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...bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06), Schaff-Hertzog's Encyclopedia of Re ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works. Dr. Funk's guiding passion was for undertakings on a big scale with a special penchant for lexicography. When he died, he had just completed the manuscript for The New Standard Dictionary. Adam Willis Wagnalls found his forte...
...admitted to the Bar in 1877. He served as chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform in 1893; in 1906 was President of the Association of American Law Schools; is the author of numerous law treatises; was associate editor of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia; has contributed to the American Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He has always been active in M. E. Church affairs...
...University Press has published a "Sketch of the History and Organization of Harvard University" in pamphlet form. It has been revised and reprinted from the Cyclopedia of Education. The pamphlet may be had gratis on application in University...
...following books have been added to the Union Library during the past two weeks: "Moral Overstrain", G. W. Alger; "National Cyclopedia of American Biography", 13 volumes; "Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht", R. Arthur; Disraeli's Works, 20 volumes; "The Debtor", M. E. W. Freeman; Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets...
General references: North American Review, Vol. 143, P. 382; Vol. 147, p. 121; Vol. 135, p. 525. Forum VII, 678-682. H. W. Blair, "Temperance Movement"; E. J. Wheeler, Prohibition; Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition. Fernal: Economics of Prohibition; on Kansas: "Facts about Prohibition"; on Maine and Mass., "The Liquor Problem"- F. H. Wines and J. Koren...