Outlines of Amer. Lit., 443; 8. G. Goodrich's Recollec.; Parton's Life of Jackson, and his Famous Americans, 1867, 12mo, (see, also, N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1867, art. Boston, August, 1816; M.C., 1813-17 and 1823-27, and | Tuckerman's Sketch of American Literature, in Shaw's U. S. Senator, 1828-41 and 1845-50; visited England, Scotland, and France, 1839; Secretary of State under Harrison, 1841, under Tyler, 1841-43, and under Fillmore, July 20, 1850, until his death, at his seat at Marsh-iii. :) Famous Boys, and How they became Great Men, field, Mass., October 24, 1852. His Speeches and Forensic Arguments were published in Boston, 3 vols. 8vo: vol. i., 1830, &c.; ii., 1835, &c.; ii., 1843, &c.; vols. i., ii., iii., 8th ed., 1841. See reviews in N. Amer. Rev., xli. 231, (by E. Everett,) lix. 44, (by E. P. Whipple: repub. in his Essays and Reviews, 1852, i. 172.) His Diplomatic and Official Papers whilst Secretary of State were issued in New York, 1848, 8vo. Lists of his single speeches, &c., and publications concerning him, will be found in Cat. Lib. Mass. Hist. Soc., 1860, ii. 578-581, and Cat. Pub. Lib. of the City of Boston, 1861, 875-877. The former collections of his writings were superseded by the following: The Speeches, Forensic Arguments, and Diplomatic Papers of Daniel Webster; with a Notice of his Life and Writings by Hon. Edward Everett, Boston, (Little, Brown & Co.,) 1851, 6 vols. 8vo; 1. p., r. 8vo; 11th ed., 1858, (Fowle, Dec. 1864, 769, $120;) new ed., 1864. Sale to Jan. 1, 1865, about 30,000 copies, and on 1. p., 300 copies. Reviewed in N. Amer. Rev., 1xxv. 84, (by Francis Bowen.) These volumes should be accompanied by The Private Correspondence [1798-1852] of Daniel Webster; Edited by [his son] Fletcher Webster, (Dec. 1856,) 1857, 2 vols. 8vo; 1. p., r. 8vo, (Fowle, ut sup., 770, $40;) 4th ed., 1857; last ed., 1864. Sale to Jan. 1, 1865, nearly 5000 copies, and of 1. p. nearly 300 copies. These volumes contain nearly 1000 letters from, and several hundred letters to, Daniel Webster. "Simple and straightforward, these letters [of Mr. Webster] are models of a homely business style: they teem with illus trations of early struggles, of party tactics, of domestic cares, and public responsibilities; with graphic touches of character, and with side-long glimpses into American manners and institutions."-Lon. Critic, 1858. See, also, Chris. Exam., 1857. He contributed four papers to the North American Review: vols. iv. 107, vii. 225, viii. 63, xi. 197. For references to Mr. Webster and accounts of his life, character, and services, see BANVARD, REV. JOSEPH, (The American Statesman, &c., 1853;) CURTIS, GEORGE TICKNOR, No. 9; EVERETT, EDWARD, (pp. 570, 571;) GRAY, FRANCIS CALLEY, LL.D., No. 3; HAYNE, ROBERT Y.; HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN, No. 6, (sale of Memorial to Jan. 1, 1865, 2000 copies;) KNAPP, SAMUEL LORENZO, No. 11; LANMAN, CHARLES, No. 9; LYMAN, S. P.; MARCH, C. W., No. 1; MARRYAT, FREDERICK, No. 14; PARKER, JOEL, LL.D., No. 2; SCHMUCKER, SAMUEL MOSHEIM, LL.D., No. 17; STUART, MOSES, No. 27; TEFFT, BENJAMIN, D.D., LL.D., No. 4; TICK NOR, GEORGE, LL.D., No. 6; WALKER, TIMOTHY, LL.D., No. 8. 1860, 18mo; Trübner's Guide to Amer. Lit., ed. 1859, Ixi.; Wallace's Reporters, ed. 1855, 212, n.; G. P. Marsh's Lects. on the English Language, 1860, 235; Schaff's Germany, 82; H. Martineau's Society in America; Gilfillan's First Gallery of Lit. Portraits, (Ralph Waldo Emerson,) 3d ed.; Smyth's Lects. on French Revolution; Mem. of Rev. Sydney Smith, i. ch. x.; Miss Mitford's Recollec. of a Lit. Life, xviii., xxxix.; Mrs. Farrar's Recollec. of Seventy Years, 1866, 16mo; and the following articles in periodicals: Brit. and For. Rev., xiii. 509; Lon. Quar. Rev., Ixvii. 42, (by A. Hayward ;) Edin. Rev., cxii. 339, 364, 369; Blackw. Mag., xvii. 203, (by John Neal;) Lon. Athen., 1835, 12, 52, 668; 1853, 286: 1854, 373; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1835, 55, 1097; Grant's Lon. Jour., No. 1, (by the author of Random Recollec., &c. ;) N. Eng. Genealog. Reg., vii. 101, ix. 159; Amer. Quar. Rev., June, 1831, 420, (by George Ticknor;) Amer. Almanac, 1854, 329: Niles's Reg., xxxiv. 273, xxxvii. 207, xl. 98, xliii. 106, 186, Supp., 170, 240, xliv. 316, 361, xlv. 107, 418, xlvii. 108, xlix. 166; N. Amer. Rev., x. 83, (by W. Dutton,) xv. 21, (by C. Cushing,) lx. 352, (by W. B. Lawrence,) Ixviii. 1, (by G. T. Curtis,) Ixxi. 221, 240, 254, 265, 266, (by F. Bowen,) Ixxv. 84, (by F. Bowen,) lxxvi. 263, lxxix. 153, (by E. P. Whipple;) American Whig Review, iv. 81, (same in Liv. Age, xii. 44;) Democratic Review, xxii. 129; Brownson's Quar. Rev., 2d Ser., v. 198, vi. 341; South. Quar. Rev., xviii. 509; South. Lit. Mess., iii. 759, ix. 749, x. 25; Amer. Mon. Rev., i. 67; Amer. Bibl. Repos., vi. 232; New Eng. Mag., vii. 89, (by Judge Story;) New Englander, iii. 89; U.S. Lit. Gaz., ii. 327; Knicker., xxx. 442, (by H. B. Wallace;) Liv. Age, xxiii. 128, xliii. 596; Hist. Mag., 1857, 1858, Indexes. For many of these references to periodicals we are indebted to Poole's Index to Period. Lit., ed. 1853, 172, 506, q. v. for special titles, e.g.: Webster and Hayne: Niles's Reg., xxxvii. 415, 435, xxxviii. 10, 25, and Supp.; Am. Reg., v. 62, (by A. H. Everett;) N. Amer. Rev., xxxi. 462, (by E. Everett ;) Chris. Quar. Spec., ii. 517, (by L. Bacon;) South. Rev., vi. 140; Liv. Age, xxiv. 445, (by C. W. March.) For Hayne's opinion of Webster's speech against his views, see Webster's Works, ed. 1852, ii. 387. We are not left in doubt as to Mr. Webster's own estimate respecting the relative importance of his public addresses: "My speech [January 26, 1830] in reply to Mr. Hayne. speech of the 7th of March, 1850, [For the Union and the Conmust be regarded as No. 1 among my political efforts. My stitution, in the Senate of the United States,] is probably the most important effort of my life, and as likely as any other to be often referred to."