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DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL
BIOGRAPHY INDEX and EPITOME
Edited by SIDNEY LEE.
This volume is intended to form a summary guide
to the vast and varied contents of the Dictionary and
its Supplement. Every name, about which substantive
biographic information is given in the sixty-th re e
volumes in the Dictionary or in th e three Supplementary
Volumes, finds mention here in due alphabetical
order. An Epitome is given of the leading
facts and dates th a t have been already recorded at
length in the pages of the original work, and there is
added a precise reference to the volume and page
where th e full article appears.
ATHENMZUM.—‘The appearance of this supplement to , the “ Dictionary of
National Biography ” puts the coping-stone upon a work which is justly regarded as
a national possessKHi. . . . We can, indeed conceive no volume of reference more
indispensable to the scholar, literary man, the historian, and the journalist.
OUTLOOK —‘A complete biographical dictionary, containing names and references,
to be counted literally by the t h o u ^ ^ t o § e t h e r inaccessibleinside the covers of any
other single volume. . ._ . The EPITOME is worthy of the D ICTIONARY. Could
greater praise be given ? ’
T IM E S ‘This newly-published INDEX AND EPITOME may seem a mere
trifle compared to the rest, but is, in fact, a remarkable piece of work. • • • As far as we
have been able to test it, this design has been so admirably carried out as to give the
work a real value and importance of its own.’
W E STM IN ST E R G A Z E T T E .— A volume of the highest practical utility. . .
We have tested the work by several consultations, and have found it answer exactly to
the excellent plan outlined in its preface.’
P A L L M A L L G A Z E T T E—1This final volume will convince every one of the
Dictionary’s wonderful utility, and indeed introduce the work to many who may not
be able to afford the original volumes.’
SCOTSMAN.—‘ This volume o the Dictionary will soon be the best-thumbed of
them all. Only long and frequent use upon particular occasions Mly_ trate a book
of this kind : but it needs no very exhaustive scrutiny to reveal that the EPITOME
is a work well organised, of exact learning, and of a careful compilation. Useful in
¡tself. it must largely enhance the usefulness of the Dictionary which it serves.
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