Voltaire's dictionary

Nicholas Lezard reviews Voltaire's A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary:

One of the reasons I checked against the original was because I thought: hang on, has this been gussied up to attract a modern audience? It hasn't. And it's one good reason why this book is still the first one you need on your shelves if you want to be part of the Dawkins/Dennett anti-religious crusade. (In fact, this book pre-emptively renders those works unnecessary. Not Hitchens's, though, because it's so well-written, and so could be said to be more Voltairean than the others'.) His routine is basically to point out, under almost randomly generated headings, stupidities and inconsistencies in the Bible, or in examples of religious intolerance, or of cruel and bone-headed dogmatism.