gives the mood, tense, person, number, and the infinitive of the word sought. Such is the editor's enumeration of the fruits of his labors; and as far as the validity of his claims can be tested by close examination, we have investigated them, with the conclusion that he has not in the least overstated the advantages which will accrue to the French student from the possession of this Dictionary. "To give an idea of the fulness of the work:-opening it at hazard, we find on page 209 the word Douceur, of which we have the pronunciation accurately noted, the part of speech and gender given, and all the various significations of the word, from its primitive and literal sense of "sweetness, i. e. soundness, absence of sourness" to "mildness," "blandishment," "a present," and in fine through thirty-six deflections; to which are added thirteen instances of its idiomatic use in combination:-Douter on the same page has a similar copiousness of definition, added to which is a grammatical note upon its influence in the construction of a sentence, and its negative and interrogative conjugation:-To the definitions of Douteux, on the same page, are added its synonymes incertain, irresolu, with the explanation that the former refers strictly to future events, and the latter applies to persons only. While on the opposite page, we find dort put down as the present indicative third person singular of dormir, and dors as the present indicative second and third persons singular, and the imperative second person singular of the same infinitive. It would be superfluous to point out the invaluable services which such a work as this will render to the French student at all stages of his progress."-Cour. & Enquirer. "We have had some experience in testing the merits of French and English dictionaries, having cominenced the study of the French language years ago, with the aid of Boyer's lexicon, and having as we found that and others exceedingly deficient in reference to the very points on which information was most required, successively tried nearly every French and English dictionary that was published, until satisfied that Spiers' was the best. This opinion was corroborated by the judgment of the University of France, which officially adopted M. 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