Standard home and school dictionary

Containing literary, scientific, encyclopedic and pronouncing features. Based on the latest and best authorities. Together with a concise history of the English language, foreign words, and phrases, abbreviations used in writing and painting, rules of punctuation, etc., business and letter-writing forms, Table of weights and measures, statistics of all the states, christian names of men and women with their meanings, parliamentary rules of order, postage and postal regulations, patent and copyright laws, etc., etc. Comprising hundreds of every-day helps

Edited, revised and enlarged by prof. C. M. Stevans, Ph. D. Over twelve hundred illustrations and numerous full-page plates