For short entries there is often no bibliography. Most of the illustrations are in color, although the quality is generally mediocre. In spite of the emphasis on science it claims, the scientific entries seem somewhat weak, or at best uneven. Many other large topics receive quick treatment. Education gets 5 pages.
Literary figures do better than political figures.
A better arrangement would have put it simply under France. An index concludes the set, but with the entries so broken up, one must hop from volume to volume to put together a full picture.