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Excerpt from Handbook, 1921 The term reference books is used in libraries to indicate books to which one turns to find some special fact, but which one does not expect to read through consecutively. Such books are most often of the dictionary or cyclopedia sort, that is, compilations of disconnected material in an alphabetical arrangement. Some of them are general,-one may reasonably hope to find something in them about almost any subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.