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Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
By J. Z. WORCESTER, LII.

One Uolii,ae, SEQ sheep, 1882 pageS-I'rtce VI bO
The publishers respectfully invite attention to the
following eminent testimony TO the excellence oil
this standard dictionary.
The execution Of this Dictionary fully answers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united Constant reference is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and Is taken to note such are tecfnl
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spe-
cally valuable to the general reader. The.author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUNcIA-
TON. His system of Notation, which is easily
derstood, and founded on more complete analysis
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities III relation to words differ
emily pronounced by different orhoepsts, gives to
this work important advantages as a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRrHoGRAPHY he has made no
bitrary changes, but where usage Is various and
1uctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in
Elections OF words to much greater extent than
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the short critical notes the photography the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Ameri
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