CINXE.COM

Reference: Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Thesauri, Usage, Quotations, and more. Bartleby.com

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head><script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=HxkREWBo" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script> <script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden"};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> __wm.init("https://web.archive.org/web"); __wm.wombat("http://www.bartleby.com:80/reference/","20061205092558","https://web.archive.org/","web","/_static/", "1165310758"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=S1zqJCYt" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" /> <!-- End Wayback Rewrite JS Include --> <!-- reference.index.10132003 --> <title>Reference: Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Thesauri, Usage, Quotations, and more. Bartleby.com</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web."> <meta name="keywords" content="Reference. Bartleby.com"> <style type="text/css"> .FormLt1 { font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; background-color: #ffffff; } .sizeLt1 { font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; } </style> </head> <!-- BEGIN MAIN HEADER CODE --> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#003366" text="#000020" alink="#888645" vlink="#888645" alink="#888645"> <map name="Tabs"> <area shape="rect" coords="8,8,220,47" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/"> <area shape="rect" coords="509,32,589,48" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/"> <area shape="rect" coords="424,30,505,47" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/fiction/"> <area shape="rect" coords="340,29,414,49" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/verse/"> <area shape="rect" coords="253,29,329,47" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/reference/"> </map> <map name="Links"> <area shape="rect" coords="252,3,318,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/usage/"> <area shape="rect" coords="189,2,247,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/"> <area shape="rect" coords="133,3,185,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/"> <area shape="rect" coords="75,4,127,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/61/"> <area shape="rect" coords="4,3,68,17" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/65/"> </map> <map name="Links2"> <area shape="rect" coords="5,3,37,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/"> <area shape="rect" coords="45,3,89,17" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/subjects/"> <area shape="rect" coords="133,3,175,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/authors/"> <area shape="rect" coords="96,3,126,16" href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/titles/"> </map> <table align="center" width="770" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="TOP"> <!-- TOP AD CODE BEGIN --> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" align="center"><tr><td align="center"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bartlebylibrary&amp;o=1&amp;p=40&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=holiday&amp;banner=0K3GRKHPCV6NR4MMCMG2&amp;f=ifr" width="120" height="60" scrolling="no" border="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></td> <td align="center"> <!-- ---------- Advertising.com Banner Code -------------- --> <center> <script language="JavaScript"> var bnum=new Number(Math.floor(99999999 * Math.random())+1); document.write('<SCR'+'IPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" '); document.write('SRC="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://servedby.advertising.com/site=62058/size=468060/bnum='+bnum+'/optn=1"></SCR'+'IPT>'); </script> <noscript> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://servedby.advertising.com/click/site=62058/bnum=16721052" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558im_/http://servedby.advertising.com/site=62058/size=468060/bnum=16721052/bins=1/rich=0" width="468" height="60" border="0" alt="Click to learn more..."> </a> </noscript> </center> <!-- ---------- Copyright 2000, Advertising.com ---------- --> </td></tr></table> <!-- TOP AD CODE END --> <!-- FASTCLICK.COM POP-UNDER CODE v1.8 for bartleby.com (12 hour) --> <script language="javascript"><!-- var dc=document; var date_ob=new Date(); dc.cookie='h2=o; path=/;';var bust=date_ob.getSeconds(); if(dc.cookie.indexOf('e=llo') <= 0 && dc.cookie.indexOf('2=o') > 0){ dc.write('<scr'+'ipt language="javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://media.fastclick.net'); dc.write('/w/pop.cgi?sid=6096&m=2&tp=2&v=1.8&c='+bust+'"></scr'+'ipt>'); date_ob.setTime(date_ob.getTime()+43200000); dc.cookie='he=llo; path=/; expires='+ date_ob.toGMTString();} // --> </script> <!-- FASTCLICK.COM POP-UNDER CODE v1.8 for bartleby.com --> <form method="GET" action="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch"> <table align="center" width="603" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <!-- BEGIN SEARCH CODE --> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/top_nav.gif" width="603" height="50" border="0" usemap="#Tabs"></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#B1B1B1" align="left"><td height="33" align="center"> <table width="602" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"> <tr><td valign="top" width="194" bgcolor="#F2F1ED"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/great_books.gif" width="193" height="33"></td> <td bgcolor="#F2F1ED" align="left" valign="middle" class="sizeLt1"> <select name="FILTER" class="FormLt1" size="1"> <option value="">Select Search</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="">All Bartleby.com</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option selected value="colReference">All Reference</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="col65">Columbia Encyclopedia</option> <option value="col67">World History Encyclopedia</option> <option value="col59">Cultural Literacy</option> <option value="col151">World Factbook</option> <option value="col69">Columbia Gazetteer</option> <option value="colAM">American Heritage Coll.