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oyclopRdia Britannica" is.
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reliable work in print. Nobody with
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will deny this statement.
There are blemishes 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 ago, has be-
come out Of date, and on account OF
the rapidity Of events, especially in
she United States, it has become as
work Of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made more progress in the last hum
bred years than in al the past ages.
Therefore the world demands not an
encyclopaedia that gives only the
history OF the past, but an encyclopm-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
Of recent years.
That Is just what the American
ized' Encyclopaedia Britannica does.
What is this Americanized EncycIo-
padia Britannica? It is the Encyolo-
pmdia Britannica 'Americanized,
therefore moderniSed, and broughb
down to date, namely, 1890
The Encyclopedia 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 tho men
who lived in the past few years, whose
history is that Of the world. Tho
Americanized Encyclopedia Britain
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
iahed by it; as great FOR all time to
come.
The Encyclopedias Britannica, COM
piled by Englishmen for the use OF
Englishmen, sights American SUBJ
jects; as an illustration, the Encyclo-
padia Britannica Will tell you moro
about nninsignifcantE 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 CTiconderoga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank OF hbeE-
tvs heroes.
The Encyclopedia Britannica no
doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the tbeorist OF the man Of
leisure who can devote plenty of tins
In looking up such abstruse subjects
ss the infnitesinal calculus, tho catn-
combs Of Rome, or the dreamy time
before the food, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest slang, at is not in it"
According to it Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica), Albany, the capital Of New
York State, is still an oTergrown town
Of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Dom
yer is still hamlet Of 1900, while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population OF a trife over 100000.
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words. We moderns do not want to
wade through fowery avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
oyclopadia Britannica has been spun
cut TO the wearisome length of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to gss
1T The wheat Of the subject at once,
disposing Of useless and meaningless
words to tie idle dreamer, or the four
winds Of heaven.
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given in the twenty-four volumes OF
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solid, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bristlss with invalua-
bic information, and IN which you can
set at the meat of a subject withous
TadiDg through a forest Of words
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