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YOUNG'S ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE. INVALUABLE AID IN THE STUDY OF EITHER VERSION OF THE BIBLE. Fourth Revised Edition.

2000 Corrections and Additions not to be found in the American Reprint

DR. PHILIP SCHAFF VERIFIES THESE CORRECTIONS.

Messrs. I. K. Funk & Co.

AMERICAN BIBLE REVISION COMMITTEE,
42 Bible House, N. Y., June 22, 1881.

Dear Sir:-I have at your request examined personally myself, and had two literary friends examine, the proof slips of corrections of Young's "Analytical Concordance to the Bible," and a comparison of the fourth edition with the first has convinced us that all these corrections have been made in the plates of the fourth edition (1881). Some of these changes are corrections of typographical errors, or the errors of copyists; others are the insertions of im portant references omitted from the first edition. It is no wonder that, in a work covering many thousands of references, there should have appeared in the first edition so many errors and defects; the wonder is rather that there are no more.

I am glad to bear this testimony as an act of justice to Dr. Young, who has spent so many years of self-denying labor upon this work, and has made it by far the most complete Concordfance in the English or any other language. PHILIP SCHAFF.

FUNK & WAGNALLS, 10 & 12 Dey St., New York.

17,000 Quotations-50,000 Lines of Concordance.

A MOST VALUABLE REFERENCE BOOK.

What Representative Men Say:

Hon. Samuel J. Randall, Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, writes from Washington under date of January 7:

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"Enclosed find check for copy of Cyclopædia of Quotations.' I am much pleased with it. I consider it the best book of quotations which I have seen."

Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, M. C., writes:

"In relation to the Cyclopædia of Quotations,' I desire to express my sincere thanks to you and to the authors of this admirable publication. The labor bestowed must have been immense, and the result is a work indispensable to authors, scholars and speakers. The completeness of the indices is simply astonishing; and altogether the design is so well executed as to leave nothing to be desired on the part of those who may have occasion to find or verify a quotation. And who is there who has not such need?" New York, Jan. 3, 1882.

Mr. Jas. E. Harvey, Private Secretary of Vice-President Davis, writes:"At the request of Judge Davis, I have examined the plan of the Cyclopædia of Quotations,' and have practically tested its merits by reference to original authorities. It is admirably organized and fills a void long felt by professional and public men, and even by those engaged in literature. Such painstaking and precise work as this book exhibits on every page, fairly entitles it to large suc

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Vice-President's Chamber, Washington, Jan.

4, 1882.

Maj.-Gen. George B. McClellan writes:

"It is the most perfect work of the kind I have yet met with, and I confidently recommend it as a book that should be in every private and public library."

Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds, U. S. Senator, writes:

"An inspection of your Cyclopædia of Quotations satisfies me that it is the most complete and best work of the kind with which I am acquainted. The arrangement and classification are admirable, and the book constitutes a rich treasury of gems gathered from many fields of literature. It deserves a place on every library table."

Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C., Jan.

5, 1882.

Henry W. Longfellow writes from
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"I shall often read and enjoy this 'Cyclopædia of Quotations.' I am glad to see that it is so thoroughly furnished with indexes of authors and subjects. It can hardly fail to be a very successful and favorite volume. ' George William Curtis writes:

"I congratulate the authors and publishers

on the happy completion of a work which must have cost a great deal of labor. It is a handsome volume. * * Am sure to find it a most serviceable companion."

Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D., President of Yale College, writes:

"I shall value the book for its own worth, and am confident it will be a help and pleasure to many."

Gen. Winfield S. Hancock writes:"It is a work carefully and intelligently compiled, and of great practical use." Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Jan. 6, 1882.

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Office of the U. S. Attorney, New York, Jan. 6, 1882.

Oliver Wendell Holmes writes from Boston, Mass.:

"It is a very handsome and immensely laborious work; has cost years to make it. ** I shall let it lie near my open dictionaries. * * It is a massive and teeming vol

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Wendell Phillips writes:

"It seems to contain almost everything one can need, or wish, of fine and striking and valuable thought in English and other * * It is of rare value to the tongues. scholar. and to those who have not had an opportunity to become such."

Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D., writes:

"A most valuable adjunct to the readingtable and writing-desk. It is elaborately and judiciously prepared."

George Washington Childs, Editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, writes: "I send you $20.00 for your 'Cyclopædia of He also encloses a notice of Quotations."" the work from his paper from which we quote: "This is unique among books of quotations. It is impossible to give a full idea

of this rich store-house, except to say that any one who dips into it will at once make a place for it among his well-chosen books." Hon. Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, Member of Congress, writes:

"It is a monument of labor and taste. The book has the first place in my library this side the Bible and Cruden."

