The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-28

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cyclop@dia Britannica" lie.
Throughout the English-speakina
world the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
ranked the best. most accurats and
reliable work in print. Nobody with
any pretsnsiSns to literary Judgment
will deny this statement.
There are blemishes in diamonds
20 there are in tho Encyclopedia Bril-
tannica.
The ninth and latest edition of the
Encyclopedia 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come out Of date, and on account OF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
awork 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 the world demands not an
encyclopedia that gives only the
history of the past, but an encyclopae-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
Of recent ) ars.
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led Encyclopedia Britannica does.
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pedia Britannica It is the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica "Americanized,"
therefore DlOderniSed, aud brought
down to date, namely, 1890.
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nothing about such men as Bismarck,
Gladstone, Thomas A. Edison, Kos
suth. Blaine, Cleveland, Henry Ward
Beeoher, Jefferson Davis, Benjamin
Harrison, nor even General Ulysses
s. Grant; in fact, nothing OF the mon
who lived in the pest few years. whose
history is that of the world. Tia
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nics contains the biographies of not
only the above great men, but also OF
thousands Of others whose names will
ba handed down to posterity and cher
iahed by it; as great for all time to
come.
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Engl shmen, sights American sub.
jects; as an Illustration, the Encyclo-
ped,a Britannica will tell you moro
about an insignificant English borough
than a sovereign American State;
lengthy details about my Lord Tom
ncddy, but sadly silent about Ethan
Allen, whose acts as leader of the
Green Mountain Boys in capturing
The first fort (riconderoga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank OF liber-
tvs heroes.
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as the infnitesimal calculus, the csta-
combs of Rome, OF the dreamy time
before the food, but when it comes
down to modern events, to use the
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tannica), Albany, the capital of New
York State, is still an oysrgrown town
of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Dem
yer is still q hamlet OF 1900, willis
Chicago is put down for the modest
population Of triAe over 100000.
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wade through fowery avenues "
beautiful phrases, by which the En-
oycloDmdia Britannica has been spun
out to the wearisome length Of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, but to gea
rt the wheat OF the subject at once,
disposing of useless and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, or the four
winds OF heaven,
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given in the twenty-four volumes OF
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aolid, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bfistles with invalua-
bic information, and in which you can
get at the meat of a subject without
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