WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY. NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION, OVER 3000 FINE ENGRAVINGS. 10,000 WORDS AND MEANINGS NOT FOUND IN OTHER DICTIONARIES. Several tables of great value, one of them of fifty quarto pages, Explanatory and Pronouncing, of names in fiction, of persons and places, pseudonyms, &c., &c., as Abaddon, Acadia, Albany Regency, Mother Cary, Mason and Dixon's Line, Mr. Micawber, &c. Containing one-fifth or one-fourth more matter than any former editions. From new electrotype plates and the Riverside Press. GREATEST ADDITION TO PHILOLOGY IN HALF A CENTURY.-The most important contribution to Philology, during the year 1864, was the publication of the illustrated edition of Webster's Quarto Unabridged Dictionary. This work, which had long been in preparation, and on the revision of which years of labor had been bestowed by several eminent scholars, was in many respects, the greatest addition to the philology of the present age which has appeared within half a century.— Appleton's Cyclopædia for 1864. MORE VALUABLE THAN TREASURY NOTES.-How that old cynic, Sam Johnson, would have revelled through Webster's massive new Unabridged! How he would have gloated over its magnificent letter-press and its illustrations, beautiful as new Treasury Notes, and much more valuable to the student. The Merriams have incurred a fabulous expense in having the whole work rewritten, reset, recast, and republished. It is not a mere revision, but a reconstruction. To insure excellence in typography, it comes from the Riverside Press, which is all that need be said about its mechanical execution. It is a marvellous specimen of learning, labor, research, and taste. It is by far the greatest literary work of the age.-Baltimore American. THE NEW WEBSTER A NEW WORK.-We have commended this edition warmly already, on the faith of our first examination of it. It has grown upon us, in every day's farther study. We did not, at first, comprehend how entirely new a work this is, as compared even with the last preceding edition; and how important had been the etymological revision which it has received, making it, for substance, a rewritten volume, with all that was admirable and superior in the previous contributions of a generation to its pages, preserved and augmented by a thorough concentration upon it of the best skill and widest research of the present. As it stands,-in its etymologies, in its definitions, in its synonyms, and in its (real) illustrations.-it is far in advance of any other manual which offers itself to the aid of the student of the multifarious wealth of the composite English tongue. It is not a sectarian dictionary. We do most sincerely believe that all sects will find their especial phrases of faith more exactly and fairly and fully given in Webster than in any or all others put together.-Boston Congregationalist. No pains or labor could have been spared in making this edition what it is. We think this work, now, is all that we can expect in a dictionary. We give it our unqualified commendation, and hope to see a copy of it in every school-district, and in every editor's room, and in every family in Pennsylvania.-Presbyterian Standard. SUM TOTAL OF GREAT LIBRARIES.-We have had much to do with dictionaries, first and last; have turned over a thousand pounds of them, perhaps; have watched new editions rising in stately fashion, and found the best were set on Webster's sure foundations. What we have written of Webster's work, while it has been in all truthfulness, has also been in all love. We have a warm filial feeling for it and for him; grateful to Webster for earliest lessons and for latest teachings; grateful to God, that, while He gave us English for our mother-tongue, He gave us a man so worthy to record and expound it; men so worthy to continue the work he so nobly begun. And we put that mothertongue to a sacred use when we utter the truthful words that these three books are the sum total of great libraries:-the Bible, Shakspeare, and Webster's Royal Quarto.-Chicago Evening Journal. IN ONE VOLUME OF 1840 ROYAL QUARTO PAGES. "GET THE LATEST!" "GET THE BEST!" "GET WEBSTER!" Published by G. & C. MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass. THE HORTICULTURIST FOR 1866 WILL BE FULLY ILLUSTRATED. THE BEST TALENT IN THE COUNTRY IS ENGAGED FOR THE EDITORIAL COLUMNS. THE VOLUME FOR 1866 WILL BE THE BEST EVER PUBLISHED. 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