AN APPENDIX

Showing the Pronunciation of nearly 3000 of the most important Geographical Naroes. One volume 12mo, of near 600 pages, neatly bound in leather. Price $1 00.

Among the wants of our time was a good Dictionary of our own language, especially adapted for académies and schools. The books which hâve bng been in use were of little value to the :uniir students, being too concise in the définitions, and immethodieal in the arrangement. Reid's English Dictionary was compiled expressly to develop the précise analogies and various properties of the authorized words in gênerai use, by the standard authors and orators who use our vemacuJar tongue.

Exclusive of the large numbers of proper names which are appended, this Dictionary inéludes four especial improvemenls — and when their essential value to the student is considered, the sterling character of the work as a hand-book of our language will be instantly perceived.

The primitive word is distinguished by a larger type ; and where there are any derivatives r'u;m it, they follow in alphabetical order, and the part of speech is appended, thus furnishing a Cjmplete classification of ail the connected analog< us words of the same speeies.

With tliis facility to comrsjehend accurately the determinate meaning of the English word, ri conjoined a rich illustration for the linguist. The dérivation of ail the primitive words is distinctly given, and the phrases of the languages whence they are deduced, wheiher composite or simple ; so that the student of foreign languages, hoth ancient and modem, by a référence to any word, can ascertain the sourie whence it ban been adopted into our own f^rm of speech. This is a great acquisition to the person who is taxions to u>e words in their utmo?t clearnessof meaning.

To thèse advantages is subjoined a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, which is of peculiar value to the collegian. The fifty pages which it includes, furnish the linguist with a wide-spread field of research, equally amusing and instructive. There is also added an Aceente»! List, to the number of fifteen thou-and, of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.

With such novel attractions, and with suc!» décisive merits, the recommendations whioh are prefixed to the work by Professors Frost, Henry, Parks, and Reed, Messrs. Baker and Greene, principals of the two chief grammar schools at Boston, and by Dr. Reese, Superintendent of Comnv.-n Schools for the city and cotinty of New-York, are justly due to the labon of the author. They fully cor borate th-« opinion expressed by several other compétent authorities, that " Reid's Eng!i>h Dictionary is peculiarly adapted for the use of schools and families, and is far •uperior to any other existing similar compilation."

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