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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (1,831 pp.)-John Bartlett-12th Edition Revised & Enlarged by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...
...years since Boston's John Bartlett first tried to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " In 1937, when Editors Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful...
Editors Morley & Everett had hoped that their 1937 edition would serve until 1960. "But by 1940 it was plain that enlargement was already desirable. Man in his Penultimate War was saying words that had to be recorded." Voices that had seemed too faint in the '30s (Winston Churchill was not even included) were now fairly screaming for attention. Result: the editors have left Bartlett unchanged from Poet Caedmon (A.D. 670) to Poet Rudyard Kipling, but from there on nobody will recognize the old household...
...What words will survive or die? That is what is called (today, at any rate) "the $64 question." Editors Morley & Everett have taken no chances. They have included a host of minor poets whose work is unknown outside the little magazines. They have recorded some of the most banal remarks ever made, simply because the authors sit in 1948's high places (e.g., Secretary of State Marshall England s Princess Elizabeth), or had high hopes of sitting there ("That's why it's time for a change," says Thomas E Dewey; "We want to feel...