- The Dictionary of Architecture, issued by the
Architectural Publication Society. A to Oz. 4 vols. Roy.
4to. (In progress.)
---- A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian,
and Gothic Architecture. Fifth edition, enlarged. Oxford,
1850. 3 vols. 8vo.
---- An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa
Architecture and Furniture.... By J.C. Loudon. London, 1833.
8vo.
_Arts, Manufactures_, etc.--Ure's Dictionary of Arts,
Manufactures, and Mines, containing a clear exposition of
their Principles and Practice. By Robert Hunt, assisted by
F.W. Rudler. Seventh edition. London, 1875. 3 vols. 8vo.
---- Spons' Encyclopaedia of the Industrial Arts,
Manufactures, and Commercial Products. London, 1879. 8 vols.
Roy. 8vo.
---- History of Physical Astronomy. By Robert Grant. London
[1852]. A most valuable book, but now out of print and
scarce.
---- An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients.
By G. Cornewall Lewis. London, 1862. 8vo.
_Bible._--Dictionary of the Bible, comprising its
Antiquities, Biography, Mythology, and Geography. By Dr.
William Smith. Roy. 8vo.
---- A Biblical Cyclopaedia or Dictionary of Eastern
Antiquities, Geography, Natural History, Sacred Annals and
Biography, Theology and Biblical Literature, illustrative of
the Old and New Testaments. Edited by John Eadie, D.D.,
LL.D. Twelfth edition. London, 1870. 8vo.
---- The Bible Atlas of Maps and Plans to illustrate the
Geography and Topography of the Old and New Testaments and
the Apocrypha, with Explanatory Notes by Samuel Clark, M.A.
Also a complete Index of the Geographical Names ... by
George Grove. London, 1868. 4to.
_Bible._ See _Concordances_.
_Bibliography._--See Chapters V. and VI.
_Biography._--Mr. Chancellor Christie contributed a very
interesting article to the _Quarterly Review_ (April, 1884)
on Biographical Dictionaries, in which he details the
history of the struggle between the publishers of the
_Biographie Universelle_ and Messrs. Didot, whose Dictionary
was eventually entitled _Nouvelle Biographie Generale_. The
new edition of the _Biographie Universelle_ (45 vols. Imp.
8vo. Paris, 1854) is an invaluable work. Chalmers's
Biographical Dictionary (32 vols. 8vo. 1812-17) is a mine of
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