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- W1536708029 abstract "Nihil tetiguit quod non ornavit. So wrote the Great Lexicographer, about his friend Oliver Goldsmith. He might have been writing of Arthur Leff-in the cruel perfect tense, the tense of that which is finished as to the earth. The ensuing pages (like the books, the articles, and perhaps above all the marvelous reviews) speak for themselves. They speak also of the taste and fidelity of the editors of the Yale Journal, who have determined that nothing from so wonderful a man and mind should be lost. The entries are generally straightforward and spare, like those in Johnson's Dictionary, for Arthur (like Johnson) had a sense of genre, and an honesty that would have prevented his even so much as thinking of offering to the world a Law Dictionary that in prominent part was an alphabetized array of his own particular views, much less his of In his principal role as lexicographer, Arthur himself most often shows through in perspicuous compressions of concepts less well and more wordily expressed elsewhere; look, for example, s. vv. caeteris paribus, and borough. Visible also is his range in time-from the quaintnesses of boothagium and bona felonum, through body-snatching and borough reeves, down to boosted fire, book depreciation and boilerplate. The work, had Arthur been allowed to finish it, would have been the visible sign of a mind to which nothing in law or about law was alien. If the presently printed beginning has a fault, it is the small fault-overinclusiveness-that in real life almost always accompanies the great virtue of seeking the outer boundaries of one's own subject-in Arthur's case, all of law. We cannot in the nature of things know whether, in the final preparation of the manuscript, he might have struck out some entry, or have set out more fully its legal connections. But this uncertainty in no way shakes the solidity of the corpus. There are, to be sure, some sallies of wit. If that most serious of men, Samuel Johnson found these not wholly repressible in his great Dictionary, such stern and total self-denial cannot be expected of Arthur. But I will let readers discover these for themselves; I think Arthur would have preferred that. (I wonder what Arthur thought of Johnson's definition of a dictionary-maker as a harmless drudge; since he did not" @default.
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