-Letters to Edward Everett, Feb. 3, 1851, and Sept. 1851: Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, 1857, ii. 415, 473. See, also, The Beauties of Daniel Webster, Edited by D. M. Reese, N. York, 1839, 12mo; Constitutional TextBook: Selections from the Writings of Webster, &c., 1854, 12mo; The Union Text-Book, containing Selec tions from the Writings of Webster, &c., Phila., Nov. 1860; and notices of Webster in the following: Proceed. connected with the Reception of Mr. Webster by the City of Boston in July, 1852, 1852, 8vo; Proceed. in Congress with Reference to the Death of Mr. Webster, with the Sermon of Dr. Butler, 1853, 8vo; Personal Memorials of Webster; Life of Webster, 1853, 16mo; Discourse at Dartmouth College, by Rufus Choate, 1859, 8vo, (noticed in Lon. Athen., 1854, 147;) Inauguration of the Statue [by Hiram Powers] of Webster: Address by N. P. Banks, and Eulogy by E. Everett, 1859, 8vo; Biographical Study on the Life and Works of Webster, by Prof. Katchenovsky, of the University of Kharkoff, Russia, 1859; Character of Webster pub. with Arctic Expeditions and their Results, (College Essays at Cambridge University, England,) by William Everett, Camb., 1863, 8vo; National Portrait-Gallery, vol. i.; Griswold's Prose Writers of America, 21, 23, 175; Duyc-ster, Nov. 11, 1845: Private Corresp. of Daniel Webster, ii, 202. kinck's Cyc. of Amer. Lit., ii. 30, and Index; Homes of Amer. Authors, (by G. W. Greene;) Magoon's Living Authors of America, 1849; Men of the Time, 1852, 526; Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 576; Encyc. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 795; Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, Index; Moore's American Eloquence, ii. 357; Edward Everett's Orations and Speeches, Index; Wheaton's Hist. Law of Nations; R. C. Winthrop's Addresses and Speeches, 1852, 215, 216, 217, 229, 369-74, 421-26, 462, 497, 722; Harsha's Eminent Orators and Statesmen, 429; Lieber's Civil Liberty, ed. 1859, 136, 157, 158, 159, 251, 270; H. B. Wallace's Criticisms, 8-15; I have quoted Mr. Webster's opinion of one of the most formidable of his opponents,-John C. Calhoun: it is proper to cite Mr. Calhoun's estimate of Mr. Webster: "When your name was mentioned, he remarked that Mr. Webster has as high a standard of truth as any statesman whom I have met in debate. Convince him, and he cannot reply; he is silenced; he cannot look truth in the face and oppose it by argument. I think that it can be readily perceived by his manner when he feels the unanswerable force of a reply.' He often spoke of you in my presence, and always kindly and most respectfully."-Mr. A. W. Venable to Daniel Webster, Washington, June 7, 1850: Private Corresp. of D. Webster, i. 371. My readers will thank me for the following estimates, by eminent authorities, of Webster's merits as an orator: "I admire your style of address. It is stringent and terse, simple and strong. It is the severe simplicity and strength of Demosthenes, and not the art and elegance and Copia verborum of Cicero. The latter was the characteristic of the speeches and writings of our friend Story. But yours is the better model for a great political speaker."-Chancellor Kent to Daniel Web "The best speeches of Webster are among the very best that I am acquainted with in the whole range of oratory, ancient or modern. They have always appeared to me to belong to that simple and manly class which may be properly headed by the name of Demosthenes. Webster's speeches sometimes bring before my mind the image of the Cyclopean walls,-stone upon aloud, too, the last speech which you sent me, I was desirous of stone, compact, firm, and grand. After I had perused, and testing my own appreciation, and took down Demosthenes, reading him aloud too. It did not lessen my appreciation of Webster's speech. You know that I insist upon the necessity of entire countries for high, modern citizenship; and all my in tercourse with Webster made me feel that the same idea or feeling lived in him, although he never expressed it. Webster had a big heart,-and for that very reason was a poor party. leader in our modern sense. Every thing in Webster was capacious, large;-he was a statesman of Chatham's type, I think. I believe he thought he was strong in political economy, but I think this was his weak point. I do not recollect that he was ever profound in that branch of statesmanship; and he may have become occasionally in this branch a special pleader, which he never was on other questions, and which many others have almost always been in their public career."-FRANCIS LIEBER: Letter to S. Austin Allibone, Jan. 16, 1860. "To test Webster's oratory, which has ever been very attractive to me, I read a portion of my favourite speeches of Demosthenes, and then read-always aloud-parts of Webster; then returned to the Athenian; and Webster stood the test. I have done it several times."—Ibid., Feb. 27, 1870. Many other opinions before me want of space forbids me to quote: of some the eulogy is so indiscriminate and extravagant-placing Mr. Webster on a par, at least, with the greatest names of all times and countries -that I feel no temptation to quote. What, for instance, can be more inconsiderate than to rank the eight volumes of the Works and Correspondence of Daniel Webster with the eight volumes-replete with eloquence, philosophy, history, poetry, and wit-of the Works and Correspondence of Edmund Burke? I have perused the whole of these with much satisfaction,-it would be hypocrisy to add, with equal profit. Such injudicious comparisons as those which I have rebuked provoke a ridicule which nothing but Mr. Webster's substantial merits -and this is not the least proof of his real greatnessare able to repress. To the above I am now (May, 1870) able to add a supplementary note. By Mr. Webster's will, Edward Everett, George Ticknor, C. C. Felton, and George Ticknor Curtis were appointed his literary executors, and Fletcher Webster was requested to transfer to them such papers relating to his father's personal and public history as in his judgment should be placed at their disposal. "This direction," Mr. Curtis writes to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., Oct. 1869, "was fully carried out by Mr. Fletcher