14-516: The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood , first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. Editions were recorded for 1920, 1930, 1938 and 1956 and was still being sold in 1966. Editors included G. Elgie Christ and A. L. Hayden for 1930, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson for 1938 and C. M. Prior for 1956. The Nuttall Encyclopædia
28-519: A translator from Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about a print editor is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Nuttall Encyclopaedia The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood , first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. Editions were recorded for 1920, 1930, 1938 and 1956 and
42-465: A Lecture on Thomas Carlyle, by a Scotch Preacher , and in 1882 made the authorized translation of Auguste Barth 's Religions of India . In 1893, after working on it for three years, he published his Dictionary of Quotations , later renamed as Nuttall's Dictionary of Quotations . He was also the author of Bagster & Sons ' Helps to the Bible and a Carlyle School Reader . This article about
56-785: A book on the United Kingdom or its constituent countries is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . James Wood (encyclopedist) James Wood (12 October 1820 – 17 March 1901) was a Scottish writer, editor, and Free Church minister. Born in Leith , Wood studied at the University of Edinburgh and was ordained as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland , following the Disruption of 1843 . His admiration for Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin may have contributed to his failure to secure
70-525: A definite perspective. This can be seen in entries like Dates of Epoch-Making Events . As another example, the entry for Venezuela presents a British view of an 1899 event : ...the boundary line between the British colony and Venezuela was for long matter of keen dispute, but by the intervention of the United States at the request of the latter a treaty between the contending parties was concluded, referring
84-420: A definite perspective. This can be seen in entries like Dates of Epoch-Making Events . As another example, the entry for Venezuela presents a British view of an 1899 event : ...the boundary line between the British colony and Venezuela was for long matter of keen dispute, but by the intervention of the United States at the request of the latter a treaty between the contending parties was concluded, referring
98-620: Is named for Dr. Peter Austin Nuttall (d. 1869), whose works, such as Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language (published in 1863), were eventually acquired by Frederick Warne , and would be published for decades to come. The title page proclaims this encyclopedia to be "a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopædias, and specially dealing with such as come under
112-426: The categories of history , biography , geography , literature , philosophy , religion , science , and art ". The entries or articles in this work are generally very short, and are mostly about individuals and places; while it has entries for fictional characters from Charles Dickens ' books, the encyclopedia lacks entries for fruit . It often reflects the personal worldview of the author, viewing events from
126-426: The categories of history , biography , geography , literature , philosophy , religion , science , and art ". The entries or articles in this work are generally very short, and are mostly about individuals and places; while it has entries for fictional characters from Charles Dickens ' books, the encyclopedia lacks entries for fruit . It often reflects the personal worldview of the author, viewing events from
140-492: The first group, "no true conception" of the second, and "a measure of sympathy" with the third, but added "…yet there are drawbacks which make it impossible for me to hail their movement with any warmth." In 1867, Wood's Stories from Greek Mythology was published in London. Wood edited Nuttall 's Standard Dictionary and The Nuttall Encyclopaedia . In 1881, he published anonymously The Strait Gate and Other Discourses, with
154-557: The matter to a court of arbitration, which met at Paris in 1895, and settled it in 1899, in vindication, happily, of the British claim, the Schomburgk line being now declared to be the true line, and the gold-fields ours. In 2004, Project Gutenberg published a version of the 1907 edition, which is now in the public domain . This article about an encyclopedia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
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182-607: The ministry of a congregation. Instead, he earned a living as a writer and editor and spent most of his life in Edinburgh. Wood is described by P. J. E. Wilson as " that most conscientious of pedants". In his anonymous The Strait Gate (1881), Wood says of himself that he should not be classed with the High churchmen , the Evangelicals , or the Broad churchmen . He had "no faith whatsoever" in
196-692: Was still being sold in 1966. Editors included G. Elgie Christ and A. L. Hayden for 1930, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson for 1938 and C. M. Prior for 1956. The Nuttall Encyclopædia is named for Dr. Peter Austin Nuttall (d. 1869), whose works, such as Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language (published in 1863), were eventually acquired by Frederick Warne , and would be published for decades to come. The title page proclaims this encyclopedia to be "a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopædias, and specially dealing with such as come under
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