Lalor's Encyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and American History is by far the best work for reference.

The Encyclopaedia was the most serious attempt, and it did not wholly fail.

An Encyclopaedia is both a luxury and a necessity.

The Chinese encyclopaedias of the seventeenth and especially of the eighteenth century were thus the outcome of the initiative of the Manchurian emperor, and were compiled for his information; they were not due, like the French encyclopaedias of the eighteenth century, to a movement for the spread of knowledge among the people.

His encyclopaedia is essentially the result of his study of Greek literature.