SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES 
WEBSTER 
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INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY 
( THE NEW UNk BRIDGED) 
PUBLISHED BY 
G. & C. MERRIAM & CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
Webster’s School Dictionaries 
PUBLISHED BY 
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, New York, Cincinnati, Chioago 
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 'he 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 orthography 
have been the one practically universal element in American education. 
Thus Webster 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 anyone 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 importance 
that Webster’s School Dictionaries, should be placed in the hands of every child in 
the schools of the country. 
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 
NEW YORK 
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CINCINNATI 
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