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GILFS, impl. 4to. xlvi and 1416 pp. in treble cols. cloth, £6. 16s 6d Shanghai, 1892 This great Monumental work supersedes all its predecessors, and is indispensable for great Public Libraries. "The last decade of the nineteenth century will probably be known hereafter as the age of lexicography. Apart from the monumental New English Dictionary, upon which Dr. Murray and Mr. Bradley are labouring with a precision of detail never before attempted, the Clarendon Press has at present in hand no less than four other great lexicographical works: Dean Payne Smith's Thesaurus Syriacus and Prof. Toller's revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary-both now nearly completed; the Hebrew Lexicon of the Old Testament, by American and English scholars, and the Concordance to the Septuagint, planned by the late Edwin Hatch-both still in an early stage. For modern Oriental languages, it is sufficient to mention Prof. Salmoné's Arabic, and Dr. Steingass's Persian Dictionary, each of which received pecuniary help from the Secretary of State for India. And now we are promised a new Chinese-English Dictionary, by Mr. Herbert A. Giles, H.B.M. consul at Ning-po, whose name already stands on the title-page of some seventeen sinological books. The work was projected by the author as far back as 1874, and he has ben carrying it on at intervals ever since. The entire plan, and by far the greater part of the execution, are his own. But, of course, he has not disdained to utilize the previous labours of others, or to accept help from his colleagues in the consular service, and from native scholars. Two years were devoted to the arrangement and transcription of the material; and the printing at Shanghai, by Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, has taken about twelve months. It will be published very shortly, in a quarto volume of fifteen hundred pages, by Mr. Bernard Quaritch. of Without the use of special types, it is not easy to give an account of the work, as sketched out in the Preface. The total number of characters given, each under a separate heading, is 13,848, every one numbered for the purpose easy reference by means of the Radical Index. It appears that the famous lexicon which passes under the name of Kang Hsi contains more than forty thousand characters, but we are assured that a Chinese newspaper can be printed with a fount of six thousand. Each character is marked with another number denoting its "tone" in Pekinese, followed by its romanisation in no less than nine dialects, and also in the languages of Korea, Japan, and Annam. Opposite the character are given its various meanings, without any attempt to trace the original etymology or the subsequent derivations. Then come illustrative entries, arranged in the same order as the meanings, which have purposely been collected both from books and from conversation; for Mr. Giles maintains that there is no real distinction between classical and colloquial Chinese. Some phrases are purposely given in wrongly written forms, because such forms happen to be in common use. A large number of entries have been introduced to illustrate the best and highest planes of Chinese thought. Others, as affording glimpses into political, commercial, and social life. Proverbs, household words, and even nursery rhymes, occur among the hundred thousand examples which go to make up this book. Even a general reader might find it not without interest to glance through the entries under the characters for wine, doctor, crime or punishment, drunk, to gamble, &c." All the entries are translated into English, upon the accuracy of which Mr. Giles admits that the value of the entire work depends. After an interesting discussion upon the absence of grammar in Chinese--or at least upon the uselessness of any grammatical rules that have been laid down by European scholars-the Preface ends with a dedication to " the honour and advancement of the British consular service."—Academy, November 19th, 1892. |