</option> <option value="col61">Dictionary</option> <option value="colThesaurus">Roget's Thesauri</option> <option value="col62">Roget's II: Thesaurus</option> <option value="col110">Roget's Int'l Thesaurus</option> <option value="colQuotations">Quotations</option> <option value="col100">Bartlett's Quotations</option> <option value="col66">Columbia Quotations</option> <option value="col63">Simpson's Quotations</option> <option value="col73">Respectfully Quoted</option> <option value="colUsage">English Usage</option> <option value="col64">Modern Usage</option> <option value="col68">American English</option> <option value="col116">Fowler's King's English</option> <option value="col141">Strunk's Style</option> <option value="col185">Mencken's Language</option> <option value="colCamb-Hi">Cambridge History</option> <option value="col108">The King James Bible</option> <option value="colShakespe">Oxford Shakespeare</option> <option value="col107">Gray's Anatomy</option> <option value="col87">Farmer's Cookbook</option> <option value="col95">Post's Etiquette</option> <option value="col81">Brewer's Phrase &amp; Fable</option> <option value="colBulfinchT">Bulfinch's Mythology</option> <option value="col196">Frazer's Golden Bough</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colVerse">All Verse</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colAnthology">Anthologies</option> <option value="colDickinsoE">Dickinson, E.</option> <option value="colEliot-Th">Eliot, T.S.</option> <option value="colFrost-Ro">Frost, R.</option> <option value="colHopkinsG">Hopkins, G.M.</option> <option value="colKeats-Jo">Keats, J.</option> <option value="colLawrencDH">Lawrence, D.H.</option> <option value="colMasters">Masters, E.L.</option> <option value="colSandburg">Sandburg, C.</option> <option value="colSassoon">Sassoon, S.</option> <option value="colWhitmnW">Whitman, W.</option> <option value="colWordswthW">Wordsworth, W.</option> <option value="colYeats-Wi">Yeats, W.B.</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colNonfiction">All Nonfiction</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colHC">Harvard Classics</option> <option value="col109">American Essays</option> <option value="col173">Einstein's Relativity</option> <option value="colGrant-Ul">Grant, U.S.</option> <option value="colRsvltT">Roosevelt, T.</option> <option value="col86">Wells's History</option> <option value="col124">Presidential Inaugurals</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colFiction">All Fiction</option> <option value="">-----</option> <option value="colSF">Shelf of Fiction</option> <option value="col166">Ghost Stories</option> <option value="col195">Short Stories</option> <option value="colShaw-Geo">Shaw, G.B.</option> <option value="colStein-Ge">Stein, G.</option> <option value="colStvnsnR">Stevenson, R.L.</option> <option value="colWells-HG">Wells, H.G.</option> </select></td><td bgcolor="#F2F1ED" align="left" valign="middle" class="sizeLt1"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!----- bName = navigator.appName; function isWin(){ if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1) { return true; } else { return false; } } if (isWin() && bName != "Netscape") document.write("<input name=\"query\" class=\"FormLt1\" type=text maxlength=\"40\" size=\"35\">"); else if (isWin() && bName == "Netscape") document.write("<input name=\"query\" class=\"FormLt1\" type=text maxlength=\"40\" size=\"17\">"); else document.write("<input name=\"query\" class=\"FormLt1\" type=text maxlength=\"40\" size=\"21\">"); // --> </script> <noscript><input name="query" type="TEXT" maxlength="40" size="17"></noscript> </td><td bgcolor="#F2F1ED" align="left" valign="middle" class="sizeLt1"><input width="22" height="23" type="IMAGE" src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/go.gif" border="0"></td></tr></table></td></tr> <!-- END SEARCH CODE --> <!-- BEGIN FEATURED CODE --> <tr bgcolor="#B1B1B1"><td height="1"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/horiz_bar602.gif" width="602" height="1"></td></tr> <tr valign="top" align="center"><td height="27" bgcolor="#B1B1B1"><table width="601" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#F2F1ED"><tr bgcolor="#F2F1ED"><td align="left" valign="middle" height="27"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/bar_z.gif" width="176" height="19" border="0" usemap="#Links2"></td><td align="right" valign="middle"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/bar_r.gif" width="321" height="19" hspace="12" border="0" usemap="#Links" alt=""></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#B1B1B1"> <td height="1"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/horiz_bar602.gif" width="602" height="1"></td></tr> <!-- END FEATURED CODE --> <!-- END MAIN HEADER CODE --> </table></form> <!-- END TOP CHAPTER/SECTION NAV CODE --> <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <!-- BEGIN CHAPTER --> <tr valign="bottom" align="center"> <!-- COLUMN ONE --> <td width="135" valign="top" align="left"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr align="right"><td><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/subjects/"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/people/reference.gif" width="129" height="135" border="0" alt="Reference"></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><font size="-1">Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.</font></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> </table> <br><br> </td> <!-- COLUMN TWO --> <td valign="top" align="left" width="10"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/space.gif" width="10" height="1"></td> <!