UNIVERSAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY. BY JOSEPH THOMAS, M.D., LL.D., AUTHOR OF THE SYSTEM OF PRONUNCIATION IN "LIPPINCOTT'S PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD," NEW EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. LONDON: 10 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 944 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the こ 5864 .R. 198056 ADVERTISEMENT. In the preparation of this revised and enlarged edition of LIPPINCOTT'S PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY, great pains have been taken not only to include within its pages appropriate notices of all persons who have risen to any considerable degree of prominence since the issue of the first edition, but also to make such revisions in certain of the original articles as the lapse of time has rendered necessary to bring the accounts of the subjects down to the present date. In furtherance of this design, several thousand new articles now for the first time appear, while of the revisions and expansions of original notices, the subjects of which either have died since the first publication of their articles or by an additional fifteen years of active life now claim a more extended notice than was originally accorded them, many thousand instances will come to the notice of the reader, varying in importance from a simple record of the date of their deaths to paragraphs relating to recent important events in their histories. It is almost needless to add that in this revised edition the general plan of the first edition to combine the greatest possible completeness with the brevity necessary to bring the work within a reasonable compass has been strictly followed out, and that in the system of the pronunciation of proper names, which on its first publication won for its distinguished author, Dr. Joseph Thomas, a world-wide reputation among scholars, no change has been found necessary. That the work will long continue unrivalled in its special features and as a volume for study and reference is confidently anticipated by PHILADELPHIA, August, 1885. THE PUBLISHERS. |