LA GRANDE ENCYCLOPIDIE; BROCKHAUS, KONVERSATIONS-LEXIKON Both copious and authoritative.
ALLUSIONS AND QUOTATIONS
CRUDEN'S CONCORDANCE An index to every word in the Bible.
BARTLETT'S CONCORDANCE TO SHAKESPEARE An index to every word in Shakespeare.
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS An index to a very large number of the quotations most frequently met with.
BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE This explains a great quantity of common allusions in words and phrases.
DICTIONARIES OF PROPER NAMES
CENTURY CYCLOPEDIA OF NAMES This includes not only names of real persons, but also those of many famous characters in fiction.
LIPPINCOTT'S UNIVERSAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY Revised edition. Confined to English biography, and to persons dead at the dale of publication of Supplement (1909). The articles are full, and of the highest authority. In the index and epitome is a convenient summary of dates and facts.