Webster, and by him, assisted by Mr. Abbott, a great mass of papers was transferred to the literary executors, by whom they were carefully arranged and preserved. Very important materials were also obtained by them from other sources, and placed with the general collection of papers relating to Mr. Webster. When finally completed, this collection was found to be exceedingly rich, and to cover the whole of Mr. Webster's life, from his boyhood. The deaths of Mr. Everett, President Felton of Harvard, and Col. Fletcher Webster, who was killed in battle at the head of his regiment in 1862, occurred before any steps had been taken for writing and publishing a Life of the great statesman. This duty, and the determination of the proper period for publication, thus devolved solely on Mr. Ticknor and myself. Unwilling, at his advanced age, to undertake any new literary labour of magnitude, my kinsman, while ready to give me his advice, requested me to write the Life, and placed in my hands the whole of the materials belonging to the literary executors, together with his own correspondence with Mr. Webster, extending over a period of nearly forty years. This occurred in the winter of 1866. We were both then of opinion that the time had arrived for the final fulfilment of the purpose implied in the creation of the literary executorship. I therefore immediately began the writing of the work which I now place in your hands for publication." Accordingly, Mr. Curtis's Life of Daniel Webster was published, N. York, 2 vols. 8vo: i., Dec. 1869; ii., April, 1870.-too recently for criticism to have discharged its judicial office. Webster, David. 1. Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Edin., 1817, 8vo; 1820, 8vo. 2. The Scotch Haggis, 1822, 12mo, 48.; 1. p., 68. 3. Original Scottish Rhymes, Paisley, 1824, 18mo. Webster, E., Editor of The Phonographic Teacher, N. York, 1852, '54, &c., 12mo. Webster, Edw. Parliamentary Costs, &c., 3d ed., Lon., 1867, p. 8vo. Webster, Edward, of Ealing, Middlesex, England. An Introductory Essay to the Science of Comparative Theology; with a Tabular Synopsis of Scientific Religion, Lon., 1870, 8vo. Webster, Fletcher, son of Daniel Webster, and editor of his Private Correspondence, was b. in Portsmouth, N.H., July 23, 1813; graduated at Harvard College, 1833: studied with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar; Private Secretary to his father for a portion of the time when the latter was Secretary of State under Tyler, (see Webster's Works, vol. iv., Dedication:) Secretary of Legation to China under Caleb Cushing, 1843; member for Boston of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1847; Surveyor of the Port of Boston, 1850 -61; killed at the second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862. Oration delivered before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1846, Bost., 1846, 8vo, pp. 33. Webster, G. W., of Wheeling, Virginia. 1. Ser 165 mon, Death of D. Webster, 2d ed., Wheeling, 1853, 8vo. 2. Sermon, Cong. Society, 1853, 8vo. Webster, George, Chancellor of Cork, and Domestie Chaplain to the bishop. 1. Notes of Lectures on the New Testament, Lon., 1860, 8vo. 2. Spiritual Organization; a Lecture, Dubl., 1863, cr. 8vo. Webster, George H., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Ohio. The Prince of this World: a Treatise on the Casting Out of Satan, with a New Rendering of his Sin and Fall, founded on the Words of Jesus, Cin., 1867, 8vo. Webster, Miss Grace. 1. Ingliston; a Tale, Lon., 1840, p. 8vo. 2. Disputed Inheritance, 1845, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Raymond Revilloyd, 1850, 2 vols. p. Svo. 4. Memoir of Dr. Charles Webster; with an Account of Dr. Alexander Webster, Edin., 1853, 12mo. See Lon. Athen., 1853, 1223; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1853, 1073. Webster, J. Construction of the Old Wall at VeruJam: Archæol., ii. 184. Webster, J. Admission of Pupils to Bethlem Hospital, Lon., 1842, 8vo. Webster, Rev. J. Malvern and its Environs, Lon., 1858, 12mo. Webster, J. G., M.D. Epidemic Cholera: its Phenomena, Causes, and Mode of Communication, &c., N. York, 1866, 12mo. Webster, J. P. The Signet Ring: a New Collection of Music and Hymns, Compiled for Sabbath-Schools, etc., Chicago, 1868, 16mo. Webster, J. W. Waterloo, and other Poems, Lon., 8vo. Webster, James, of Edinburgh. 1. Sacramental Sermons and Discourses at the Lord's Table, Edin., 1705, 4to. 2. Select Sermons, 1723, 8vo; 1761, 12mo. Webster, James, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Discourses on several Subjects preached at the Cathedral Church of Winchester, Winches., 1787, 8vo. Webster, James, of the county of Perth. General View of the Agriculture of Galloway, in the County of Wigton and Stewartry, Lon., 1794, 4to, pp. 42. "Contains less valuable matter than might be expected."Donaldson's Agr. Biog., 79. Webster, James, Jr. Inaugural Essay on Medical Jurisprudence, Phila., 1824, 8vo. Webster, James, of the Inner Temple. Travels through the Crimea, Turkey, and Egypt during the Years 1825-28, Lon., 1830, 2 vols. 8vo. "Replete with new and interesting information."—Lon. Spec, "To this... able work is prefixed a Memoir of Mr. Webster, a young Scotchman, [by the editor.]"-Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1830, 287. See, also, Fraser's Mag., i. 695. Webster, James, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Geneva (N. York) Medical College. 1. Lecture Introductory, Geneva, (1840,) 8vo. 2. Address to the Graduates, Roches., 1841, 8vo. 3. Lecture Intro.. ductory, Geneva, 1842, 8vo. 4. Card in Reply to Dr. John Eberle, Svo. 5. To the Medical Profession of the City of New York, N. York, 1846, 8vo. Webster, James Wedderburn. Genealogical Account of the Wedderburn Family: Printed at the Author's Private Press at Nantes, 1819, Svo. Webster, John, one of the greatest of English dramatists, a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company, is thus introduced to us by Gerard Langbaine: "An Author that liv'd in the Reign of King James the First; and was in those Days accounted an Excellent Poet. He joyn'd with Decker, Marston, and Rowley, in several Plays; and was likewise author of others, which have even in our Age gain'd Applause: As for Instance, Appius and Virginia, Dutchess of Malfy, and Vittoria Carrombona; but I shall speak of these in their Order."