Complete and Up-to-date.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 26 February 1903, Page 15

Complete and Up-to-date.

Theie aie ten times as many sciences and ten times as many ails and trades as were known two hundied yeais ago, each equipped with a \ocabulaiy ol its own A special dictionary to each of these, though useful to him who iollowb one science or trade oxclusn el,\ , would m\ol\e a small libiary for the general leader For this purpose it is neeessaty to digest them into a single \olume ; and then, as they are almost all voids with which the ordinal y dictionary cannot dispense it seems the simplest plan to dispense with the technical dictionaiy altogether, and come at first where you must come at 'last, i c — to the really first-class dictionai.v Otherwise, the purchaser will be m danger of spending his money twice o\er, (irst for the technical dictionai.\ and thon'ior the language dictionary, of which it is a department. This necessitates the lurther lequisite that the large general dictionary should, in its explanations of scientific and technical terms, be fully up to the standard of the special one . otherwise its public will not, alter all, be independent of the lattei It is fuithei manliest that, other things being equal, this object will be best attained b> the dictionaiy undei taken on the boldest and most tomprehensn c scale With the sole exception of the gtoat Oxioid Dictionaiy, to lie completed ten >eais hence, the epithets 'bold' and 'coiuprehensue '" haidly apply to any sinulai undei t akuig except 'The (entur\, DictionaM and Cyclopaedia and Atlas ' and in this paitieular depaitinent ol sueiitilic and pia'ctical teims, coinejmg the mioi mat ion which would formerly ha\e been thought moie suitable loi an en<\cW>pacdia ' it n(.H'(] fear no competition iioni an\ qii.ntei •The Tunes' ofTei s a woik ol ](>,<•» mi panes, with 500(100 definitions, 200 not) geogiaphual and lr.onon encyclopaedic ai tides, and 80* >o illusti ations. lot a jneiiminaiy payment of 10/-.

Gugliehno jUaitom, the young Italian elect 1 lcun. whose name has loi the past h\e \eais, by 1 easoii ol lus experiments m telegraphy without wnes. been lamrliai to most and who has now succeeded m sending messages fiom Cape Bieton, Canada to Cornwall has the good fortune to belong to a lamily of some position and ol some wealth m his nati\e city, iiologna Fi om the mst he was- well supplied with both the means and the opportunity far conducting the set ies of expei unents which weie to'iesult m one ol the most sensational sci"iil ilu disco\enes of the day A pupil ol Vioiessor Kosa at Leghorn, and ol Tioiessor Ilighi of the ITnheisity 01 Bologna, his reseai dies weie first earned out in his native city, and later on S.ili.sbm.v I'lam, undei the Director-Geneial of Telegraphs : at Koine, and at Spo/./ia .sign or Maiconi, whose mother is an Irishwoman, was born September 23, 187. J. The appointment of Sir Francis Bertie to Ihe l',i lti-h Embassy at Koine (says the 'Fieenuin's .Journal) is- a suitable one, at least in one lespect— that the new Ambassador is a Catholic. Not \eiy long ago the Uling o the post by an English Toiy Catholic miuht n.»\o caused some conci-in in Ireland. wheie the Kinnvrnn imyn and its miinious consequences aie not forgot 1 -m l->ut nowacla\s theie need be no leal appi ehension that an\ British" Minister can do an\Uung n cieaie nn.mlnstandmg between the Hnlv See and Irish M^ioiul'Sts. and e\en 11 Ihe new Ambass a doi is ioo'>sh <noi«h 1 ne tempted into that thoi ny and -lan •i, ous ps. ;. Ms cffo.ts-mav be tieated with mcl.fTo. >i<e_ Ti" l ' in ]~ ment needless to say. has caused anything t -it sd iMaction in the upper lanks of the diplomatic -ci \ . r, whenhi? putting of Foreign Oilice omcials at a bound in o the higher posts is greatly resented However, ihe diplomatic serwee at present is wofully d.toent in brilliant or able men, and the opinion is held that with tho exception, possibly, of Sir Francis Tlunket, the. c is scarcely an Ambassador among them ol any marked distmction The rest are mere utility men, safe, perhaps, but in an emergency not the kind of men on whom the peace of the world should depend. The London 'Taller' of a recent date wonders if any good-natured friends of Mr Geoige Wyndham thclnsh secretary, have called his attention to a quotation fiom

Boswell's 'Johnson' reminiscent of a time when ancxher Mr. Windham, whose name was spelt with an 'i' and not a 'y,' was sent to Dublin Castle. Here, at any rate, is the quotation from 'Boswell's Life of Johnson' : — 'On Saturday, April 12, 1 \isited him in company with Mr. Windham, ol Norfolk, whom, though a Whig, he highly \ a hied One of the best tilings he ever said was to this gentleman, who before he set out for Ireland as secretary to Loi d Northington, when Lord Lieutenant, expresseil to Ihe sage some modest and virtuous doubts whether he could bung himself to practice those arts which it is supposed a person in that situation has occasion to employ. " Don't be afraid, sir," said Johnson, with a pleasant smile, " you will soon make a very pretty rascal " '

A list of subscriptions from New Zealand to the building fund of the Christian Brothers' Novitiate, Dublin, appeals in this issue.

The Railway authorities notify sc%eial alterations in and additions to the ordinary train ser's ice in connection with the Dunedm Autumn i aces at "\\ ingatui on the 2">th, 27th and 28th mst. On Saturday a sjjecial train will K\i\o Dunedin for Chnstc hurc h at 8.20 p m. and a tiam will lea\e lor Bakiutha and intermediate Stations ,il 11 L'n) j> m Further particulars will bo lound elsewheie in this issue .

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