The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-04


That's what the @Americanized Ens
cyclopedis Britannica" Is.
Throughout the English-speakiDg
world the Encyclopedias Britannica is
ranked the best. most accurate and
reliable work in print. Nobody With
any prstensions to literary judgments
will deay this statement.
There are bIemishes in diamonds
30 there are in the Encyclopedias Bril-
tannica.
The ninth and latest edition OF the
Encyclopedias Britannica, compiled
from five to twenty years sgo, 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come out Of date, and on account OF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
encyclopedias that gives only the
history Of the past, but an encyclOp@-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
Of recent years.
That IS just what the american.
lied" Encyclopedias Britannica does.
What is this Amsricanizsd Encyclo-
pedia Britannica 1t is the Encyclo-
psedia Britannica "Anerioanized," "
therefore nsodernSzed, and brought
down to date, namely, 1890.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says
nothing about such men as Bismarck,
Gladstone, Thomas A. Edison, Kos
suth, Blaine, Cleveland, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jefferson Davis, BeniamiE
Harrison, nor even General Ulysses
8. Grant; in fact, nothing OF the men
who lived in the past lew years, whose
history is that Of the world. Tho
Americanized Encyclopedias Britain
MICA contains the biographies OF nos
only the above great men, but also o.
thousands Of others whose names will
be handed downto posterity and cher
ished by it; as great Cor all time to
come.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
piled by Englishrnen for the use Of
Englishmen, Sights American sub
iects; as an illustration, the Eneyclo-
padia Britannica will tell you more
about aninsignihcantE English borough
than q 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 (Ticondsroga) 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 theorist or the man Of
leisure who can devote plenty Of TINA
In looking up such sbstruse subjects
as the infnitesimal calculus, the cata-
combs of Rome, or the dreamy tins
before the food, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest alang, sit is not in it"
According to it Encyclopaedia Bril-
tannica), Albany. the capital of New
York State, is still an ovorgrown town
OF only 10000 or 80 inhabitants, Den
yer is still hamlet Of 1900, while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population OF q triHe over 100000.
The spirit Of the age is to say what
is to be said, in the least possible
words. We modarns do not want to
wade through fowery avenues Oi
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclopsdia Britannica has been spun
out to the weariaome length OF twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to gel
at the wheat OF the subject at once
disposing of useless and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, or the foul
winds Of heaven.
The "Americanized' Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the Information
given in the twenty-four volumes O
tho Encyclopedia Britannica into ter
solid, substantial volumes in which
every sentence DrisSles with invalua
bic information, and In which you cal
get at the meat OF subject without
n wadiDg through forest Of words.
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for largo number Of sets ne hav
y obtained exclusive right Of the worl
+ for this section, and are enabled t
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