“ To the Authorized Version of the English Bible, Alexander Cruden was the first to prepare a concordance which met with wide acceptance (London, 1737) , and it has been reprinted so often, complete or in condensation, that Cruden has become a household word. Two others, however, compete for the palm of superiority—Robert Young, Analytical Concordance to the Bible (Edinburgh, 1879) , often reprinted, and James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance (New York, 1894) , which takes account of every word and is surely the most ambitious work of its kind. ”

“ A book arranged in alphabetical order, and showing in what passages all, or at least all of the more important, words in any work occur. For writings of universal import from which passages are continually being adduced to prove or support principles affecting our daily life and action, such a handbook is indispensable. The necessity for such a book upon the Bible was doubtless early felt, but the first Bible concordance was made by the famous Saint Anthony of Padua (q.v.) ”

“ Shakespeare, Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke (London, 1845) ; or better, John Bartlett (New York, 1894) ; Milton, Poetical Works, G. L. Prendergast (Madras, 1857) ; C. D. Cleveland (London, 1867) ; Pope, E. Abbott (ib., 1875) ”