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That's what the 'Americanixed Ems
gyclopmdia Britannica' is.
Throughout the EngIisb-speaking
world tbs Encyclopaedia Britannica il
ranked the best. most accurate and
reliable work In print. Nobody with
any professions to literary judgments
will deny this Statements
There are blemishes in diamonds.
20 there are in tho Encyclopedias Bri.
tannica.
The ninth and latest edition Of tins
Encyclopedias Britannica, complied
from five to twenty years ago, has be-
como out Of date, and on account Of
the rapidity OF events, especially in
The United States, it has become IS
work Of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made moro progress IN the last hum
dred years than in all the past ages.
Therefore tho world demands not an
encyclopaedia that gives only the
history Of the past, but an enoyolope-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
Of recent years.
That is just what tho american
lied" Encyclopedias Britannica does.
What is this Americanized Encyclo-
p@dis Britannica It is the Encyclo-
p@dis Britannica "Americanizsd,"
therefore moderated, and brought
down TO date, namely, 1890.
The Encyclopedias 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 NOT
only the above great men, but also Of
thousands Of others whose names win
be handed dovnto postsrity and cher
ished by it as grsab for ell time to
come.
The Encyclopedias Britannica, COM
piled by Englishmen for the use OF
Englishmsn, sights American sub.
jects; as an illustration, the Encyclo-
padis Britannica viii tell you more
aboutaninsignifcant 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 (Ticondsroga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank OF ibeE-
ty's heroes.
The Encyclopedia Britannica no
doubt is q valuable work for the
dreamer, the theorist OF the man OF
leisure who can devote plenty Of time
In looking up such sbstruse subjects
50 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 not in it."
According to it Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica), Albany. the capital of New
York Stats. is still an overgrown town
of only 10000 or 30 inhabitants, Dem
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'whst
Is to be said, in the least possibls
words. We moderns do not want to
wade through fiowery avenues u
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclopadia Britannica has been spun
out TO the wearisome length of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to get
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 "Ansericanizsd" Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given in the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopedia Britannica into ten
cold, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bristlss with invalua-
bic information, and in which you can
get at the meat Of subject without
wading through q 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 to
make the following