can scholar ever performed; and it was labor under the direction of such comprehensive knowledge, and sound and discriminating judgement, united with good taste, that the work it produced was in all respects as near perfection as human powers permit. Nor is the character of this gigantic work established in our own country through a blind partiality and self-love; for long since the same verdict was rendered in England and Europe, where Webster has displaced Johnson and other lexicographers, as well as here. It is an interesting fact, which may be named in this connection, that while Commodore Perry opened Japan with its thirty or forty millions of people to commerce, Noah Webster opened it to the English or as they first called it, the American language, by his great Dictionary, which was used by the first Japanese youth who mastered our language, and is now used in Jeddo, and will continue to be used in all coming time as a standard authority by a population equal to our own, and as fond of books and, as well furnished with common schools.-This is no small honor to the author, and to our conntry and name. The noble volume of the Dictionary unabridged contains no less than seventeen hundred and fifty pages. The pictorial illustrations are a new feature in a dictionary, pleasing the eye, and at the same time giving more correct ideas of various objects and subjects The various tables than any definitions or descriptions could do. at the end are of great value, and some of them of practical utility; -while the learned and elaborate introduction will be of rare interest to the more advanced and general scholar. Every family should posses a copy of the unabridged, and every scholar a copy of the abridged, containing about five hundred pages, and all the tables of the most importance in the large Dictionary. The paper and type could hardly be improved, while the binding is so subLet every stantial as to be capable of injury only from violence. family and scholar posess a Dictionary, and let that Dictionary be the best, and then it will be WEBSTER'S-[Cor. Port. Jour. Nov. 15. A Special Meeting of the Orleans Co. 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