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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 13 1 Browse Search
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.) 2 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)
ecame 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 added a Supplement, still edited by Noah Porter, who had now associated with<