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Webster's Condensed Dictionary. Edited, under the supervision of Noah Porter,

President of Yale College, by Dorsey Gardner. With over 1,500 illustrations. (Routledge and Sons.)—This wonderfully cheap and admirably edited dictionary performs many of the pur- poses of a dictionary better than any which was ever compressed into the same space. It really tells; us by its illustrations what many objects of which the ordinary reader has no clear imaginative conception, really are. This applies especially to the botanical and zoological names, of which the illustrations appear to be admirable.