Canton Weekly Register

Dictionaries in England. - The New York Tribune, of the 4th inst., has the following paragraph: 'At the Trade sales-room, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Augustus Flagg, of the firm of Little, Brown & Co., Boston, in conversation with Mr. Merriam the enterprising publisher of Webster's dictionary, remarked that when he was in London, a respectable looking Englishman came to him, with astonishment depicted in his face, and said, "Pardon me, sir, I understand you are an American." "I am, sir," was the reply. "I am surprised to hear you say so, because you speak the English language as well as we do." "We speak it infinitely better than you do," was the reply, "and I will bet you five pounds," continued Mr. Flagg, "that if you will cross the street with me, to the book store opposite, you will find the book merchant sells more copies of Webster's American dictionary than of any English dictionary in the market." "Indeed!" exclaimed Mr. Bull. "Yes, sir, we have published a dictionary in America which will teach you how to use the English language.'