The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-12

mutiiating eiipination would not no dts
covered by the hasty reader.
Now this was all right perhaps. but these
publishers went further and actually pub
iished this emasculated work. and entitled
il an edition Of the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA. 80.
with blazon offrontery told the public. and
tho Boston public at that. that theirs was
an honest" edition Of the Encyclopedia
Whas would you say 20 the man. who tried
10 sell YOU a pair OF wheels and shafts as
wagon?
Doa pair of heels and straw hat make
suit OF clothes?
No more does 10 covers and about 6oo0
pages OF putil"ted matter mako the tnoy-
clopedia britannica. with its 20 volumo9
aud over $4,000 pages. the storehouse OK tho
master-minds OF the world.
Can tho 10 pages OF. anatomy. writtenlY
the professor of Edinburgh University. Do
cut down, not rewritten. mind YOU. but cut
;n;SIsdS 62%n: g 20 pages bya novice and not DO
Can an article on astronomy by. Richard
A. Proctor be cnt three-iourths OF It's length
and not DO spoiled?
= Inns Is how the. revision" was made:
Like the fellow who tired 20 put bushel
ihto quart measure. the projectors OF this
glaring piece or MISREPRESENTATION. which
,,ns ,ney can an honest" encyclopedia, tried 70
puI 20 volumes OF 500 pages each into ~
volumes, OF 600 small octave pages and
what old they do? They lost more than
thev lett OF course.
upon examination we find that the article
on astronomy, written by Prof. Richard A.
rroctor. has been mutilated and cut down
iroill ou TO 20 pages anatomy from 1lQto2O
tsat assaicaitnrS a from 125 to 2s dt would seem
.lat americanS were not particularly IN
terested IN the. subject of agriculture) aero
nautics is cnt from 241s pages to l 1: acous-
alcs from 20 pages TO 2; algebra from 52
pages 10 10 tall OF the equations and -ormulig
the most important part-being omitted
entlrely); architecture is cut from % pages
a 20 90; alneduct. from | pages to 3ls; And
mas ,leen carried on in asimilar manner and
70 q IKE extent all through. without adding
anything new, and invariably rendering tho
matter treated unintelligible and unrelia-
ble.
The proprietors OF this fake" edition
again claim that "the biographies OF men
whose work was q heritage Of All ages as
ity. are kept for the American people, who
comprise II. themselves every nation and
every taste" How well thisis borne out may
pc see IN tho fact that the biography OF Ben.
Jamin Franklin has been cut from pages
to "a pages; Horace Greeley. from 2ts
pages TO page; Prof. Agassiz. from 3it
SsSea 70 hig pages SosePh Aadls9n lTSm
rom pages to 3 "a pages; Demosthenes,
from pages 20 4S4 pages; Aristotle, from
II pages to g pages; John Adams. from
cut down one-half.
Additional instances OF scissor-work. un.
controlle led by any intelligent thought, could
DO multiplied indefinitely. For instance.
, Alabama" has been reduced two-thirds
"..Alaska" one.half.,, Arkansas. one.half,
| Literature" two-thirds.. The treatment OF
| those particular American subjects shows
the general lopplng-of process used in
nearly all American subjects, for no, other
| purpose than 20 save space; and the alb
snrdity of the undertaking OF n few obscure
| Chicago literary hacks 90 revise and 10
amend the Encyclopedia Britannica" Is
too glaring TO require any extra comment.
III You Have Been Deluded
into purchasing this mutilated edition. you
clopedia Britannica. now offered by THE
BosToN DAILY GLOBE to its readers.
| This GLOBE edition we want you TO Icom.
pare, word for word line for line, with tho
high.priced original Edinburgh edition.
7 CUSy1ng S0 per volume