New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-22

According to Webster" is one of the
frmest rules in all the best publishing
| houses in the United States, and as we are
informed, in England. The dictionary of
the great American photographer and
scholar done more to secure uniformity
Of lang Re in our country than all other
agencies combined. Since he compiled and
published his book, more than half a Gen.
fury ago, it has been the standard with
more thar three-fourths Of the English speak
ing people of the world, and has afforded a
guide for subsequent compilers.
Messrs. G. & c. Merriam, of Springfield.
Massachusetts, have prepared and published
superb edition Of the unabridged diction-
AIRY. containing 1910 pages quarto, and 5000
Illustrations. Nothing equal to this work
ever before came from he'press. 1t is at
once triumph in both learning and art.
creditable to the publishers and their coun.
try. The Richmond Wing thus notices the
great book of the age:
MAGNIFICENT LITERARY FABRIC.
"ebster's Quarto Dictionary has passed
through various editions, each an improve
ment upon and an enlargement of the pre-.
ceding. until it has eliminated in the present
magnificent literary and linguistic fabric.
The reputation of this work is not confined
to America. We find it stated that in the
Alexander case, tried in the Court of Ex-
chequer at Westminster Hall, under purely
English II, no other dictionary, English
or Amer was quoted or alluded to than
his. The Lord Chief Baron. in his decision.
pronounced 'Webster's Dictionary work
of the greatest learning, research and
ability" Besides the numerous illustrations
with which the volume is interspersed, there
are at the end sixty-seven pages of the most
finished pictorial illustrations. representing
almost every conceivable object in nature,
science and art. Il would be unnecessary,
II we We're competent to the task, to SUBJ
ject this work to a critical analysis. Its re-
putat!on is firmly established. 1t is built
upon rock and can bid defiance to any
petty storm that the critics can raise.
The following is from the New York
Times:
RESULT OF CENTURIES OF CULTURE.
The successive editions of Websters
Unabridged are as perennial in interest as
in value Each successive reprint finds the
work of our great photographer still unri-
vailed among English dictionaries. In each
republication we likewise find mirror Of
the scientific progress of the age, sleepless
vigilance which nothing escapes, to catch
every new shade of verbal significance, and
to retain for our unapproachable standard
Of language, that freshness which preserves
it from ever becoming Old. In the one
thousand eight hundred and forty pages
before us there are compressed the results
OF centuries Of culture, and the sum of
the intellectual contributions of some of
the greatest minds of the race. " hether
regarded as whole, or i'll detail. the book
is equally marvellous. It's illustrations are
copious, appropriate and carefully exc
cuted The matter in the appendix is Of a
character indispensable for reference to ali
who read, and to all who write with serious
purpose. The book is, in short. one which
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