The home library . diture will yield such high returns. After the Bible, the most important book in a library,and the first to be bought, is a dictionary. There is littleto choose between Webster and Worcester. In the end,the Unabridged is cheaper than the shorter editions, be-cause of the mass of other than merely philological in-formation which it contains. In reality, the UnabridgedAmerican Dictionary is a sort of condensed smaller dictionaries are more easily handled, and may,therefore, be more readily consulted. The new CenturyDictionary, revised by Professor W. D. Whitn
The home library . diture will yield such high returns. After the Bible, the most important book in a library,and the first to be bought, is a dictionary. There is littleto choose between Webster and Worcester. In the end,the Unabridged is cheaper than the shorter editions, be-cause of the mass of other than merely philological in-formation which it contains. In reality, the UnabridgedAmerican Dictionary is a sort of condensed smaller dictionaries are more easily handled, and may,therefore, be more readily consulted. The new CenturyDictionary, revised by Professor W. D. Whitney, will ap-pear in four volumes, and, although as full as the Una-bridged Webster or Worcester, its separate volumes will 16 THE HOME LIBRAEY. be much handier. It is well to have the Unabridged,improved by Denisons Economy Index (Fig. 1). It is Fig. 1. well to keep it mounted on the light wire dictionary-holder (Figs. 2 and 3), which makes it easy to carry fromroom to room, and easy to consult, as it needs no sub-homelibrary00matt. 21
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