-- COLUMN THREE --> <td valign="top" width="439" align="left"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"><td><font size="+2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#999966"><b>Reference</b></font></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><form method="GET" action="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td valign="middle"><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Search Reference:</font></b></td> <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td valign="middle"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><input type="text" size="17" maxlength="30" name="query"><input type="hidden" name="filter" value="colReference"></font></td> <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td> <td valign="middle"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go"></font></td> </tr></table></form></td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td> <dl> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">General</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/65/">Columbia Encyclopedia</a>, 6th ed.&nbsp;2001.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The most up-to-date encyclopedia available contains over 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations and 80,000 cross-references.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/67/">The Encyclopedia of World History</a>, 6th ed.&nbsp;2001.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns&#146;s comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millenia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/59/">The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy</a>, 3rd ed.&nbsp;2002.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/69/">The Columbia Gazetteer of North America</a>. 2000.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">With 50,000 entries, this most comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features will prove invaluable to anyone for whom places hold fascination and who require accurate data about them.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/151/">The World Factbook</a>. 2003.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The U.S. government&#146;s complete geographical handbook, featuring full-color maps and flags of all nations.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/am/">American Heritage<sup>&#174;</sup> Collection</a></font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/61/">American Heritage<sup>&#174;</sup> Dictionary of the English Language</a>, 4th ed.&nbsp;2000.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.</font></dd> <a name="thesauri"></a> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/">Roget&#146;s Thesauri</a></font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/62/">Roget&#146;s II: The New Thesaurus</a>, 3rd ed.&nbsp;1995.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/110/">Roget&#146;s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases</a>.&nbsp;1922</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mawson&#146;s modernization of Roget&#146;s classic structure with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references and 2,900 quotations.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/">Quotations</a></font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/BartlettJon.html">Bartlett, John</a>. 1919. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/100/">Familiar Quotations</a>, 10th ed.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett&#146;s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/66/">The Columbia World of Quotations</a>.&nbsp;1996.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500 subjects.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/63/">Simpson&#146;s Contemporary Quotations</a>.&nbsp;1988.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The most notable quotations since 1950 contains over 9,000 quotations from 4,000 sources and is organized into 25 categories and 60 sections.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/73/">Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</a>.&nbsp;1989.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate.</font></dd> <dd><a name="style">&nbsp;</a></dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/usage/">English Usage</a>: Language, Style &amp; Composition</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/64/">American Heritage<sup>&#174;</sup> Book of English Usage</a>.&nbsp;1996</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/68/">The Columbia Guide to Standard American English</a>. 1993.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This most extensive handbook of the language ever published features over 6,500 descriptive and prescriptive entires with 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Fowler-H.html">Fowler, H. W</a>. 1908. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/116/">The King&#146;s English</a>, 2nd ed.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This reference work has remained a standard resource&#151;serving generations of students and writers with commonsense rules of style and grammar.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Mencken.html">Mencken, H.L</a>. 1921. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/185/">The American Language</a>: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, 2nd ed.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This classic defines the distinguishing characteristics of the language of the United States.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/QuillerC.html">Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur</a>. 1916. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/190/">On the Art of Writing</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This collection of lectures captures the artistic and vital nature of language.