Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Revue Celtique, 1917-1919, Vol. 37
The more I worked at the Academy's dictionary the more clearly I recognised that as a whole it was useless for all scho larly purposes. I put forward this view in a letter to the Coun cil of the Academy dated (i believe) December 1912. Cousi derably before that date, however, the Academy in the most definite manner had put forward the desirability of obtaining at least one part issued before the autumn of 1913, since in default of this they would run the risk of losing a conside rable legacy, bequeathed on the express condition that the publication of the dictionary should be commenced by the date in question. This fact is widely known, and I\ am therefore not guilty of any discretion by revealing it. The governing body of the Academy was in a difficult position, and I believe that in view of the situation they acted rightly. Nor was the editor's position more easy. In order not to for feit the sum in question, the making of excerpts was limited to D especially d-di. The present issue was thus mainly prepared in Christiania from the material collected up to the autumn of 1912 during the late autumn of 1912 and the first winter months of 1913. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
