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country, where many of them, now unknown to literature, survive 
in the popular dialects of different counties. Anglicisms also, if we 
those numerous terms peculiar to the English Universities, which have 
so often piqued at once and baffled their curiosity. As respects the 
present English use of words, the Editor has not depended wholly upon 
books, but has sought to secure the requisite thoroughness and accuracy 
by constant correspondence with literary friends in that country. 
Dr. Webster’s innovations in orthography have been made the sub- 
ject of loud and often undistinguishing complaint. Professor Goodrich 
in some very interesting and judicious remarks divides them into two 
classes ; one, in which Dr. Webster has only applied to a few excep- 
tional cases, analogies which have already become extensively preva- 
lent in the language ; the other, in which without the guidance of any 
Such general analogies he proposed a new mode of spelling, as better 
Suited to the etymology. To the latter class, Dr. Webster himself had, 
im many instances, restored the established spelling: in the present 
edition it is restored to nearly all the rest. Most words on which usage 
differs are given here according to the different modes in use. Pro- 
hunciation also has been carefully attended to, with the view of making 
the work at once accurate and complete as a Pronouncing Dictionary. 
¥ pronouncing tables of proper names appended to the work add 
Not a little to its value. These are a table of Scriptural names pre- 
pared by Professor Porter; Walker’s table of Greek and Latin proper 
names revised by Professor Thacher, with additions and corrections; 
and a table of modern geographical names, prepared un er the super- 
intendence of Professor Porter. _Prefixed to the last are brief rules for 
© pronunciation of the principal European languages, which will con- 
tribute essentially to the convenience of the general reader. _ 
The whole work is appropriately introduced by an interesting me- 
Moir of the eminent and indefatigable man, who left the American 
Dictionary as a legacy to posterity, a monument of his own fame, and 
a lasting honor to his American fatherland. 
(equivalent of the Lower Silurian Rocks of Europe,) by 
338 pp. 4to, on plates 1 to 88, and 10 ah aris intercalated. Albany, 
N. Y., 1847.—It affords us great pleasure to announce the completion 
of this volume of the Paleontology of New York, by its able author, Mr. 
J. Hall. The field occupied by his labors is one of the most interesting 
in the world, as well for the multiplicity of forms as the number and 
extent of the strata included. The present volume embraces the lower 
as of the fossiliferous strata below the coal, or the lower Silurian. But 
‘Species of fossils from their strata were described when the work 
was begun; and this number has been increased in the course of Mr. 