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retary of State, Washington, writes:

"The authors have overcome the difficulties in the way of producing a book of useful

and interesting reference which goes over new ground in a new way. Am much pleased with it."

J. H. Rylance, D.D., writes Jan. 13th.; "I have carefully looked through and tested the Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations' as a book of reference, and am thankful to have found it so thoroughly reliable. It is the best bit of work of the kind that I know. It will henceforth be to me a friend always at hand. Such helps are increasingly needed as the treasures of literature grow, and as the demands upon a man's time multiply."

What the Press in America say:

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From New York 'Herald," Jan. 2.— "This is by long odds the best book of quotations in existence, and it may for usefulness be placed beside such works of patient labor as Mary Cowden Clarke's Concordance to Shakespeare. Indeed, it is the much more meritorious as a labor, in that it needed a thorough ransacking of the authors using the English language for the finding of its material, although many compilers had broken the ground. The joint authors, J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, are Americans, and Mr. Hoyt is a journalist. We offer them our congratulations on the taste, research and ingenuity they have displayed. The general idea of a book of quotations is that it is an easy means for the unlearned to put on the varnish of erudition; for the pretentious to keep up their priggishness; for the writer with poverty of wit to set the gems of genius in his work. Another aspect of its use is that its gems of speech, if fairly set, are always welcome. There is a difference, too, between robbing the cradle and the grave of literature for phrases between quotation marks, and acknowledging by them that what has been so well said cannot be bettered in form by the writer or speaker. It may, however, be frankly admitted that much quotation is vanity or affectation. A book like the one we have been perusing is nevertheless distinctly valuable in furnishing the man with a phrase floating in his mind the exact language of the phrase. It is not pretended by the authors that every quotable phrase in the language has been culled, but a pretty thorough overhauling of its contents has shown that without being perfect in this respect it is wonderfully full. The headings are generally well chosen, though occasionally a cross reference to kindred headings would have been an advantage. The list of authors is formidable, and the numerical strength of selections from them fairly represents their standing. To the concordance of English quotations, we give our warmest approval. There, indeed, will be found the work's greatest usefulness to the man of letters. The greatest care has been taken in the indexing, and all quotations are not only properly credited to the author, but the line, scene or stanza, and the title of the work, play or poem quoted from, are given. The book is a large, well-printed octavo of 900 pages, and will at once take its place in well-regulated libraries. At first we were inclined to resent the term, 'practical quotations,' and we are not yet reconciled to it, but practicability is the essence of the book's construction, and we only wish it had instead been called a practical cyclopædia of quotatious,'

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From the Daily "Journal of Com merce," New York: "Messrs. L. K. Funk & Co. have sent us an advance copy of their 'Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin, with a Copious Appendix.' The work has been compiled by Mr. J. K. Hoyt, who was for many years managing editor of that excellent newspaper, the Newark Daily Advertiser, and Miss Anna L. Ward, said to be a lady of taste and culture. Such a compilation cannot fail to be highly useful. Those who, like ourselves, have spent weary days in hunting for familiar quotations, will heartily appreciate the work, calculated, as it is, to abbreviate such wearisome labors; while those who wish a pleasant companion for a leisure hour will find ample entertainment in its crowded pages. It has a very copious index, on which a vast amount of work has been expended to render the contents of the book available at once to the busy student. It is a whole library in itself, and those whose means will not allow them to accumulate many books, or who have not time to consult them in detail, will find this condensed summary of so many notable things worthy of record, a most valuable treasure."

From the Boston "Globe," Jan. 8.

"One of the most valuable books of the time is the comprehensive Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations,' by J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, and published in attractive style by the New York firm of I. K. Funk & Co. There are over 17,000 quotatious, including many not included in previous compilations, and unusual care has been shown in making them strictly accurate, as well as in giving the authorship, where that was ascertainable. An admirable system of classification has been adopted, there being nearly a thousand subject-heads; and by the ful concordance, which forms such a valuable feature of this book, every one of these que tations is made readily available. The subdivisions of the Cyclopædia will commend themselves to every reader. Special mention seems to be called for regarding such characteristic features of this book as the collection of nearly 2,000 quotations from the Latin, the list of proverbs and familiar sayings in French, German, Italian and other modern languages; the department of Latin law terms, which is particularly valuable; and a biographical dictionary of the names of the 1,200 authors quoted in this work. In all respects the Cyclopædia, with its 900 pages, is worthy to be accounted as one of the great publications of the day. A monument of industry and well-directed work, marked by thorough system, this Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations' must at once take its place among the few really standard books-a volume indispensable to the man of letters, and one which should be in the library of every reader."

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