-Account of the English Dramatick 1exts, Caf., 1691, 8vo, 508. In Henslowe's Diary he is noticed as writing plays in conjunction with Decker, Drayton, Middleton, Munday, Chettle, Heywood, and Wentworth Smith. To these meagre accounts few particulars can be added: see Dyce's and Hazlitt's Prefaces, ut infra. 1. With DECKER, THOMAS, The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat, Lon., 1607; 1612, 4to. 2. With DECKER, THOMAS, Northward Hoe, sundry Times acted by the Children of Paules, 1607, 4to. Inglis's Old Plays, 33, £2 18. See No. 3. 3. With DECKER, THOMAS, Westward Hoe, divers Times acted by the Children of Pauls, 1607, 4to. Rhodes, 921, £1 148. "Westward Hoe' and 'Northward Hoe' are full of life and bustle, and exhibit as curious a picture of the manners and customs of the times as we shall anywhere find. Though by no means pure, they are comparatively little stained by that 2625 grossness from which none of our old comedies are entirely free." -DYCE: ubi infra. 4. The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Vrsini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Colombano, the famous Venetian Curtizan, 1612, 4to: Fowle, Dec. 1864, 771, $11.25; 2d ed., 1631, 4to; 1634, 4to; 1665, 4to; 1672, 4to: Fowle, 773, $11.25; 1685, 4to. Repub. in Dodsley's Collec. of Old Plays. See No. 9. "His White Devil' and Dutchess of Malfy,' upon the whole, perhaps, come the nearest to Shakspeare of any thing we have upon record: the only drawback to them, the only shade of imputation that can be thrown upon them, by which they lose some colour,' is, that they are too like Shakspeare, and often direct imitations of him, both in general conception and individual expression."-HAZLITT: Lects, on the Dram. Lit. of the Age of Elizabeth, Lect. III. "The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona, is not much inferior in language and spirit to the Duchess of Malfy; but the plot is more confused, less interesting, and worse conducted. Mr. Dyce, the late editor of Webster, praises the dramatic vigour of the part of Vittoria, but justly differs from Lamb, who speaks of the innocence-resembling boldness she displays in the trial scene.' It is rather a delineation of desperate guilt losing in a counterfeited audacity all that could seduce or conciliate the tribunal. Webster's other plays are less striking."-HALLAM: Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, iii. 123. See, also, Drake's Shaksp. and his Times, i. 233, 237, 238, 395; Blackw. Mag., iii. 556. 5. A Monvmental Colomne erected to the liuing Memory of Henry, Late Prince of Wales. 1613, 4to, pp. 18. 6. The Devils Law Case; or, When Women goe to Law the Devil is full of Businesse; a new Tragecomedy, 1623, 4to. Inglis's Old Plays, 116, £1 58. 7. The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy: The perfect and exact Copy, with diuerse things printed that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment, 1623, 4to: Fowle, 772, $11.25; 1640, 4to; 1678, 4to; with Alterations, 1708, 4to; Reconstructed for Stage Representation by R. H. Horne, 1850. Mr. Horne's labours are reviewed in Lon. Athen., 1850, 1272, and the representation of the piece, as altered, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Nov. 1850, is noticed on page 1225; see, also, 1857, 1511. Mr. Phelps sustained the part of Duke Ferdinand; young Mr. Waller, an American, played Antonio; the Duchess was represented by Miss Glyn. Some years later the play was acted in Philadelphia, and elsewhere, with Emma Waller as the Duchess; and in Jan. 1864, Miss Marriott played the same part at Sadler's Wells: see Lon. Reader, 1864, i. 146, "The Dutchess of Malfy is not, in my judgment, quite so spirited or effectual a performance as The White Devil. But it is distinguished by the same kind of beauties, clad in the same terrors. I do not know but the occasional strokes of passion are even profounder and more Shakspearian; but the story is more laboured, and the horror is accumulated to an overpowering and insupportable height."-HAZLITT: ubi supra. "In his pictures of wretchedness and despair he has introduced touches of expression which curdle the very blood with terror and make the hair stand erect. Of this, the death of the Dutchesse of Malfy, with all its preparatory horrors, is a most distinguishing proof. The fifth act of his Vittoria Corombona shows, also, with what occasional skill he could imbibe the imagination of Shakspeare, particularly where its features seem to breathe a more than earthly wildness."-DR. DRAKE: Shaksp. and his Times, ii. 565. See, also, i. 350, "This is the most celebrated of Webster's dramas.... The scenes are wrought up with skill, and produce a strong impression. . . . In the character of the Duchess of Malfy herself there wants neither originality nor skill of management, and I do not know that any dramatist after Shakspeare would have succeeded better in the difficult scene where she discloses her love to an inferior. There is perhaps a little failure in dignity and delicacy, especially towards the close; but the Duchess of Malfy is not drawn as an Isabella or a Portia; she is a love-sick widow, virtuous and true-hearted, but more intended for our sympathy than our reverence."-HALLAM : ubi supra. See, also, Blackw. Mag., ii. 656. 8. The Monument of Honour, at the Confirmation of the right worthy Brother John Gore, &c., 1624, 4to. Heber, Part 4, £6 2s. 6d. Not repub. by Dyce. 9. Appius and Virginia; a Tragedy, 1654, 4to. Heber, Part 2, 6426, £2 28. Under the title of The Roman Virgin, by Betterton, 1679, 4to. The original was repub. in vol. v. of Old Plays, [24,] being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Edited by C. W. Dilke, 1814-16, 6 vols. 8vo; 1. p., r. 8vo. "In Appius and Virginia he has done perhaps better than any one who has attempted a subject not, on the whole, very promising for tragedy; several of the scenes are dramatic and effective; the language, as is usually the case with Webster, is written so as to display an actor's talents; and he has followed the received history sufficiently to abstain from any excess of laughter at the close."