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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
in England Webster's Dictionary has not superseded Johnson's, it soon became the standard in the United States. The revision of 1847, conducted by Chauncey A. Goodrich, was authoritative. After the fourth edition, the so-called Pictorial, further revised by Goodrich but considered only provisional (1859), there appeared in 1864 the fifth edition, the first to be known as the Unabridged, a thorough recension by Goodrich (who died in 1860) and by Noah Porter, with a staff which included C. A. F. Mahn of Berlin (who revised the etymologies), W. D. Whitney, James Dwight Dana, Daniel Coit Gilman, and James Hadley. This has been the basis of later revisions, gradually getting rid of some of its defects; for instance, its unscholarly treatment of locutions like had better, had rather, and its derivation of gonoph from gone off! The sixth edition (1890）—the International—was the result of the most extensive and exhaustive revision that the Dictionary had received. In 1900 there was adde<
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
in, 295 McIntosh, 261 n. McKelway, 327 McKim, J. M., 488 McKinley, 363 McLoughlin, John, 140 McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 140 Maclurc, Wm., 436 McTeague, 93 McVickar, John, 433 Madame Butterfly, 281, 282 Madison, James, 227, 396, 453 Madrid, M., 593 Madrigals and catches, 52 Maeterlinck, 50, 285 Maggie a girl of the streets, 92 Maggie Pepper, 287 Magnalia Christi Americana, 73, 392 Mahaffy, 239, 466 Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 194, 196-7, 200, 229 Mahn, C. A. F., 477 Mahoney, D. A., 349 Mai Kamashmalon, 602 Mail and express, 44 Major, Charles, 91, 288 Major Barbara, 294 Making of an American, the, 420 Mallarme, 50 Malory, 6, 17, 18 Malthus, 428, 431 Malthusianism and capitalism, 601 Man, the, 437 Man and nature, 473 Manatt, Irving, 468 Man from home, the, 288 Manly, William Lewis, 150 Mann, Horace, 404, 408, 409, 410 Manners, J. Hartley, 295 Mansfield, Richard, 278, 280, 283 Mansions of England, th