Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-07
NEWS OFFER
MEETS FAVOR
Many People Flock to Office
to See Dictionary.

. v u ~ kAC
notable scholar on Webster's New
Standard Dictionary, which is being
distributed through this newspaper
under a remarkable mOney-savlng
offer to the public.
Most of these people came to SEE
the dictionary. The book itself did
the rest.
Those who had brought six con
~secutiye i'd clipped from THE
NEWS instantly took a copy OF the
dictionary. Those who hadn't, went
home to save the six coupons.
E~verbody's comment IN the beau
tifully printed, handsomely leather
hound Volume. which contains more
general and up-tO-date information
than was ever before enclosed in the
covers of a dictionary, was enthusl-
astic The Webster's New Standard
has caught the public fancy INC con-
WINGED the public's mind. Moreover,
the Unprecedented offer of the NEWS
permits anyone, man, woman OF
child. to obtain a copy at a rate
which no pocketbook would Ieei'
Absolutely the only expense to read
ers of THE NEWS is the cost OF
handling and distributing the DOCKS
Six of the copons printed each day
in THE NEWS are all that are re-
ouired besides the small expenses
bonus.
Unlimited Supply Obtained.
BY an arrangement with the pub
fishers THE NEWS has obtained an
unlimited supply of the dictionaries
in three different styles. 1t IS as
absolutely new edition of Moan
Webster's famous work, as will be
shown by a glance at its interesting
~up-to-date charts of statistics ana
the many brand-new words which are
included in it.
This is a dictionary Of today.
Words have histories that must be
continually brought up to the usage
of the moment New words are con
stantlv e~nriching the language. And
Won will find in this volume such re
cent ones as "Brainstorm, BIZ
plane" "~Stoyaine" and "EqulIi-
orator"
Tn Illustrations are a striking
feature of the WebsteT's New stand
ard. There are t~hirty-two pages OF
the most expensive color plates, with
accurate and instructive pictures
such as the ags of all nations, birds
of all varieties in their real colors,
the costumes worn during the last
400 years right down to the hobble
skirt.
The charts are drawn up by ex-
perts. and represent in pictorial
form the most thorough and accurate
statistics on crops, commerce, etc,
os brou o. rheir irsehe minute. The
T~rnft~6eld August IA ESQ is another
mis- carnival prQ~n odium.
along the 81 according to1,ge.
confined NJ, III
AAhTteef1- me eS5rNss for the baby
parade are beginning to ONE in.
tba E f}4Gh IRajddjEtu1agesh that" 13Nnot
necu1iarlv appropriate to a dictiOn-
arv of technical terms. The spelling
and pronunciation of plurals are
given and the use of capitals and
small letters in writing all words
is indicated clearly. The book gives
the past tense and participles Of all
irregular verbs. The pronunciation
of every word is indicated by pho
netic spelling, and the definitions are
presented in a most comprehensive,
vet precise, accurate and a~uthorita-
tive manner.
The work is prefaced by a schol-
arrv treatise on authorizations of the
DOrts Of speech and their grammat-
icaI significance. There is also an
article on the origin of the English
language. showing the ~derivations of
words. As a means of fostering cor
rectness of speech, both spoken and
written, an analysis of the 'Princi-
-. e Ct-Or,r,ar1 Sc OfyaD
Still another Of the up-to-date
features Of the work is the list of
the words which were recommended
for simplifed spelling by the Simpli-
fed Spelling Board. The ordinary
spelling and the simplihed forms are
given side by side. There is also a
key to pronunciation, which Is in
valuable to one who would speak the
language correctly.
Most Serviceable of Books.
For the enrichment OF the average
vocabulary there is not a book on the
market so seryiceable as this. 1t in
cludes proverbs and cO%llOquial eX-
pressions, foreign words and phrases,
Christian names Of men and women,
the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of the United States,
the metric system Of weights and
measures, tables showing the Aberi-
can values of foreign coins, time diff
ferences all over the world, the cleo
toral vote, the Presidents Of the
United States, language of flowers,
language of gems, the origin and
meaning Of the names of all the
States, commercial and legal forms,
familiar illusions, famous charac-
F-4AT-- To- Ea-A IT,