"This is at least a curious book," exclaimed the London Critic, but that was about as far as the reviewer would go. The book in question .was a new sort of dictionary, compiled by a local doctor named Peter Mark Roget. As far as the Critic could see in 1852, Roget's Thesaurus would never prove to be really "useful."
The reviewer soon learned how wrong he was. The doctor went right on producing editions of his Thesaurus, and he could scarcely keep up with the demand. By 1869 he had edited 28 editions, was working on the 29th the night before he...
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