-HALLAM: ubi supra. 10. With RowLEY, WILLIAM, The Thracian Wonder: a Comical History, 1661, 4to. Repub. in vol. v. of Old Plays: see No. 9. The compiler of Bibl. Heber. (see Part 4, 2871) thinks this is "assigned, no doubt wrongly, to John Webster, Author of The White Devil,'" &c. 11. With ROWLEY, WILLIAM, A Cure for a Cuckold: a Comedy, (with a preface by Kirkman,) 1661, 4to: Rhodes, 2584, £2. See, also, MARSTON, JOHN, No. 8; WEBSTER, JOHN, next below. "Webster, I think, is one of the best of our ancient dramatists."-SIR WALTER SCOTT: Letter to Rev. A. Dyce, March 31, 1831: Lockhart's Scott, ch. 1xxix. "Webster possessed very considerable powers, and ought to be ranked, I think, the next below Ford. With less of poetic grace than Shirley, he had incomparably more vigour; with less of nature and simplicity than Heywood, he had a more elevated genius and a bolder pencil. But the deep sorrows and terrors of tragedy were peculiarly his provinces. ... Webster is not without comic wit, as well as power of imagination; his plays have lately met with an editor [Mr. Dyce] of taste enough to admire his beauties, and not very over-partial in estimating them."-HALLAM: ubi supra, 122, 123. "His imagination had a fond familiarity with objects of awe and fear. The silence of the sepulchre, the sculptures of marble monuments, the knolling of church-bells, the cerements of the corpse, the yew that roots itself in dead men's graves, are the illustrations that most readily present themselves to his imagination."-REV. A. DYCE: ubi infra. See, also, Lamb's Works, vols. ii. and iv.; Henry Neele's Lects. on Eng. Poetry, Lect. IV.; Retrospec. Rev., vii. (1823) 87-120. Langbaine says that Webster wrote the Pageant for 1624: see Pageants, vol. iii. 118. The Dramatic Works of John Webster, now first Collected, with some Account of the Author, and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, Pickering, 1830, 4 vols. cr. 8vo, £2 28.: Holland, July, 1860, £4 10%.; Sotheby, April 27, 1863, £3; Fowle, Dec. 1864, 774, $48. Also, 12 copies 1. p. "This edition of the celebrated dramatist Webster is worthy of Mr. Pickering's press."-Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1830, 255. (An Appendix to this ed. was printed in 1838.) New ed., revised, Moxon, 1857, r. 8vo, 10%. 6d.; again, Routledge, 1861, r. 8vo, 10s. 6d. The Dramatic Works of John Webster, Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by William Hazlitt, of the Middle Temple, J. R. Smith's Lib. of Old Authors, 1857-58, 4 vols. fp. 8vo, £1; 1. p., p. 8vo, £1 108.: Fowle, 775, $16. "This compact and careful edition of Webster's dramatic works."-Lon. Athen., 1857, ii. 1512. sions to the inexhaustible wit, the all-penetrating humour, of "Webster was formed upon Shakspere. He had no preten his master; but he had the power of approaching the terrible energy of his passion, and the profoundness of his pathos, in characters which he took out of the great muster-roll of hu manity and placed in fearful situations and sometimes with revolting imaginings almost beyond humanity. It is clear what dramatic writers were the objects of Webster's love. He did not aspire to the full and heightened style of Master Chapman, nor would his genins be shackled by the examples of 'the laboured and understanding works of Master Jonson.' He belonged to the school of the romantic dramatists."-CHARLES KNIGHT: Pict. Shakspere, 2d ed., 1867, viii. 516, (William Shakspere: a Biography.) Mr. W. F. Fowle and Mr. F. F. Heard, of Boston, are, or were, engaged upon an edition of The Dramatic Works of John Marston, to which are prefixed his Poems; with Some Account of the Author and his Works, Boston, John Wilson & Sons, 5 vols. er. 8vo, 200 copies. $20; 1. p., 8vo, 40 copies, $60. Printed on the finest English wove paper. The collector should secure Catalogue of Very Choice Collection of Books forming the Library of William F. Fowle, Esquire, of Boston, Mass., which will be sold by Auction by Leonard and Company, at their Library Sales-room, 49 Tremont Street, Boston, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 20th, 21st, and 22d of December, at Ten O'clock Precisely: Cambridge; Printed at the Riverside Press, 1864, 8vo, pp. 147, Noɛ. 818. The 1607 vols, of this collection-the fruits of extraordinary knowledge, taste, and liberality-produced $17,349.71, or about $10.80 per vol.: the highest average ever reached at an auction-sale in the United States. John Allan's books, sold in New York, May, 1864, averaged about $5 per vol. Webster, John, late Chaplain in the Army." 1. The Saint's Guide, Lon., 1653, 4to. 2. Academiarum Examen; or, Examination of Academies, 1654, 4to. Answered by Histrio-Mastix: A Whip for Webster, &c., 1654, 8vo. Repub, with Hall's Vindicia Literarum, &c., 1655, 8vo. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.. iii. 679. See, also, WARD. SETH, D.D., No. 4. 3. The Judgment Set, and the Bookes Opened. 1654, 4to. This is by John Webster, "A Servant of Christ and his Church :" we suppose him to be the same as the author of Nos. 1, 2, and 4, who was formerly thought to be Webster the dramatist but see Dyce's Webster. 5. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, 1677, fol. Written in opposi tion to the treatises of Casaubon, J. Glanvil, and H. | the State of New York, 1824, 12mo. 2. Annual Address More the Platonist. "This work is written with much piety, learning, acuteness, and strength of argument, and particularly examines all those passages of Scripture which have been thought [Webster thinks erroneously] to countenance the vulgar idea of the power of witches and evil spirits."-Brydges's Cens. Lit., vol. x. 307. "Look at Webster's admirable Treatise on Witchcraft."