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Diamonds and Precious Stones: their History, Value, and Properties, WITH SIMPLE TESTS FOR ASCERTAINING THEIR REALITY; by H. EMANUEL, F.R.G.S. With numerous illustrations, coloured and plain.
⁂ Although this Work is intended as a plain and practical Guide to Buyers and Sellers of Precious Stones, the History and Literature of the subject have not been overlooked. Anecdotes of the peculiar accidents and strange fortune which have attended some Jewels are given, and what is hoped will be found a valuable Bibliography of the subject is added as an Appendix at the end.
THE FAMILY HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES.
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Dictionary of Americanisms; Words and Phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the UNITED STATES. By JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT. THIRD and BEST EDITION.
_The work extends to 560 pages, and presents to the English reader a body of admirably-selected extracts from the humorous and dialectical literature of the United States._
It is a curious fact connected with Slang, that a great number of vulgar words common in England are equally common in the United States; and when we remember that America began to people two centuries ago, and that these colloquialisms must have crossed the sea with the first emigrants, we can form some idea of the antiquity of popular or street language. Many words, owing to the caprices of fashion or society, have wholly disappeared in the parent country, whilst in the colonies they are yet heard. The words SKINK, to serve drink in company, and the old term MICHING or MEECHING, skulking or playing truant, for instance, are still in use in the United States, although nearly, if not quite, obsolete here.