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The scholars are beginning to appreciate the difference between guessing at the import of the terms used in their text-books, and knowing their meaning with precision and exactness. Acopy of the work, furnished by the State, had been in use in my school-room in Boston, during the two years preceding my removal to this place, and it was used more than all the other books of reference in the Library, which contained a good selection of that class of books. My observation of its utility in a public school has fully convinced me that it is just the thing needed in every District School in the land This great work is the product of the State of Connecticut, and she ought to have taken the lead in furnishing it to all her schools, for the use of all her children. I know of no means whereby the common schools of the State could be benefited more at the same expense than by placing a copy in every school-house. I hope the day is not distant when the State will confer this blessing on her children. Very respectfully yours, JOHN D. PHILBRICK. From ISAAC F. SHEPARD, Esq., Principal of the Lyman School. Boston, April 27, 1858. MESSRS. G. & C. MERRIAM-GENTLEMEN: I take pleasure in adding my testimony to the great value of WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED AMERICAN DICTIONARY. In my labors as a teacher in the Boston Schools for ten years, I have not been without the work, for reference at all times, by both Assistants and Pupils. I consider it an invaluable companion; and in the Etymology and Definitions of the language, strict, faithful, copious and understandable; in short, just what is needed by every man, woman and child in the Union, who would know the language we use. 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