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That's what the "Amsricanizsd En-.
cyclopsedia Britannics" is.
Throughout the Englisb-speaking
world the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
ranked the best, .ost accarata ana
reliable work In print. Nobody with
any pretensions to literary judgments
viii deny this statement.
There are blemishes in diamonds.
so there are in the Encyelop@dia Bril-
tannica.
The Ainth and latest edition Of the
Encyclopedias Britannica, compiled
from five to twenty years ago, has be-
come ont Of date, and on account OF
ths rapidity of events, sspecisily in
The United States, it has become a.
work Of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made moro progress in the last hun
dred years than in all the past ages.
Therefore the world demands not 81
encyclopaedia that gives only the
history of the past, but an sncyclopss-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
of recent years.
That is just what the "Amsrican-
lied" Encyclop@dia Britannica does.
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p@dis Britannica "Americanized,7
therefore modeTnfssd, and brought
down to date, namely, 1896.
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nothing about such men as Bismarck,
Gladstone, Thomas A. Edison, Kos
suth, Blaine, Cleveland, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin.
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s. Grant; IN fact, nothing OF tho men
who lived in the past few years, whose
history is that Of the world. The
Americanized Encyclopedias BritaRs
Mica contains the biographies Of nos
only the above great men, but also Of
thousands Of others whose names viii
be handed down to pOsterity and cher
ished by i'd as great for all time to
come.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
piled by EngEsbnen for the use OF
Englishmsn, sights American sub
jscts; as an illustration, the Enoyclo-
padis Britannica will tell you moro
about an insignificant English borough
than a 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 ibsr-
tvs heroes.
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dreamer, the theorist or the man Of
leisure who can devote plenty of time
in looking up sAch abstruse SUBJECTS
as the inRnitesimal calculus, the cata-
combs Of Rome, or the dreamy time
before the flood, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest slang, ut is not in it"
According to it Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica), Albany, the capital Of New
York State, is still an overgrown town
Of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Dem
YER is still g hamlet Of 1900. while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population Of a triAe over 100000
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words. We moderHs do not want TO
wade through fowsry avenues OR
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclop@dia Britannica has been spun
out to the weariaome length OF twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to geb
at the wheat Of the subject at once,
disposing of useless and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, or the four
winds Of heaven.
The "Americanized" Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given in the twenty-four volumes Of
the Encyclopedia Britannica into ten
aoid, substantial volumes IN which
every sentence bristles with invalua-
bic information, and in which you can
get at the meat of a subject without
wading through a forest Of words.
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