The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-21

That's what the 'Americanizsd En-
cyclopssdia Britannica" is.
Throughout the Englisb-speakin4
world the Encyclopedias Britannica 10
ranked the best, most accurate and
reliable work in print. Nobody with
any pretensions to literary judgments
will decay 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come out Of date, and on account OF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
the United States, it has become as
work of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made moro progress in the last hum
drsd years than in all the past ages.
Therefore the world demands not an
encyclopedias that gives only the
history Of the past, but an encyclope-
dis that chronicles the mighty events
Of recent years.
That is just what the "Amsrican-
lied" Encyclopedias Britannica does.
What is this Americanizsd Encyclo-
pedia Britannica? It is the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica "Americanized, )"
therefore modernSsed, 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
Amsricanized Encyclopedias Britain
MICA contains the biographies Of not
only the above great men, but also Of
thousands OF others whose names viii
be handed down to posterity and cher
ished by il; as great for all time to
come.
The Encyclopedias Britannica, com.
piled by Englishmen for the use Of
Englishmen, Sights American sub
jects; as an illustration, the Encyclo-
pgdia Britannica viii tell You more
about an insignificant English borough
than q sovereign American State;
lengthy details about my Lord Tom
noddy, bat sadly silent about Ethan
Allen, whose scts 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 hber-
TVS heroes.
The Encyclopedias Britannica no
Doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the theorist or the man OF
leisure who can devote plenty Of tins
In looking up such abstruse subjects
as 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, 1T is not in it."
According to it Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica), Albany, the capital of New
York State, is still an overgrown town
Of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Dem
yer is still hamlet of 1900, while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population OF trif1e over 100000.
The spirit OF the age is to say whss
Is to be said, in the least possible
words. We moderns do not want to
wade through. howery avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
cyclop@dia 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, or the four
winds Of heaven.
The @Americanized7 Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given in the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopedias Britannica into ten
solid, substantial volumes In which
every sentence Dristles with invalua-
bic information, and in which you can
get at the meat of a subject without
gading through a forest of words
By contracting with the publishers
for a large number of sets We have
obtained exclusive right of the work
for this section, and are enabled to