Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-15

OF winch Is UNKNOWN, 6tTdiSH III W tue
dictionary should a person go to
solve his doubts and dissipate his
ignorance. There is hardly phrase,
allusion, abbreviation or word found
in books or papers, or heard in con
versation, but you will, in an I'M
abridged dictionary find full and |
correct explanation, while nearly |
every unfamiliar object in the whole
extent of nature and man, beast, bird,
fish, piece of machinery, fossil, flag,
tree, plant, is not only accurately de-
fined but pictorially illustrated.
The old-fashioned dictionaries con-
tanned only concise exposition of
words. The modern colossal die
tionaries contain o perfect world of
interesting information. The pref.
aces contain the entire history of our
grand English language. At the
close of these volumes you will find
the proper pronunciation of modern
biographical, geographical, Greek
and Latin, and scripture names,
chronologies of the leading events of
the world, brief biographies of nearly
all the great men since Adam, be
sides many departments filled with
matter on score of subjects of the
deepest interest. "What dictionary
shall 1 buy Webster and Wor-
cester are standards for America.
Each is complete and splendid, and
worth its weight in gold. Possibly.
more Prefer Webster. In New
England where these dictionaries
originated, Webster is more gener-
ally found and consulted in the
homes and school-houses of the
people.
| Above everything else then let
there be in every house in the city
andvillage an Unabridged Dictionary
for constant daily refernce. The
first book young man III college, or
away from home in clerkship,
should buy, should be this. But it
at all hazards. Make any sacrifice to
/ get it. Shut down on the new coat,
! or dress, on the tobacco, on anything
until you can be the proud possessor
of Webster or Worcesters magnih-
cent Unabridged Dictionary.
FIRST GLASS ATLAS.
/ Next to standard dictionary is a
first class atlas with maps of all
countries, ancient and modern. The
value and importance Of this intel
lectual help cannot be over stated.
| No one can read history or travels,
or scientific voyages of discovery and
exploration, or have even respect
able knowledge of the world with
out good atlas. Like dictionary,
this should be in the central room of
the house, close at hand, not hid in
a dark closet; not piled foot deep
beneath other volumes. What idea
can person have of the location
and bearing of the events and facts
he reads about, unless by map he
can see the country, the islands, the
mountains, the bays, the seas?
Things become doubly vivid, and a
hundred fold better remembered, if
the places where they occur are see',
on a map. When you sit down to
read book or even to read your
daily paper, have an atlas close be
side you, and when ignorant, look
up the geography of the earth as far
as it bears on your reading.
It is little trouble, but
it will pay thousand fold,
In connection with an atlas, [ would
mention mounted globe" Five
years ago bonght one, about ten
inches in diameter, and | have found
it of immense service. Hardly day
that / do not consult it, even in the
reading of an ordinary newspaper
1t gives an instant glimpse of til e
world as whole, with the contour,
position, relative size and distances OF
its seas, continents, islands, lakes,
rivers, bays, etc. No school room is
considered properly equipped now.
a days without one, and why should
a home? Globes are not expensive
may be bought for few dollars, and
besides their great value in the edu-
cation of a home, and In ones reading
they are certainly an ornamental
object i'll any room of the house.
A STANDARD CyCLoPFDIA
The last help IN the list of the
readers outfit would name, is some
good standard cyclopadia. Such E
work is universal library, al
epitome of universal knowledge
Charles Sumner was one of the mos
learned and best informed men in the
United States Senate It is said O
him that he kept Appleton's Cyclic
padia close by his side, and an ope1
volume of it was almost always seer
on his study table.
The amount of information packed
into cyclopedia onall subjects of his
tory, science, art, biography, politics
statistics, commerce, agriculture, pc
litical economy, manufactures, inven
tan and progress, is truly amazing
In few minutes you can inform
yourself on any subject known t.
man by the possession of a good cy
clopadia. Now the papers are filled
with Ireland, now with the Chill
; Peru war, now with the invasion O
: Tunis by France, now with China
now with the tariff, now with the
!, voyage and wreck of the Jeanette
in the polar seas. Whatever subiec-
comes up in your reading anywhere
upon which you want quick and con
else information, take down your cy
Z, clopadia, and there the information
is just what you want. Nowadays {
standard cyclop@dia is almost ne
cessity to any man who wishes te
keep respectfully intelligent in the
affairs of the world about him.
/ The Britannica is doubtless The
most ponderous encyclopaedia evel