The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-14
Cyclopadias! Cyclopedias!

Cyclopadias! Cyclopedias!
Every intelligent person needs one! They
are as necessary as a dictionary. The best in
the market at a reasonable price. Even peo-
pie OF moderate means can afford to buy it.
Not revision or patching up of an old, val
ueess European work, but work prepared
under tie supervision of the first scholars Of
America, by the most talented corps Of con.
tribuiors ever engaged upon such an under
taking Such is Johnson's CyclopTdia. New,
accurate, thorough, comprehensive. The Bri.
tannica consists or rather is to consist of 81
vols. and vols. of supplement, and will then
be incomplete, unhandy and useless to chill.
dren, and costs from Sl05 to Sl6S, not count
irg the supplement. The American consists
of 10 vols, coming down to 1878 only, and to
bring 1t down to this date requires II vols. of
supplement and index, costing at the lowest
price $50 for the work itself and $50 more for
supplements. 1t lacks accuracy and is not
comprehensive. You will not find Free Trade,
Protection, God, Darwinanism, Democracy,
Republicanism, and many other subjects in
it. 1t is carelessly edited and in many respects
the first edition was superior TO the second
Chambers is old verbose and inconyenicnt.
1t lacks orderly arrangement of topics in Its
long articles and is deficient in all that relates
to America and American affairs. The addi-
tons and reyisions have been made with little
skill and have reduced it to piece of patch
work. The Peoples is largely taken in scraps
from, Chambers, the cuts borrowed from the
publishers of Webster's Dictionary. Any one
owning the two works can compare them for
himself 1t claims to have been made by men
some OF whom deny connection with it. 1t
lacks authority, accuracy, mprehensiveness,
fullness, thoroughness. 1t is scrappy, weak
misleading, unreliable, and hence worse than
none Zell's is too condensed, the print too
fine for many readers, and the price too high
for the quantity of matter contained. John
sons is new, accurate, comprehensive, thor
ough, complete. 1t contains as much matter
as the American, brought down to 1898 in
all departments, is beautifully printed, neatly
and substantially bound, and costs only $40
to S42, according to style of binding. 1t is
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cheapest work of the kind in print.
JohnsoD's CyclopWdia can be obtained only
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Co. also publish the most complete and useful
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tanned Of any of their agents. It is the latest,
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the public. Most of the United States are
given, colored in townships, and the maps
are iniexed. 1t also contains much statistical
matter all from the latest sources. II is a fit
ting companion to the Cyclopcdia.
j. w. HUETT, Agent at Ottawa.
Johnsons Cyclopadia contains many more
biographical articles than either the American
or the Britannica. In the first vol. of the
American there are notices OF rs Americans
and 1913 foreigners; in the second I62 Amcri-
cans and $40 foreigners; in both, 23S Amcri-
cans and 1888 citizens of other countries.
The same section Of Johnson's gives 535
Americans, and as many foreigners as the
Americans. In the first five letters Of the nj.
phabct, excluding all articles Of less than three
lines in length in Johnson's, the American has
II OH subjects, Johnson 1898. Johnson's in
all contains over 10000 headings more than
the American. In every department it is
more perfect, more recent, more correct The
place of the accent in every word is marked
and thus guide given to the pronunciation,
while the more difficult words are pro-
nounced. 1t is superior to any other work Of
the kind from every point Of view. Es.
From G. II. Williams, graduate of Ottawa
Township High School, and now teaching:
NERMlLLIoNvILLE, ILL, Feb 18th, 1SS5.-
j. w. HucH, Otd,Cd, H.: | think Johnson's
Cyclop9dia the best published. without eX-
ccption. can always find just what | want
in it, much better than in the Britannica.
PEOPLES CYCLoP.RDIA
The late Horace Greeley planned Johnson's
CyclopWdia, but did not plan the Peoples,
having fortunately died before this latter
compilation was born. Mr. Grecley's latest
labors were given to Johnson's, and his plans
were not changed. The associate editors of
Johnson's are not figure heads How is it
with those Of the Peoples? One OF the most
prominent contributors CD on the title page
of the Peoples informs us that he "ncvcr
wrote or prepared anything whatever for it."
President w. F. Warren Boston University,
whose name was printed on the Peoples title
page Of carly editions, asked that his "name
be dropped in future editions land it was, :, as
his connection with the Peoples was too
slight TO warrant its notification We are ay
changing lin parD quantities of the Peoples
for Johnson's, and sell the same at SO a set.
Call and see us. A. J. JOHNSON S Co,
IL Great Jones St., New York.
j. w. HuETT,
Ottawa, H., with Fowler Bros.
Go to Lacey & Smiths for your dry good.