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uyclop@dia Britannica" Ia.
Throughout the Engish-speakinz
world the Encyclopedias Britannica is
ranked the best. most accurats and
reliable work In print Nobody with
any professions to literary judgments
will deny this statement.
There are bleDnishes in diamonds-.
80 there are in the Encyclopedia Bri.
tannica.
The ninth and latest edition of the
Encyclopedia 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come out of date, and on account OF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
encyclopaedia that gives only the
history Of the past, but an sncyclops-
dia that chronicles The mighty events
of recent years.
That is just what the american.
lied" Encyclopedias Britannica does.
What is this Amerioanized EncycIo-
pedia Britannica It is the Eneyclo-
pgdie Britannica "Americanized,"
therefore undermined, and brought
down to date, namely, 1890
The Encyclopedia Britannica says
nothing sbous such men as Bismarck,
Gladstone, Thomas A. Edison, Kos
suth, Blaine, Cleveland, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin
Harrison, nor sven General Ulysses
s. Grant; in fact, nothing Of tie neH
who lived in the past few years, whose
history is that Of the world Tho
Americarizad Encyclopedias Britain
Mica contains the biographies o. noss
only the above great men, bat also ok
thousands Of others whose names viii
be handed down to posts<ity and cher
ished by il GO gFess for all time to
come.
The Enoyelopedis Britannica 'com~
piled by Englishmen for the use O.
Engishmen, sights American sub.
jects; as an illustration. the EncyOlo-
p@dis Britannica viii tell you more
about aninsignifcant English borough
than q sovereign American Statet
lengthy details about my Lord Tom-
noddy, but sadly silent about Ethan
Allen, whose acts as leader Of tho
Green Mountain Boys IN capturing
the first fort CTicondsFoga) from the
British In the War fer Independence
placed hirn in the front rank Of Hbsr.
tvs heroes.
The Encyclopssdis BEitannics no
doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the theoriss or the man Of
leisure who can devote plenty Of tino
In looking up such ebstruse subjects
rs the infnitesizasl calculus, the oata-
combs of Rome, or the dreamy time
before the food, but when Il comes
down to modern events, to use the
latest slang, sit is not in it."
According to it Encyclopedia Brs-
tannica), Albany, the capital Of New
York State, is still an oYergrown town
of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Dem
YER is still hamlet Of 1900, while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population Of tFiae over 40e,000.
The spirit of the ass is to say what
Is to be said, in the least possible
words. We moderns do not want to
wade through fowsry avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclopadia Britannica has been spun
out to the wearisome length Of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to ges
at the wheat Of the subject at once,
disposing of useless and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, OF the four
winds Of heaven.
The "Auericanigeds Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given in the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopaedia Britannica into ten
sold, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bristles with invalua-
bic information, and in Which you can
get at the meat of a subject withons
wading through forest of words.
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for large number Of sets We have
obtained exclusive right OF the work
for this section, and are enabled to.
make the following