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cyclop@dia Britannica" is.
Throughout the English-speakina
world the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
ranked the best, most accurate ana
reliable work in print. Nobody With
any pretensions to literary Judgment
will deny this statement
There are blemishes in diamonds
60 there are in the Encyclopedias 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come out Of date, and ON account Of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
work of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made moro progress in the last hun
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 encyclops-
Ola that chronicles the mighty events
of recent years
That is just what the american
lied" Encyclopedias Britannica does.
What is this Americanized Encyclo-
p@dis Britannica? It is the Encyclo-
pmdia Britannica "Americanized,"
therefore nsodernaged, and broughs
down to date, namely, 1890.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says
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 meg
who lived in the past few years, whose
history is that of the world. The
Americanized Encyclopedia Britain
MICA contains the biographies Of nob
only the above great raen, but also Of
thousands OF others whose names win
be handed down to posterity and cher
ished by it. as great for all time to
come.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
piled by Englishmen for the use OF
Englishmen. sights American sub
jects; as an illustration, the Encyclo-
padia Britannica will tell you more
about an insignificant English borough
than a sovereign American State;
lengthy details about my Lord Tom
noddy, but Sadly silent about Ethan
Alien, whose acts as leader of the
Green Mountain Boys in capturing
Che first fort CTieondsroga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank Of liber-
tvs heroes.
The Encyclopedias Britsnnica no
doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the theoriss or the man Of
leisure who can devote plenty Of time
In looking up such abstruse subjects
as the infnitesimal calculus, the cats-
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 Bril-
tannica), Albany, the capital of New
York State, is still an overgrown town
Of only 10000 or so inhabitants, Den
YER is still hamlet of 1900, while
Chicago is put down for the mo4ess
population of triAe over 100000.
The spirit of the ago is to say what
is to be said, in the least possible
words. We moderns do not want to
wade through fowery avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by. which the En-
cyclop@dia Britannica has been spun
out to the weariEome 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 "Ansericanized" Encyclopedias
Britannica condenses the information
given in the twenty-four volumes OF
the Encyclopedia Britannica into ten
solid, substantial volumes in which
every sentence bfistles with invalua-
bic information, and in which you can
get at the meat of subject without
wadipg through a 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