The Washington times., 1913-11-17
NEW STANDARD IS
GREAT DICTIONARY
Large Store of Information on
Every Subject Contained in
Excellent Work.

/ There is a great deal said nowadays
about correlating school and college
work with life-work: that is, of bring
| ing the school into touch with the home
and shop and office and field and mine,
! So that education shall De fitting
| for life. 1t is not meant that education
shall be confined to training in the art
of getting on in the world. but that
! it shall be the development of the char
acter and powers of the individual with
reference to fitting him both to get
from the world and to give to the world
the best as well as the most of which
he IS capable, and which his environ
ment makes possible
I This change in the schools is reflected
in a book which comes nearer than any
other to being a school and a school,
master for everybody. 1t is the New
Standard Dictionary just published by
the Funk & Wagnalls Company of New
York This dictionary is a book OF
things rather than book OF words.
The work is a revision of the Stand
ard Dictionary first issued in 1894. The
New Standard Dictionary now on the
market has all the virtues OF the Garner
edition and adds to them number OF
question the most valuable and usable
storehouse of information and instruc-
, ton ever furnished to English-speak-
ing people in anything like its compass
Vocabulary Complete.
A few of the features which make the
: New Standard Dictionary without quail
ification the best dictionary for world
/, wide use are considered in the follow
ing paragraphs:
/. Its vocabulary is complete. The
hook records and defines over $4,000
terms-at least $4,000 more than any
ether dictionary. irrespective OF size.
: The definition in the New Standard
dictionary are in character and in form
more efficient definitions-that is. serv-
ing their purpose better-than can be
! found in any other dictionary. the
meanings are given in the order OF their
commonness. The usual or prevailing
| sense of the word is firt defined, then
| its less common uses. There are two
saves in the aggregate an immense
| amount of time, because among any
number of users the majority flhd tieir
! questions answered by the first dellnl-
| tion. they need go no further; OF tEe
remainder, some stop with the second
| others with the third, and so OH.
| NOT only the form or arrangement
/ brt the quality or character oil the
New Standard definitions make them
the hest to be found in English dc
| +ionaries The definitions actually de-
fine. They are not lists OF near
synonyms. -
I 2, The matter furnished in the New
| Standard supplementary to the dehnl-
! ton. as (for example) the illustra-
tive quotations, and the distinctions
in
| in quality that in any other com
| pleted dictionary. Not only are the
New standard quotations freshest and
aptest taken from current magazines
I and newspapers as well as from
| books of standard literary character,
] but many of them have more than
| illustrative power. they define while
| they illustrate.
Distinction of Synonyms.
In the distinction of synonyms, the
New Standard Dictionary is unequal
ed by any other in the number of
| words distinguished, and in the clear
ness and precision with which the
! distinctions are drawn and stated.
! Supplementary to the synonyms, lists
| of antonyms are given.
| f. The New Standard Dictionary aims
! TO give exact information. For eX-
ample. with every biographical or his
! torical fact the exact date, when
! known. Is given. Not only is the in
! formation more exact; ii is more com
! plete than in any similar work. With
! geographical names 1t gives more de-
| scriptiVe and historical matter. The
| New Standard Dictionary viii be found
to give in the aggregate rcOre facts in
| history, geography. biography. etc,
| than any similar work.
| Furthermore, these facts are at once
accessible by being entered in alpha
| betiCal place in the main vocabulary.
| Foreign phases and statistics Of pop
| ulatiOn, which are subject to regular
and frequent revision. form the only
| encyclopedia matter relegated to an Ap-
pendx.
Encyclopedia Matter.
! S. The New Standard Dictionary,
asidet from its treatment of proper
names of all kinds, supplies an amaz-
! ing amount of encyclopedia matter in
connection with the discussion and ex-
! pIanation of common terms. When
! terms cannot be thus treated a COM
| plete discussion can, nevertheless, be
! put together from the dictionary by use
| Of the excellent system of cross-refer-
| ences
| The encyclopedia matter referred to
| is not limited to information for the mat
| ter-of-fact man about merely physical
| things. as the earth. the heavens. foods.
soils machinery. processes of manufac-
| turing and fields Of industry. The whole
range Of human knowledge is embodied
| in the one book.
Reason for Worth.
! This iS uby tho New STANDARD Die