The Washington Post

Book review: ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure,’ edited by C.D. Rose

Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. While none of the 52 writers in C.D. Rose’s invaluable book is a household name, to ...
Nature

Encyclopaedia Biblica; a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible

WHEN the plan of the “Encyclopædia Biblica” was first announced several years ago, the most favourable anticipations were formed with regard to the new project by all advocates of a moderate and ...
The Australian Financial Review

Book review | ‘The Biographical Dictionary Of Literary Failure’

Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. While none of the 52 writers in C.D. Rose’s invaluable book is a household name, to ...
Dawn

Urdu dictionaries of literary terms & a new arrival

THOMAS Roebuck compiled ‘An English and Hindoostanee naval dictionary of technical terms and sea phrases’. First published in 1811 from Calcutta (now Kolkata), it was Urdu’s first dictionary of ...
Dawn

Literary Notes: Dictionary of Urdu verbs: a labour of love

IT is surprising that how in our society some not-too-well-known persons not associated with any university or literary organisation can do some wonderful research work despite little or no ...
Nature

Encyclopaedia Biblica, a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible

THIS work, now completed, contains, as the publishers inform us, about as much printed matter as twelve volumes of the “Dictionary of National Biography.” They have also published a thin-paper edition ...