Here is a real treat for word lovers: 3,100 selections from Dr. Johnson's historic dictionary, with definitions, etymologies and usage illustrations. To buss is charmingly defined as""To kiss; to ...

SAMUEL JOHNSON—Hugh Kingsmill— Viking ($2.75). Most-famed biography in English literature is James Boswell’s 143-year-old Life of Samuel Johnson. Greatly daring, Author Hugh Kingsmill has written his ...

Events that happened this week in Christian history include the death of Samuel Johnson, Isabella Thoburn arriving in India, ...

Dramadocumentary telling the story of Samuel Johnsons creation of the first English dictionary in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London The depressive writerforhire with Tourettes ...

Mr. Keizer is an author and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review. If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709 to 1784) ...