WEBSTER'S 



International Dictionary 



{THE NEW UNABRIDGED) 



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Webster's School Dictionaries 



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WEBSTER'S PRIMARY DICTIONARY 

 WEBSTER'S COMMON-SCHOOL DICTIONARY 

 WEBSTER'S HIGH-SCHOOL DICTIONARY 

 WEBSTER'S ACADEMIC DICTIONARY 



WEBSTER'S DICTIONARIES have been officially recommended by the 

 State Educational Authorities of nearly every State in the Union. 



THE LEADING SERIES of School Books published in this country, em- 

 bracing over 25,000,000 Volumes published annually, are based upon Webster. 



From the earliest days of the Republic, Webster and Webster's orthog- 

 raphy have been the one practically universal element in American education. 



Thus W^ebster has been an important bond in uniting and keeping the American 

 nation one people in their language, speech, and all the outward forms of thought. 



While in Great Britain, to quote an eminent authority, ** nearly every county 

 has its local dialect, its peculiar words and forms," our own vast and diversified 

 country, with its local forms of self-government, its widely varied social types and 

 industries, and, more than all, its ingathering of vast numbers from all nations and 

 languages, easily assimilates all forms of speech, and maintains in universal and 

 uniform purity the noble legacy of our language undefiled. 



Can any one doubt that this easy victory over the most varied and corrupting 

 agencies is mainly due to Webster's Dictionaries ? 



The attention of educators and of all friends of universal education is solicited to 

 the importance of perpetuating this purity of American speech by maintaining the 

 authority of Webster in every public and private school in the land. 



While it is of the highest importance that Webster's Unabridged should be 

 upon the teacher's desk or reference table of every school-room, it is of equal impor- 

 tance that ^Vebster's School Dictionaries should be placed in the hands of every 

 child in the schools of the country. 



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