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/QuillerC.html">Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur</a>. 1920. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/191/">On the Art of Reading</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Rich with insight on the activity of effectual and intelligent reading.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Sapir-Ed.html">Sapir, Edward</a>. 1921. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/186/">Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The classic text on the relation of language and culture.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Strunk-W.html">Strunk, William, Jr</a>. 1918. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/141/">The Elements of Style</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student or writer.</font></dd> <dd><a name="myth">&nbsp;</a></dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Religion &amp; Mythology</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Bible.html">The Bible</a>. 1999. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/108/">King James Version</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The culmination of English translations of the Bible by the American Bible Society.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt>Brewer, E. Cobham. 1898. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/81/">Dictionary of Phrase and Fable</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Comprising over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog &#147;words with a tale to tell.&#148;</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/BulfinchT.html">Bulfinch, Thomas</a>. 1913. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/bulfinch/">The Age of Fable</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Revised and enlarged four-volume edition of the classic work on the mythology and fable of the ages.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Frazer-S.html">Frazer, Sir James George</a>. 1922. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/196/">The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion</a>, Abridged ed.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The classic study in comparative folklore, magic and religion.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Literary History &amp; Literature</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/">Cambridge History of English &amp; American Literature</a> (18 vols.). 1907&#150;21.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The most important work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Ch.html">Eliot, Charles W</a>., ed. 1909&#150;17. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/hc/">The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The most popular anthology of the twentieth century comprises 70 volumes.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Th.html">Eliot, T.S</a>. 1920. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/200/">The Sacred Wood</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Eliot&#146;s collection of essays on poetry and criticism.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html">Shakespeare, William</a>. 1914. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/70/">The Oxford Shakespeare</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/VanDorenC.html">Van Doren, Carl</a>. 1921. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/187/">The American Novel</a>. <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Historical treatment of the development of the &#147;Great American Novel.&#148;</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt>See Also: <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/verse/">Verse</a> &amp; <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/fiction/">Fiction</a>. <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anatomy</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt>Gray, Henry. 1918. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/107/">Anatomy of the Human Body</a>, 20th ed.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Featuring 1,247 vibrant engravings&#151;many in color&#151;from the classic 1918 publication.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cooking</font></b> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> </dt> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Farmer-F.html">Farmer, Fannie Merritt</a>. 1918. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/87/">The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This landmark American cookbook advocates a no-nonsense approach to cooking for the ordinary person.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Etiquette</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Post-Emi.html">Post, Emily</a>. 1922. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/95/">Etiquette</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pithy advice on every subject of American social life.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><b><font size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Parliamentary Procedure &amp; Government</font></b></dt> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt>Robert, Henry M. 1915. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/176/">Robert&#146;s Rules of Order Revised</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The rules of Congress for every deliberative society.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/124/">Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States</a>. 1989.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Illustrated and annotated edition of all Inaugural addresses from George Washington to George W. Bush.