-Coleridge's Table-Talk. Webster, John, M.D., Practitioner in Physick and Surgery. Meta lographia; or, An History of Metals, Lon., 1671, 4to. Webster, John. 1. Elements of Natural Philosophy, Lon., 1804, 8vo: with Notes and Corrections by Robert Patterson, Phila., 1808, 8vo. Noticed in Lon. Mon. Rev., 1805, i. 321. 2. Elements of Mechanical and Chemical Philosophy, Taunton, 1804, 8vo. 3. Elements of Chemistry, 1811, 8vo. He contributed a paper or Electricity to Phil. Mag., xliii. (1814) 17. Webster, John, M.D. Essay on the Epidemic Cholera, Lon., 1832, 12mo. Webster, John White, M.D., graduated at Harvard College, 1811; was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in that institution, 1824; Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, 1826; and Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy from 1827 until the year of his death, 1850. See Quiney's Hist. of Harvard Univ., ii. 383, 401. 1. Description of the Island of St. Michael, comprising an Account of its Geological Structure; with some Remarks on the other Azores or Western Islands; Originally communicated to the Linnean Society of New England, Bost., 1821, 8vo, pp. 243. "If all who go abroad for the purposes of information would bring home with them a volume as valuable as this of Dr. Webster, it would be some compensation, and the only one which they can make, for the wrong they do their country by their absence "—J. G. Cogswell, LL.D.: N. Amer. Rer., xiv. 50. An interesting description."-Stevenson's Cat. of Voy. and Trav., No. 843. 2. A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Professor Brande's, 1826, 8vo, pp. 603; 2d ed., 1828, 8vo; 3d ed., 1839, Svo. The first ed. was reviewed in N. Amer. Rev., xxiii. 349, and (by B. F. Bache, M.D.) in N. Amer. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. iii., 1827. He edited Playfair's Liebig's Organic Chemistry, Camb.. 1841, 12mo, (reviewed by H. Colman in N. Amer. Rev., liii. 147;) 2d ed., 1841, 12mo, (reviewed by H. Colman in N. Amer. Rev., liv. 476;) and Gregory's Liehig's Animal Chemistry, (reviewed by E. Hale in N. Amer. Rev., Iv. 462;) was co-editor, with J. Ware and D. Treadwell, of the Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts, 1823-26, 4 vols. 8vo; and contributed to N. Amer. Rev., (one paper, xi. 225, Geology of the Northern States,) &c. Dr. Webster was hanged in the yard of the Leverett-Street Jail, Boston, August 30, 1850, for the murder, in 1849, of George Parkman, M.D., (q. v.) See Report of his Trial, by Dr. John W. Stone, Bost., 1850, Svo, pp. 314, and 2d ed., 1850, 8vo: Report for the New York Globe, with plates, N. York, 1850, 8vo; Report by George Bemis, Esq., one of the Counsel in the Case, Bost., 1850, r. 8vo, pp. 640: reviewed by Joel Parker in N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1851, 178, (pub. separately, as The Law of Homicide, 1851, 8vo, pp. 28,) and in Brownson's Quar. Rev., 2d Ser., v. 125. See, also, N. Brit. Rev., 13, (same in Eclec. Mag., xxi. 170;) Professor Webster's Defence, 1850, 8vo; Review of the Webster Case, by a Member of the New York Bar, N. York, 1850, 8vo, pp. 30; and Discourses on the subject by Rev. Lyman Whiting, Lynn, 1850, 12mo, and Rev. E. N. Kirk, Bost., 1850, 8vo. Webster, Jos. System of Stenography, Lon., 12mo. Webster, Joshua, M.D., is asserted by a correspondent of Lon. Gent. Mag.. 1799, 1014, to have written, at St. Alban's, in 1764, The Beggar's Petition; but another correspondent of the same periodical, 1790, 972, ascribes it to Thomas Moss, (p. 1378, supra,) in the collection pub. by whom it appeared. See The Petition, with an etching by a boy, in Lon. Gent. Mag., 1791, (see, also, 810,) 852. Webster, Josiah, b. in Chester, N. Hampshire, 1772: graduated at Dartmouth College, 1798: was minister at Chebacco, in Ipswich, 1799 to 1806. and at Hampton, June 8, 1808, until his death, in 1837. He published a number of single serinons. See Memoir of him in Amer. Quar. Reg., xii. 122, (by II. Wood.) before the Albany Institute, Albany, 1837, 8vo. Webster, Noah, LL.D., a descendant, by his father, of John Webster, Governor of Connecticut in 1656, and by his mother, of William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth in 1621, was b. in Hartford, Connecticut, Oct. 16, 1758; entered Yale College in 1774, and, after serving in the militia raised to oppose General Burgoyne, graduated there in 1778; subsequently pursued the study of the law in the intervals of school-teaching, and in 1781 was admitted to the bar; in 1783 published in The Connecticut Courant a series of papers, signed Honorius, in vindication of the Congressional soldiers' pay-bill; and in the same year issued his First Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language, (Webster's SpellingBook,) of which the sale was so large that, "during the twenty years in which he was employed in compiling his American Dictionary, the entire support of his family was derived from the profits at a premium for copyright of less than a cent a copy;" in 1785 travelled in the Southern States, and in May of that year visited Mount Vernon, and presented General Washington with his Sketches of American Policy, "the first distinct proposal made through the medium of the press," Dr. Goodrich thinks, (Memoir of Noah Webster,) "for a new Constitution of the United States;" in 1787 resided in Philadel phia as superintendent of an Episcopal Academy: Dec. 1787, to Nov. 1788, published in the city of New York the American Magazine, (8vo, pp. 882,) which failed of success, as did also another projected enterprise of his of the same kind; practised law at Hartford (where, in 1789, he married a daughter of William Greenleaf) from 1789 to 1793; incited by zeal for the principles of Washington's administration, in Nov. 1793, removed to the city of New York, and established a daily paper, entitled The Minerva, and afterwards a semi-weekly paper, (made up from the standing matter of The Minerva,) entitled The Herald, -names subsequently changed to those of The Commercial Advertiser and The New York Spectator; in 1795 published ten papers signed Curtius, (subsequently, with two essays by Chancellor Kent on the same subject, collected in a pamphlet by a bookseller of Philadelphia,) in explanation and defence