[16] The famous _Deutsches Wörterbuch_ of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, after many years of preparation, began to be printed in 1852; Jacob Grimm himself died in 1863, in the middle of the letter F; the work is expected to reach the end of S by the close of the century. The great _Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal_ was commenced in 1852; its first volume, _A--Ajuin_, was published in 1882, and it is not yet quite half-finished. Of the new edition of the _Vocabolario della Crusca_, which is to a certain extent on historical principles, Vol. I, containing A, was published in 1863, and Vol. VIII, completing I, in 1899; at least twenty-five more years will be required to reach Z. None of these works embraces so long a period of the language, or is so strictly historical in method, as the New English Dictionary. Rather are they, like Littré's great _Dictionnaire de la Langue Française_, Dictionaries of the modern language, with the current words more or less historically treated. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The evolution of English lexicography by James Augustus Henry Murray