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"a MODERN INNOVATION.

That's what the "Americanized En-
cyclopedis Britannica" is.
Throughout the English-speaking
world the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
ranked tbs 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
Encyclopaedia 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come out Of date, and on account of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
awork 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 tho
history of the past, but en- encyclope-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
OF recent y 5ars.
That 10 just what the american
ized'' Encyclopedia Britannica does.
What is this Americanized Encyclo-
p@dia Britannica It is the Encyclo-
p@dia Britannica "Americanized,"
therefore modernized, 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, 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 Encyclopedia Britain
MICA contains the biographies Of nos
only the above great men, but also Of
thousands Of others whose names will
be handed down to posterity and cher
ished by it; as great for all time to
come.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
| piled by Enslishmen for the use Of
Englishmen, sights American SUBJ
iects; IS an illustration, the Encyclo-
padia Britannica will tell you more
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 rsak Of hber-
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 time
in looking up such abstruse subjects
az the infnitesimal calculus, the cata-
combs Of Rome, or the dreamy time
before the food, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest slang, sit is rot in it."
| According to it Encyclopaedia Bri-
tsnnica), Albany, the capital Of New
York State, is still an oyergrown town
of only 10000 or 80 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 moderrs do not want to
wade through fowery avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclopeedia Britannica has been spun
out to the wesrisome length Of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to geb
at the wheat of the subject at oncs,
disposing of useless and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, or the foug
winds of heaven.
The "Ansericdnized Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given In the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopedias Britannica into ten
solid, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bristles with invalus-
BILE information, and in which you Can
get at the meat of subject without
wadiDg through a forest Of words.
By contracting with the publishers
for large number Of sets we have
obtained exclusive right Of the work
for this section, and are enabled ia