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Recently adopted for North Carolina and West Virginia. Used exclusively in the Boston schools. "Worcester's Dictionaries should be used by the youth of the country and adopted in the common schools."-New York Evening Post. THE STANDARD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. "In 1860, the Faculty of the University of Virginia adopted Worcester as their standard, and are now stronger than ever in their adherence to it as their standard. The following is a copy of the resolutions taken from the record of the University : "At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia, held July 7, 1860, Professor Holmes offered the following resolutions: "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Faculty, Worcester's Dictionary affords the most reliable authority for the orthography of the English language. "Resolved, Therefore, that Worcester's Dictionary is, for the present, recognized as the standard for propriety in this respect.' They were passed." WORCESTER is generally regarded as the STANDARD AUTHORITY for the English language, and is so recommended by Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Sumner, Holmes, Irving. Winthrop, Agassiz, Marsh, Henry Everett, Mann, Stephens, Quincy, Felton, Hilliard, Memminger, and the majority, our most distinguished scholars, and is, besides, recognized as authority by the Departments of our National Governments. It is also adopted by many of the Boards of Public Instruction, and in all the large newspaper offices in the United States and England. Descriptive Catalogues, containing full lists of our educational publications sent to any address on application. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Publishers, 715 and 717 Market Street, Philadelphia. THE STANDARD DICTIONARY. The best practical English Dictionary extant.-Quarterly Review, London. In various Styles of Binding, with The Attention of School Officers, and others, is invited to the fact that in purchasing the latest issue of this work, they get A DICTIONARY containing 3000 more words and nearly 2000 more illustrations than any other American Dictionary, A GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD containing over 25,000 Titles, with their pronunciation and a vast amount of other information, (Just Added, 1885) and A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY giving pronunciation of names and brief facts concerning nearly 10,000 Noted Persons; also various tables giving valuable information. ALL IN ONE BOOK. The Gazetteer and Biographical Dictionary are features WEBSTER IN VIRGINIA. B. PURYEAR, LL. D., Chairman of Faculty, Richmond College. JAMES F. HARRISON, M. D., Chairman of Faculty, University of Virginia. GEN. FRANCIS H. SMITH, LL. D., Supt. Virginia Military Institute. CHAS. L. COCKE, A. M., Sup't Hollins Institute. REV. E. E. WILEY, D. D., Pres't Martha Washington College. REV, WM. A. HARRIS, D. D., Pres't Wesleyan Female Institute. GEN. GEO. W. CUSTIS LEE, Pres't Washington and Lee University. REV. J. L. KIRKPATRICK, D. D., Prof. Washington and Lee University. EDWARD S. JOYNES, M. A., LL. D. Late Prof. Washington and Lee University. REV. E. E. HOSS, M. A., Emory and Henry College. JULIUS D. DREHER, A. M. Ph.D., Pres't Roanoke College. PROF. J. H. POWELL, Prin. Richmond Female Seminary. M. J. BALDWIN, Pres't Augusta Female Seminary. REV. J. M. P. ATKINSON, D. D., Pres't Hampden and Sidney College. REV. J. J. SCHERER, A. M., Pres't Marion Female College. PROF. J. T. AVERETT, Roanoke Female College. In 1882 a majority of the counties and cities of Virginia made a selection of Dictionaries for use in their Schools. Of this number, ninety-six per cent. favored and adopted Webster's Dictionaries in preference to all others. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary has been recommended by State Superintendents of Public Schools of thirty-six different States, nearly all of whom express the desire that a copy be placed in the Public Schools of their respective States. Nearly all the College Presidents of the United States recommend Webster's Unabridged. Forty thousand copies of Webster's Unabridged have been placed in as many Public Schools of the United States, by State enactment or the action of School authorities. Twenty million School Books, based on Webster, are published annually. Every State purchase of Dictionaries for Schools has been Webster's. Webster's is the Dictionary used as authority in the Government Printing Office, and by the Supreme Court of the U. S. at Washington. The sale of Webster's Dictionaries is believed, by the testimony of Booksellers, to be at least twenty times as large as that of any other series of Dictionaries. Do not these facts show that WEBSTER IS THE NATIONAL STANDARD? 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