The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-29
"A MODERN INNOVATION.

a MODERN INNOVATION.
That's what the "Americanized En-
cyclop8dia Britannica" is.
Throughout the English-sreakinR
world the Encyclopedias Britannica is
ranked the best, most accurate and
reliable work in print. Nobody with
any pretensions to literary Judgment
will deny this statement.
There are biemishes In diamonds
SO there are in the Encyclopaedia Bsi-
tsnnica.
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come out of date, and on account Of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
swork of reference comparatively old.
Gladstone states that the world has
made more progress In the last hun
dred years than in all the past ages.
Therefore the world demands not an
encyclopedias that gives only the
history of the past, but an encyclcpe-
dia that chronicles the mighty events
of recent years.
That is just what the american
Ized" Encyclopedia Britannica does.
What is this Americanized Encyclo-
padia Britannica? It is the Encyclc,-
padia Britannica "Americanized,"
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 will
be handed down to posterity and cher
ished by iti as great for all time to
come.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
piled by Englishmea for the use OF
Englishmen, sights American SUBJ
iects; as an Illustration, the Encyclo-
padSa Britannica will tell you more
about insignificant 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 (Ticonderoga) from the
British in the War for Independence
placed him in the front rank of lber-
tvs heroes.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica no
doubt is a valuable work for the
dreamer, the theoEist or Che man of
leisure who can devote plenty of time
in looking up such abstruse subjects
as the inhnitesizaal 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, ''it is not in it
ACCORDING 10 it Encyclopedias Bri.
tannica), Albany, the capital OF Now
York State, Is stiIl an ovsrgrown town
of only 10000 or SO inhabitants, Den
yer is still q hamlet Of 5000, while
Chicago is put down for the modest
population Of tFiAe over 10000.
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 fowsEy avenues Of
beautiful phrases, by which tho En-
cyclopRdia Britannicahas bsea spun
out to the vsarisome length Of twenty
four cumbersome volumes, bat to ge5
at the wheat Of the subject at once,
disposingof USELESS and meaningless
words to the idle dreamer, or the four
winds of heaven.
The "Amsrtcas6sed" Encyclopedias
Britannica condeases the information
given in the tWsnty-foQr volumes Of
the Encyclopaedia Britannica into ten
solid, substantial volumes IN which
every sentence brissles With invalus-
bic information, and IN Which yea can
get at the meat Of asabject without
wading through ferest OF words.
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for large number q sets We have
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