Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel,' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
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In this age of computers, collections like this are to be expected, but not done by hand as this one was and not with the wit, grace, and imagination that this one has...This volume represents a staggering effort and achievement; it will not be superseded. (Library Journal )
The scholar who is dedicated to the study of proverbs has been provided with a magnificent research tool. (Review of English Studies )
Professor and Mrs. Whiting have produced a great, new work of reference, the comprehensiveness of the collection is remarkable. (Notes and Queries )
Professor Whiting, with the able collaboration of his wife, Helen Wescott Whiting, has given us an authoritative dictionary of mediaeval English proverbs and sentences for which we can all be grateful...Certainly this is the largest single collection of English proverbs and sentences before 1500 that I have seen and the most useful. (Speculum )
The scholar who is dedicated to the study of proverbs has been provided with a magnificent research tool. (Review of English Studies )
Professor and Mrs. Whiting have produced a great, new work of reference, the comprehensiveness of the collection is remarkable. (Notes and Queries )
Professor Whiting, with the able collaboration of his wife, Helen Wescott Whiting, has given us an authoritative dictionary of mediaeval English proverbs and sentences for which we can all be grateful...Certainly this is the largest single collection of English proverbs and sentences before 1500 that I have seen and the most useful. (Speculum )
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