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt><a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/people/Bryan-Wi.html">Bryan, William Jennings</a>, ed. 1906. <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/268/">The World&#146;s Famous Orations</a>.</dt> <dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces by 213 rhetoricians.</font></dd> <dd>&nbsp;</dd> <dt>See Also: <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/">Nonfiction</a>. </dl> <br> <br> <br> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table> <!-- BOTTOM CHAPTER/SECTION NAV CODE --> <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <!-- AMAZON --> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td><table align="CENTER"> <tr><td align="CENTER"> <!-- Search Google --> <center> <form method="get" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top"> <table bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://www.google.com/"> <img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/include/Logo_25wht.gif" width="75" height="32" border="0" alt="Google" align="middle"></img></a> <input type="text" name="q" size="20" maxlength="255" value=""></input> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"></input> <input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-5691076175788952"></input> <input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;"></input> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input> </td></tr></table> </form> </center> <!-- Search Google --> </td></tr> </table></td></tr> <tr><td align="CENTER" height="25" width="1%" valign="MIDDLE"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="-1">Click <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/bookstore/index.html">here</a> to shop the <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/bookstore/index.html">Bartleby Bookstore</a>.</font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#B1B1B1"> <td height="1"><img src="/web/20061205092558im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/newsite/horiz_bar602.gif" alt="" width="603" height="1"></td></tr> <!-- insert footer --> <tr valign="bottom" align="center"><td> <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/sv/welcome.html" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Welcome</font></a> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">&#183; <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/press/index.html" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f">Press</font></a> &#183; <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/sv/advertising.html" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f">Advertising</font></a> &#183; <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/link/" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f">Linking</font></a> &#183; <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/sv/terms.html" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f">Terms of Use</font></a> &#183; &copy; 2005 <a href="/web/20061205092558/http://www.bartleby.com/" target="_top"><font color="#0b074f">Bartleby.com</font></a></font> </td></tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <!-- END FOOTER --> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" align="center"><tr><td align="center"><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bartlebylibrary&amp;o=1&amp;p=40&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=holiday&amp;banner=0K3GRKHPCV6NR4MMCMG2&amp;f=ifr" width="120" height="60" scrolling="no" border="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></td> <td align="center"> <!-- BOTTOM AD CODE BEGIN --> <!-- ---------- Advertising.com Banner Code -------------- --> <center> <script language="JavaScript"> var bnum=new Number(Math.floor(99999999 * Math.random())+1); document.write('<SCR'+'IPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" '); document.write('SRC="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://servedby.advertising.com/site=62058/size=468060/bnum='+bnum+'/optn=1"></SCR'+'IPT>'); </script> <noscript> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://servedby.advertising.com/click/site=62058/bnum=16721052" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558im_/http://servedby.advertising.com/site=62058/size=468060/bnum=16721052/bins=1/rich=0" width="468" height="60" border="0" alt="Click to learn more..."> </a> </noscript> </center> <!-- ---------- Copyright 2000, Advertising.com ---------- --> </td></tr></table> <!-- BOTTOM AD CODE END --> <!-- UBER TABLE END --> </td><td valign="top" rowspan="2"> <!-- Google --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5691076175788952"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = "120x240_as"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "A8DDA0"; google_color_bg = "EBFFED"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <!-- End Google --> <br><br> <!-- ---------- Advertising.com Banner Code -------------- --> <script language="JavaScript"> var bnum=new Number(Math.floor(99999999 * Math.random())+1); document.write('<SCR'+'IPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" '); document.write('SRC="https://web.archive.org/web/20061205092558/http://servedby.advertising.com/site=80405/size=120600/bnum='+bnum+'/optn=1"></SCR'+'IPT>'); </script> <!-- ---------- Copyright 2000, Advertising.com ---------- --> </td></tr></table> </body> </html> <!-- FILE ARCHIVED ON 09:25:58 Dec 05, 2006 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 20:30:28 Nov 28, 2024. JAVASCRIPT APPENDED BY WAYBACK MACHINE, COPYRIGHT INTERNET ARCHIVE. ALL OTHER CONTENT MAY ALSO BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT (17 U.S.C. SECTION 108(a)(3)). --> <!-- playback timings (ms): captures_list: 0.942 exclusion.robots: 0.067 exclusion.robots.policy: 0.05 esindex: 0.017 cdx.remote: 13.972 LoadShardBlock: 141.615 (3) PetaboxLoader3.datanode: 130.95 (4) PetaboxLoader3.resolve: 116.144 (2) load_resource: 117.194 -->

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10