Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ANEW METHOD
OF
Amerieaniing Encyclopedias,
The Use of Scissors Plays an Impor-
tant Part--PIain Talk by the
Henry G. Allen COMFY.
OVER $500 IN PRIZES

Al AuAA 6iDl al VI OAS hcAA ANaS
sin Leather, to any person
proving by comparison with
the importedB Britannia that our
Reprint is not an exact repro
duction of the latest edition,
the 9th.
Second-We will give a 500
set of Encyclopedia Britain
MICA, 80 volumes, to any person
proving that there is any Re-
print of the Encyclopedias
Britannica, other than that
published by the Henry G.. Az
len Company.
Third--We will give a $45 set
of Encyclopedia Britannica, 80
volumes, to any person proving
that the work published by a
Chicago publishing house,
and called the Encyclopedias
Britannica, is a reprint of the
Britannica. ,
Fourth-Another S45 set of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80
volumes, to any person prov
ing that the work with the Sc
ductive title, "The American
lied" Encyclopedia Britannica
is the Britannica.
To judge from the elaborate
use of ink and paper in behalf
of the last-named work by
one of the Pittsburg papers,
some may think that their only
aim is to provesa beacon to an
unsuspecting public. Is it pos
sible that neither the paper nor
the publishers of the "New
Americanized" Encyclopedia
Britannica knew that the Brit
annica had already been Amer
icanized by eminent American
writers; and so ably done, too,
that the five Isl volumes of the
American Supplement to the
Britannica, treating matters of
vital Importance to Americans
bringing the work down to re-
cent date, giving biographies
of eminent living persons, called
forth commentator from the
press of Europs as well as that
of our own country
An exhaustive Encyclopedia
dialogue, in the paper referred
to on the 9th inst, gives a talk
between a prospective buyer of
this mutilated Chicago edition,
and a representative of the
publishers of the same, in
which the representative asserts
that Ulyssus S. Grant is not
mentioned in the Britannica;
that it says not a word about
Sherman, Hancock, Blaine nor
Harrison, though our supple
ment mentions Harrison and
states that he is the twenty-hrst
President of the United Statesl
He continues with Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward
Howe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Charles Stewart Parnell nor
Bismarck, nor Jefferson Davis;
and we presume if the deiuded
prospective buyer had not
called, "Hold," the obliging
representative would have still
been naming eminent persons
omitted from the Britannica.
We will give S1oo to any
Pittsburg benevolent institution
if there Is a single one of the
above named persons omitted
from our work.
In the dialogue referred to,
replying to the inquisitor's
query, if the Britannica says
anything about anybody the
smooth representative answers,
"Oh, yes; it contains some of
the most magnificent biog-
raphies that were ever written;
McCauley's life of Johnson, for
example" But even that mag
nihcent eulogy could not escape
the pruning process employed
to reduce the work to 10 vol
umes. This was done by omit
ting from the article in the
Britannica, paragraph after
paragraph, and giving the bal
ance of the article verbatim.
For the benefit of the public
we would ask this Chicago pub
fishing concern to inform the
public who are the writers or
contributors to this wonderful
"Americanized Britannica" that
is being foisted upon the atten-
ton of our interested citizens.
In all candor the Henry G.
Allen Co. will say to those con
templating buying the Encyclo-
padia Britannica, "Look before
you leap. Examine both before
you buy"
One of the Chicago editions
is fatally mutilated, and the
other, well, it is a monde
script.
There is but one reprint of.
the Encyclopedia Britannica,
and that one is published by
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