of Jay's Treaty with Great Britain; from 1798 to 1812 lived at New Haven, chiefly occupied with philological pursuits, and from 1807 diligently employed in the preparation of his American Dictionary of the English Language, (first edition, 1828, 2 vols. 4to,) the improvement of which was for the rest of his days-a period of thirty six years-the great business of his life; from 1812 to 1822 resided at Amnerst, where he took an active part in the establishment of the new college, which has made the name of that town so deservedly dear in many parts of the land; in 1822 removed to New Haven, and, with the exception of a visit to Europe, June, 1824, to June, 1825, there remained until his death, in the fear of God and faith of Christ, May 28, 1843, in his 85th year. Our list of his publications may very appropriately be introduced by some observations from the pen of his son-in-law and biographer, Dr. Chauncey A. Goodrich: "There was hardly any department of literature which he had not explored with lively interest at some period of his life. He wrote on a greater variety of topics than perhaps any other author of the United States;-on the foundations of government, the laws of nations, the rights of neutrals, the science of banking, the history of his country, the progress of diseases, and the variations of climate; on agriculture, commerce, education, morals, religion, and the great means of national advancement, in addition to the principal theme of his life, philology and grammar. . . . In conclusion, it may be said that the name of Noah Webster, from the wide circulation of some of his works, is known familiarly to a greater number of the inhabitants of the United States than the name, probably, of any other individual except the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY. Whatever influence he thus acquired was used at all times to promote the best interests of his fellow-men. His books, though read by millions, have made no man worse. To multitudes they have been of lasting benefit, not only by the course of early training they have furnished, but by those precepts of wisdom and virtue with which almost every page is stored." — Memoir of Noah Webster: Prefired to C. G. Goodrich's and Noah Porter's Quarto Editions of Webster's Dictionary. 1. A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, &c., in three Parts, Hartford, 12mo: Part 1, Containing a New and Accurate Standard of Pronunciation, s. a., sed 1783; Part 2, Containing a Plain and Comprehensive Grammar, 1784; Part 3, An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking. 1785. Part 1 was afterWebster, M. H. 1. Catalogue of the Minerals inwards, and is still, known as Webster's Spelling-Book, Webster, Leland A. Present State of the Philosophy of Society, Phila., 1867. 33. Brief View of Errors and Obscurities in the Scriptures, and of Errors and Defects in Class-Books, 8vo. 34. The New Testament, with Amendments of the Language, 1839, 12mo. 35. Improved Grammar of the English Language, 1843, 12mo. 36. Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects, N. York, 1843, 8vo, pp. 373. Composed chiefly of some of his earlier pamphlets, (as Nos. S and 15;) the papers signed Curtius; papers read before literary and philosophical societies (he contributed to Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci., Connec. Acad. of Arts and Sci., Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., &c.) and printed in their Transactions. See Gen. Repos., iv. 313, (Webster on Temperature of Winter.) of which in its various forms the sale to 1847 was about | Observations on Commerce, 1839, 12mo. With this read24,000,000, (Goodrich's Memoir of Webster,) and to Jan. 1, 1865, was over 40,000,000. For some years previous to 1861 the annual sale was about 1,250,000 to 1,500,000, of which the Southern States took about 600,000. The annual sale in 1865 was about 500,000. See Dr. J. W. Francis's Old New York, ed. 1858, 340, 341, 351; Trübner's Bibl. Guide to Amer. Lit., ed. 1859, lxiii., lxxxvi. It should be followed by Webster's Speller and Definer; or, A Sequel to Webster's Elementary Spelling Book, by William G. Webster, Son of the Late Noah Webster, LL.D. The sale of this book has been very large. In London are issued the Noah Webster British and American Illustrated Spelling and Reading Book. Dean, Dec. 1858, el., 18., and the Illustrated Webster Reader, Ward & Lock, 1859, demy 8vo, pp. 160, cl., 18. 6d.: see Lon. Athen., 1859, ii. 160. 2. Sketches of American Policy, Hartford, 1785, 8vo. 3. Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787, 8vo. 4. Dissertations on the English Language, Bost., 1789, 8vo. See Francis's Old New York, 342. 5. Collection of Essays and Fugitive Writings on Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects, 1790, 8vo. 6. The Prompter; or, Common Sayings and Subjects, 1792, 12mo: Coventry, 1808, 12mo; N. Haven, 1839, 24mo. 7. Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry, Hartford, 1793, 12mo. 8. The Revolution in France considered in Respect to its Progress and Effects, N. York, 1794, 8vo. 9. Political Progress of Britain; or, An Impartial History of Abuses in the Government of the British Empire, Phila., 1795, 8vo. 10. Collection of Papers on the Subject of Bilious Fevers prevalent in the United States for a Few Years Past, N. York, 1796, Svo. 11. Letter on the Errors of English Grammar, 1798, 8vo. 12. Oration, July 4, N. Haven, 1798, Svo. 13. Brief History of Epidemics and Pestilential Diseases, Hartford, 1799, 2 vols. 8vo; Lon., 1800, 2 vols. 8vo. Noticed in Lon. Mon. Rev., 1802, i. 404. 14. Letters to Dr. Joseph Priestley, in Answer to his Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland, N. Haven, 1800, 8vo. See PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH, LL.D., No. 58. 15. Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War, 1802, 8vo. 16. Historical Notices of the Original State of Banking Institutions and Insurance Offices, 1802, 8vo. Repub. surreptitiously without the author's name in Philadelphia. A part of this reprint was incorporated into the Philadelphia edition of Rees's Cyclopædia. 17. Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, Hartford, 1806, 8vo. This does not represent the matured views of the author. 18. Letter respecting the Errors in Johnson's Dictionary and other Lexicons, N. Haven, 1807, 12mo. With this read Nos. 19, 20, 21, &c. 19. Discrepancies of English Orthography, 8vo. 20. State of English Philology, 8vo. 21. Dissertation on the Origin, History, and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and of Europe, 8vo. 22. Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language, 1807, 12mo. "It contains much valuable matter found in no other work, and is believed to be the most truly philosophical Grammar which we have of the English language."-DR. C. A. GOODRICH: Memoir of Noah Webster. We have reserved for separate consideration-37. WEBSTER'S AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, N. York, S. Converse, 1828, 2 vols. 4to, pp. 1936, words, 70,000 to 80,000, $20, 2500 copies. Edited by E. H. Barker, Lon., Black & Co., 1830-32, 4to, in 12 Parts, forming 2 vols., £5 108.; reduced in 1835, H. G. Bohn, £2 12s. 6d., 3000 copies. (The New York ed. was als abridged by J. E. Worcester, D.D., 1829, r. 8vo, and by the author, 1830, &c., sm. 4to: see, also, GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY, D.D.) Second edition, N. Haven, 1840, 2 vols. r. 8vo, pp. 2024, 3000 copies. Third edition, Revised and Enlarged by C. A. Goodrich, D.D., LL.D., Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam, (Oct. 1847,) 1848, r. 4to, pp. 1492: subsequently pp. 1592. This and the Second edition contain several thousands of new words. Fourth edition, (Pictorial,) by C. A. Goodrich, D.D., LL.D., Springfield, Mass., 1859, 4to, pp. 1758; words, 99,798. Fifth edition, (Illustrated.) thoroughly Revised, and greatly Enlarged and Improved, by C. A. Goodrich, D.D., LL.D., and Noah Porter, D.D., Riverside Press, Cambridge, Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company; Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry; Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam, London, Bell & Daldy, 1864, &c., r. 4to, pp. 1840; words, upwards of 114,000, pictorial illustrations, over 600. One of the most beautiful books of which modern typography can boast, and one of the most useful works which the language has produced. This is called Webster's Dictionary.-and properly enough, as it is built upon his foundation; but it is really the embodiment of the labours of many philologists: "More than thirty different scholars have been employed upon this revision at compensated labor, and most of them for very considerable periods of time, in addition to numerous years of earnest literary toil, we estimate, have been expended voluntary contributions and valuable suggestions. Full thirty upon this work since the revision of 1847, and the results are presented in this edition."-Publishers' Advert., Sept. 1864. Of these assistants we find the names (arranged by us in alphabetical order) which follow in Dr. Noah Porter's very satisfactory Preface, (July, 1864:) Rev. Fisk P. Brewer, Captain William P. Craighill, James D. Dana, John S. Dwight, Daniel C. Gilman, Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, James Hadley, Alexander L. Holley, Thomas Holt, Chester S. Lyman, Dr. C. A. F. Mahn, of Berlin, Prussia, (etymologies,) Lowell Mason, William C. Minor, M.D., Rev. John M. Morris, E. B. O'Callaghan, J. C. Perkins, Samuel Porter, Eugene Schuyler, R. Cresson Stiles, M.D., Thomas A. Thacher, Joseph Thomas, M.D., J. Hammond Trumbull, William G. Webster, William A. Wheeler, William D. Whitney, and Arthur W. Wright. Among the contributors of materials are Charles J. Lukens and U. S. Dana; among the suggesters of proper lexicographical principles, special obligations are acknowledged to George P. Marsh. The Prefaces and Appendix contain a vast amount of valuable matter: e.g., see WHEELER, WILLIAM A. 23. Rudiments of English Grammar, N. York, 1811, 18mo; N. Haven, 1831, 18mo. 24. History of Animals, 1812, 16mo. 25. Letter to the Hon. John Pickering on the Subject of his "Vocabulary," &c., Amherst. 1816, Svo: Bost., 1817, 8vo. Reviewed in N. Amer. Rev., v. 32, (by S. Willard.) See, also, PICKERING, JOHN, LL.D., No. 1. 26. Dictionary of the English Language, compiled for Common Schools, Hartford, 1817, sm. 4to. 27. Letters to a Young Gentleman on commencing his Education; to which is subjoined a Brief History of the United States, N. Haven, 1823, 8vo. After the publication of his Quarto Dictionary, in 1828, he issued revised editions of his History of the United States, (reviewed in Amer. Mon. Rev., 1832, ii. 381) and other earlier works. 28. Manual of Useful Studies, 1832, 8vo. 29. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments in the Common Version; with Amendments of the Language, 1833, 8vo. See No. 33. Reviewed in Chris. Spec., v. 656, (by L. Bacon;) Horne's Bibl. Bib., 86. 30. Webster Genealogy, (1836,) 8vo, pp. 8. See Whitmore's H.-B. of Amer. Geneal., xli. 31. Mis-"If any man were to say, 'I don't like his history: I takes and Corrections in the Common Version of the will acquire the information another way,' he would find Scriptures, in the Hebrew Lexicon of Gesenius, in it a very hard task," (Recollec. by S. Rogers, Lon., 1859, Richardson's Dictionary, &c., 1837, 8vo. 32. Observa- 39.) We-not an orthographical Websterian--apply tions on Language and the Errors of Class-Books; and this observation to the contemner of The American Dic To Webster's Dictionary we have referred on a preceding page, (3. DR. JOHNSON AS A LEXICOGRAPHER:) and we shall, before concluding this article, refer the student to authorities where he will find the alleged merits and demerits of the author's philological system and suggestions amply discussed. As regards the prac tice of authors and publishers, we estimate from data before us that in about 10,000,000 of volumes of schoolbooks-a very large majority of the whole numberpublished annually in the United States, Webster is recognized as the general standard of orthography. Charles James Fox remarked of Gibbon's great work, |