ABSTRACT
Schele de Vere's "Americanisms," a small octavo of something less than seven hundred pages, differs from the other works mentioned in nnt adopting the dictinnary form, but presenting our verbal peculiarities as arranged in various classes-those invented by the Indian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, the Spaniard, the German, the Negro, 'and the Chinaman; expressions peculiar to the West, to the church, to politics and to trade; marine and railroad terms; cant and slang; new words and nicknames, etc. The author has been accused of plagiarizing from Bartlett, and doubtless did -avail himself freely 'Of the labors of that lexicographer; but he added a good deal of original matter, and his book possesses an interest of its own. About four thousand items appear in the index.
