To Teachers and School Officers. Any school book published by the AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY will be sent to any address on receipt of the published list-price. Teachers and School Officers are cordially invited to correspond with the Company upon any matter pertaining to school books. Descriptive and classified Price-lists, Bulletins of New Books, and other circulars of information will be sent free to any address on application to the Publishers: AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO. THE NATIONAL STANDARD. The Leading Series of School Books published in this Country are based THE ELEMENTARY SPELLING BOOK, BEING AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE AMERICAN SPELLING BOOK. BY NOAH WEBSTER, LL. D. THE LATEST REVISED EDITION. NEW YORK .:. CINCINNATI .:. CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. Sold by all the principal Booksellers throughout the The AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY invites the attention of Teachers and School Officers to its large and varied list of school and college text-books, which have been prepared by leading educators and represent the most approved methods of instruction. Its list embraces standard books in every department of study and for every grade of schools. The large number and great variety of its publications offer to school boards, principals, and teachers an exceptional opportunity to make a judicious selection of text-books suitable for the different subjects of study and for all grades of instruction. Catalogues, price-lists, and other circulars of information will be sent free on application to the Publishers: AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, NEW YORK, CHICAGO. THE Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by EMILY W. ELLSWORTH, JULIA W, GOODRICH, ELIZA S. W. JONES, WILLIAM G. WEBSTER, and LOUISA WEBSTER, (surviving children of the late Noah Webster, LL.D.) In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Connecticut. STOR Entered, according to Act of CWOX in the year 1857, by G&C. MERRIAM, In the Clerk's Odige of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Copyright, 1880 and 1908, E. P. 28 of ; of by ods ; of PREFACE. .ons nal ble uc ion ES, 8. 3. IN N this revision of the Elementary Spelling Book, the chief object aimed at is to bring its notation into a correspondence with that of the recently issued Quarto Dictionary, in which a more extended system of orthoëpical marks has been adopted for the purpose of exhibiting the nicer discriminations of vowel sounds. A few of the Tables, however, and a few single columns of words, are left without diacritical signs as exercises in notation, a familiarity with which is important to all who consult the dictionary. A little attention to the Key to the Sounds of the marked Letters will aid both teacher and pupil in this interesting exercise. As it has been found inconvenient to insert the whole Key at the top of the page, as heretofore, frequent reference to the full explanation of the pointed letters on page 14 may be desirable. In Syllabication it has been thought best not to give the etymological division of the Quarto Dictionary, but to retain the old mode of Dr. Webster as best calculated to teach young scholars the true pronunciation of words. pro The plan of classification here executed is extended so as to comprehend every important variety of English words, and the classes are so arranged, with suitable directions for the nunciation, that any pupil, who shall be master of these Elementary Tables, will find little difficulty in learning to form and pronounce any words that properly belong to our vernacular language. The Tables intended for Exercises in Spelling and forming words, contain the original words, with the terminations only of their derivatives. These Tables will answer the important purposes of teaching the manner of forming the various derivatives, and the distinctions of the parts of speech, and thus |