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"A MODERN INNOVATION,

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That's what the "Americanized En-
cyclop@dia Britannica" is.
Throughout the English-speaking
world the Encyclopedia Britannica is
ranked the best, most accurate and
reliable work in print. Nobody with
any pretensions to literary Judgment
will deny this statement.
There are blemishes in diamonds
so there are in the Encyclopaedia Bril-
tannica.
The ninth and latest edition Of the
Encyclopedia Britannica, compiled
from five to twenty years ago, has be-
come out of date, and on account Of
the rapidity Of events, especially in
the United States, it has become as
work Of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made more progress in the last hum
dred years than in all the past ages.
Therefore the world demands not an
encyclopaedia that gives only the
history of the past, but an eneyclopse-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
of recent J Jars.
That is just what the american
lied" Encyclopaedia Britannica doeo.
What is this Americanized Encyclo-
pBdia Britannica? 1t is the Encyclo-
p@dia Britannica "Americanized,"
therefore undermined, and brought
down to date, namely, 1890.
The Encyclopedia Britannica Gays
nothing about such men as Bismarck,
Gladstone, Thomas A. Edison, Kos
suth, Blaine, Cleveland, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin
Harrison, nor even General Ulysses
s. Grant; in fact, nothing Of the men
who lived in the past few years, whose
history is that of the world. The
Americanized Encyclopaedia Britain
Mica contains the biographies of not
only the above great men, bat also OF
thousands Of others whose names will
be handed downto posterity and cher
ished by it as great for all time to
come.
TIE Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
piled by Enghshmen for the use Of
| Englishmen, sights American SUBJ
jects; as an illustration, the Encyclo-
p@dIa Britannica will tell you moro
about an Insignificant English borough
than g sovereign American State;
lengthy details about my Lord Tom
noddy, but sadly silent about Ethan
Allen, whose acts as leader Of the
Green Mountain Boys in capturing
the first fort (Ticonderoga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank of iber-
tvs heroes.
The Encyclopedia Britannica no
doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the tbeorist or the man of
leisure who can devote plenty Of tins
in looking up such abstruse subjects
as the infnitesimal calculus, the cata-
combs OF Rome, or the dreamy TINA
before the flood, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest slang, sit is not in it."
According to it Encyclopedia Bril-
tannica), Albany, the capital Of New
York State, is still en- overgrown town
Of only 10000 or so inhabitants, Den
yer is still hamlet Of 1900, while
, Chicago is put down for the modest
population OF triAe over 100000.
The spirit of the age is to say what
is to be said, in the least possible
words. We moderns do not want to
wade through fowery avenues Of
, beautiful phrases, by which the En-
3 cyclopadia Britannica has been spun
out to the wearisome length of twenty
r four cumbersome volumes, but to geb
!; at the wheat Of the subject at once,
! disposing of useless and meaningless
g words to the idle dreamer, or the four
winds Of heaven.
g The "Anericanized" Encyclopedia
Britannica condenses the information
:. given in the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopedia Britannica into ten
solid, substantial volumes in which
= every sentence bristles with in7alua-
!, bic information, and in which you car
g get at the meat of subject without
o wading through forest of words.
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for large number of sets We have
e obtained exclusive right of the worf
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