| Show I BOOKS I The fh Ih that t volume of o the thC new of or ortho tho the Dictionary of lr National Biography was teas published hel simultaneously ItIl In III Eng England land hand and America March 10 the ho Mac Muc company being tho the American it Is promised that u note new volume will each cuch month until the 22 2 volumes 1 s are out ont The urIt Inal edition wits was In lit CS volumes and was published at morn moio inane than three times the price of the tho ent edition Furth the th 1 now new edition hns hlll been cor car corrected reeled rl etc lurid tone sum of the th huyo been cen Il so o that In spite of ot the UIO Inner r price U IL Is IM hIe on account of o and the th amount ut ot shelf shet room roost required to 10 the thu original issue Some statistics complied compiled by b tho the pub puh publishers lishers exhibit In Impressive fashion the tho magnitude of ot this work the greatest publishing enterprise It II hOB has been beell said ever undertaken nn without state site subvention subvention tion Tho Thu total number er of or pages Is 30 God and tho tin total number of ot separate articles article Tho The total number of contributors Is about It Is believed that practically l every cory name namo of Import Importance Importance ance unco In the tho history of ot England I has hns liNn been Included and on l In fn n a great at number ot of o In Instances Instances stances the dictionary is tho oho final tile bio biographical graphical authority While the tho average length of an article is only a It little more inure than Ihan ono halo page pato there thero ni ant 1111 s many full rull and exhaustive monographs which rank runk anions among standard biographies 1 In English literature litera lure Indeed tho length of or some somo of ot the tho moat Important articles such suell nH nut those i on o n itic eaN Queen Elizabeth 1 Milton Sir Sh Walter Scott tho the Duko Duke of M nt Wellington and Queen Victoria Is IK less than that of or an all average overage In Ih n the English Men of or Letters I Sarles A Ahi AI 1 1st hi st of ot the tho more S I s from train whence litter I nan has been derived Is appended to tn cry Ory ry memoir und and thebe taken to together gather gether constitute a 11 practically exhaustive tive tivo bibliography of or English biography Tho exhaustive character of ut tho the dic dle dictionary nay may bo ho Judged ld from tho the tact fact I that It contains biographies hlo of ot MS 1 per Iler persons persons I sons bearing the till Smith t Smyth m th or 01 u Smythe Su t c and of I t e bearing bearing tho the Jones Stewart Steward Stewart or Stuart is tho title of memoirs Hamilton of or memoirs Broun Brown or of ot Hi Clark Clarko Clunk Clerk or nr Clerks of lOG Moore jooro Moor Moore Matte or More Mole of at 83 88 S Taylor lor Cot or III Taylor lI lol of 86 SO Douglas or cl Douglass of 85 Scott or Scot of 83 Grey ay or UI elroy of ot SU Si 81 Williams of 81 Gordon GUllion of W Wilson on or 01 of SO 80 Thompson Thom Thant Thomson son Mon or of 79 iP Camp Campbell bell lieU of or 76 Murray nt of 72 7 or Davis Da Davis Davis vis of 73 13 Howard of 67 and anti of 63 65 Thule Thero arc tiro mimes c with the Ihl prefix Mac 1111 mutes 1111 begin helln beginning fling ning with the tho 0 O mid begin beginning ning with the thc |
