“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’ Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular stress on definitions.”—Nation.
“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the ‘Lycidas,’ and we have only
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“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
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Lodge, Henry Cabot. Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–34821.
The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United States at Algeciras, etc.