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JENKINS'S VEST-POCKET LEXICON. BY JABEZ JENKINS.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Boston: A.K. Loring. 1862.

A dictionary is generally referred to for unfamiliar--not for well-known
words; but it is in large and copious ones only that such words are
given, and every one has not always at hand his WEBSTER and WORCESTER
'unabridged.' In view of this want, JABEZ JENKINS has compiled an
admirable little two-and-a-half-inch square English 'Lexicon of all
_except_ familiar words, including the principal scientific and
technical terms, and foreign moneys, weights, and measures.' The common
Latin and French phrases of two and three words, and the principal names
of classical mythology, are also given; 'omitting,' says J.J., 'what
everybody knows, and containing what everybody wants to know, and
cannot readily find.' It would be difficult to exaggerate the great
practical utility of this admirable little book, in which, we have, so
to speak, the very quintessence of a dictionary given _in poco_. We
should not have looked for a joke, however, in an abridged
dictionary--but there is one. 'This Lexicon,' says its author, 'will be
found a convenient, and, it is hoped, a valuable _vade mecum_; and,
though not inspiring the same degree of _veneration_ as some of its
leviathan contemporaries, may possibly occupy a place much nearer the
heart, viz., in the heart-pocket.' Let us not forget, by the way, to
mention that S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE has indorsed this little work as one of
the most important and useful publications of the day.

INSIDE OUT. A Curious Book by a Singular Man. New York:
Miller, Mathews & Clasback, 767 Broadway. Boston; A.K. Loring.

The first instalment of the promised oddity of this work occurs in the
first page--in fact, several pages before it--in the assertion that
'this work is respectfully dedicated to the first young lady who can
truthfully assert that she has read from title page to colophon WITHOUT
SKIPPING. Such is the determination of the author.'

It is needless to say that the determined author has hit upon a
tolerably effectual means of securing a few lady readers. As for the
work itself, it is, with more eccentricity of thought and less
familiarity with composition than we should anticipate in a bad one. It
is bold, rather sensational, involving a high-pressure murder and the
somewhat _connu_ father-in-difficulties with a daughter, but
interesting, and on the whole like