DICTIONARIES
THE NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY (MURRAY'S) Unfinished: to have ten volumes, of which nine have now been published. This gives the history of each word for the last seven hundred years, with copious quotations, dated, to show the changes in its use.
THE CENTURY DICTIONARY, CYCLOPEDIA OF NAMES, AND ATLAS New edition, 1911, in twelve volumes. This has fuller information about the meanings of the words than is usually found in a dictionary.
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY (WEBSTER'S) New edition, 1910, enlarged, with copious and exact etymologies.
ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES A standard book of synonyms.
FERNALD, ENGLISH SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS, AND PREPOSITIONS With illustrations and expositions of the differences in meaning.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Very full; highly authoritative; 11th edition, 1910.
NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA Briefer; reedited in 1904.