The Portland daily press., 1880-09-09
Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia.
Testimonials to it's Merits.

The EDITORS in CHIEF of this new and won-
derful work-the product of the best minds of
this country and Europe-are F. A. P. Bar
nard, President of Columbia College, and Ar
mold Guyot, the greatest living geographer in
the world.
They have been assisted by.37 DEPARTMENT.
AL EDITORS and hundreds of SPECIAL Con
TRIBUToRs, each one having been selected
with reference to his peculiar fitness for
special line of study and made responsible for
the articles by signing them.
"The most difficult achievem ent in works of
this kind is to determine wisely what subjects
to treat with tullness, what ones with brecity,
and what ones to dismiss with mere mention.
Brevity has not been attained by keeping out
of view any fruitful portion of the field of
knowledge, but rather by judicious looping
OF a luxurious overgrowth of thought and
opinion which more clearly reveals the solid
trunk and root of truth.
The EDITORS appear to have eliminated
wisely and Disseminated with good taste and
judgment, the treatment of subjects corres-
ponding, in respect to fullness or brevity with
their apparent relative Importance, and being
written in simple and clear, yet eomprehen-
sive style, exceptionally we'll adapted to read
ers OF fair average intelligence.
Everyone may rest assured of its adaptation
not only for professional and scholarly men,
but for ordinary and practical people, for use
in the family every day, when it is remem-
oered mat Horace Greeley, who was busy
and practical man, conceived the design worked
out and worked upon it himself until his
death.
If the wealthy and public spirited who may
have copy of some similar work will procure
this, they will find it valuable as supplement-
ing the others and more thoroughly American
than any which has yet appeared, and by so
doing will furnish an example which will en-
courage others to the higher education of their
families.
To those who have no cyclopadia this will
be found adequate to all their wants, and as
the work is largely sold on the instalment plan
OF monthly payments the small economy of
ten cents day for a little over year will pro-
cure set of this truly magnificent work.
Prof W. P. Hood, the accredited agent of
the publishers, is graduate of Dartmouth
College, and comes well introduced by Hon.
John D. Philbrick, formerly so long Supt.
OF Boston schools, Hon. VIM. Window,
United States Senator from Minnesota and
others. AS he proposes to spend a year or two
in thorough canvass of the city, all purchas-
ers will have abundant opportunity of fully in
forming themselves as to the accuracy, fulness
and freshness OF the work, and If the acork acere
not highly naeritosioas, it could not stand this
kind of an introduction.
At 1443 Exchange street, pleasant Office
has been fitted up and supplied with Johnson S
last edition in eight volumes, where any one
in search of a cyclopedia for consultation or
purchase, will be quite welcome and where by
comparison one will have abundant opportuni-
ty OF fully satisfying himself which is the
best, all things considered.
The advantages of Johnson's are (1) it treats
of thousands of more subjects than all of its
competitors combined and on,its no important
topic found IN them. (2) the ,criter's name is
SjQ7led to each article as ro,cher for its accr1-
racy (3) the long articles are inde1ed ON the
same page (H its price is only half as much
though containing more type matter and more
encyclopedia matter all profusely illustrated
with map-plans and engravings.
Testimonial Of the Rt. Hon. w. e. Glad
stone-Premier of England.
"The amount of valuable information is
truly wonderful