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[June, 
Tie Superior Hay Spreader 
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Thousands in use giving entire satisfaction. 
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F OUST’S HAY LOADER, Improved for 
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ECONOMY - IN 
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THE 
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Webster’s UnaMpd Dictionary. 
u The best practical English Dictionary 
extant.” London Quarterly Review, Oct., 1873. 
A NEW FEATURE. 
To the 3,000 Illustrations heretofore in Webster’s 
Unabridged we have recently added four pages of 
COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS, 
engraved and printed expressly for the work, at large 
expense, viz.: 
ARMS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. 
ARMS OF VARIOUS NATIONS. 
FLAGS OF VARIOUS NATIONS. 
UNITED STATES NAVAL FLAGS, &c. 
Thus adding another to the many useful and attractive 
features of Webster’s Unabridged. 
National Standard. 
PROOF.—20 TO 1. 
The sales of Webster’s Dictionaries throughout the 
country in 1S73 were 20 times as large as the sales of any 
other Dictionaries. In proof will he sent to any person, 
on application, the statements of more than 100 book¬ 
sellers, from every section of the country. 
Published by G. & C. MUKKIAM, Springfield,Mass. 
“ The Best Authority, Worcester's Large 
Dictionary.”— Hon. Charles Sumner. 
JHE gXANDA{\P- 
TESTIMONY FROM HIGH AUTHORITY. 
Library of Congress, Washington, Feb. 17,1S75. 
Gentlemen:— The report having been made that Web¬ 
ster’s English Dictionary is adopted as the standard by 
national officers, to the exclusion of Worcester’s, I take oc¬ 
casion to say that so far as the Library of Congress is con¬ 
cerned, Webster lias never been followed in orthography in 
printing its catalogues, reports, or any other documents. 
On the contrary, wherever proofs from the Congressional 
Printing Office embody the innovations upon English ortho¬ 
graphy which Webster introduced, they are invariably re¬ 
turned with corrections restoring the established spelling, 
as represented by Worcester and the usage of all great 
English writers. Very Repectfnlly, 
A. R. SPOFFORD, 
Librarian of Congress. 
Sunnyside, June 25, 1S51. 
Dear Sir:— Several months since I received from Messrs. 
G. & C. Merriam a copy of their quarto edition of Webster’s 
Dictionary. In acknowledging the receipt of it, I expressly 
informed them that I did not make it my standard of ortho¬ 
graphy, and gave them my reason? for not doing so, and for 
considering it an unsafe standard for American writers to 
adopt. At the same time I observed the work had so much 
merit in many respects, that I made it quite a vade-mecum. 
They had the disingenuousness to extract merely the part 
of my opinion which I have underlined, and to insert it 
among their puffs and advertisements, as if I had given a 
general and unqualified approbation of the work. I have 
hitherto suffered this bookseller’s trick to pass.unnoticed; 
but your letter obliges me to point it out, and to express my 
decided opinion that Webster's Dictionary is NOT a work 
advisable to be introduced “by authority” into our schools 
as a standard of orthography. 
I am, Sir, with great respect, 
Your obedient servant, 
WASHINGTON IRVING. 
To the lion. JAS. W. BEEKMAN, 
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Literature. 
Worcester’s Dictionaries for sale by Book¬ 
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