Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2nd edition)

The new edition of the Chambers Dictionary of Quotations makes a strong appeal to the modernist with its dust jacket image of Martin Luther King Jr giving an address. (This is in marked contrast to the emphasis on the past of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, which has fine art reproductions on the dust jackets of its various editions.) Chambers may seek to convey this image as the younger of the two dictionaries (it was first published in 1996 and is now in its second edition). By contrast, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has been going since 1941 and...