Show WEBSTERS NEW international dictionary websters international dictionary has long been recognized as easily the first of its class alike for the scholar and the unlettered man with its predecessors is sued by the same publishers it has made webster a popular synonym for dictionary to surpass or supersede such a book might seem well nigh impossible yet this has been effectually accomplished by the skillful and assiduous toil of a company of trained scholars working together for many years enforced reinforced re by a wide circle of eminent experts following the webster traditions and amplifying them by the latest modern knowledge and backed by an expenditure pend iture commensurate with the purpose to get the best in every particular the result is now presented to the world in websters new international dictionary judging the book first by its outside it is dressed in an even handsomer and no less substantial binding than its predecessor and the typography and all the mechanical ch anical features are in the best style of the riverside press than which there is no better all copies are supplied with the convenient thumb index compared with the old international the volume shows to the eye no increase of size and it is quite as easy to handle but it has some more pages about 2700 as against 2300 while the paper though thinner is better belter than the old this increase of pages represents only a fraction of the most 0 obvious gain in respect to the literary contents of the book namely the increased amount the variety and ingenuity of resources by which space has been gained will be recognized by the literary expert as an extraordinary achievement in the bookmaking art |