The German - English Pocket Dictionary (by T. W. Longman) seems to
be in various respects an improvement on most dictionaries already in use in this country. Among other things, the differences between separable and inseparable verbs, which often cause so much trouble to the German student, are clearly explained, and the different meanings given for each word, which is not the case with most dictionaries. We also notice that not only are the equivalent words for German weights and measures given, but their equivalents in English measures. But most conspicuous, and surely most welcome to all students of German, is the adoption of roman and italic type for German words, a change which will be thoroughly appreciated by all those whose eyes have been sorely tried by the small German type of all other dictionaries.
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