Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books: A Manual for Librarians, Teachers and StudentsHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1902 - 104 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
54th congress Almanach de Gotha American catalogue American cyclopædia American library association annotated architecture arranged alphabetically atlas best books biblio biography books published Bost Boston public library Bowker Brewer brief British British museum Bulletin Bureau cata catalogue of books Century chronological Classical antiquities classified concise concordance Congress contains Continued annually countries cumulative edition Encyclopædia Britannica English catalogue English language fiction Fletcher foreign French Funk German giving Government printing office graphy handbook Harper's Hedeler Houghton important issued journal librarian liography Lippincott list of books literary logue Lond maps ment monthly names notes Paris Peabody institute library periodicals Phil public documents public library Quérard quotations readers reference books reports Richard Rogers selection small library Smith societies statistics subject index Supplement tionary tions titles United volume Wash weekly William words World almanac
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 4 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 69 - Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Containing an Account of Rare and Curious BOOKS published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing, with Biographical Notices and Prices, by WT Lowndes.
Seite 15 - The idea being given, to find the word, or words, by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed. For this purpose, the words and phrases of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their orthography, but strictly according to their signification.
Seite 39 - ... incidents ; mention of all characters and sketches of important ones ; together with explanations of allusions and obscure and obsolete words and phrases. By EVANGELINE M. O'CONNOR.
Seite 28 - THE NATIONAL DISPENSATORY: Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in the latest Pharmacopoeias of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, with numerous references to the French Codex.
Seite 37 - PROVERBS, Handbook of. Containing an entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with his additions from Foreign Languages and a complete Alphabetical Index; in which are introduced large additions as well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases, collected by HG Bohn. 5*.
Seite 15 - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
Seite 2 - ... everybody has that space at disposal. Still the point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have. We may all agree in lamenting that there are so many houses — even some of considerable social pretension — where you will not find a good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good cyclopaedia of reference. What is still more lamentable, in a good many more houses where these books are, they are never referred...
Seite 48 - LIPPINCOTT'S GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD. A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary of the World. Containing Notices of over One Hundred and Twenty-flye Thousand Places. With Recent and Authentic Information respecting the Countries, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Cities, Towns, etc., in every portion of the Globe; also the Census for 1880.
Seite 50 - ... times. It is not a condensation, but gives the exact words of the writers quoted. The arrangement is alphabetical by country, event, etc., and under place is chronological. There are numerous cross references.