, 1897-04-01
HERE'S YOUR OPP
P0RTUM|TY.
A New Eight-yolume En-
c~ycl0paedia
At About Your Own Price.

Every n who has had occasion Ia
consult the cumbersome old encyclo.
psdias for some needed information,
efsctually concealed in some long article,
will be glad to know Of The appearance
of . new general reference work built
along different lines, &C that any child
who can read may successfully consult
It.
Such . work is The New Standard
American Encyclopedias in eight large
quarto volumes, and which embraces
tho substance Of all the other encyclo-
psdias, besides . very large mount OF
new up-to-date matter none of them
contain. 1t introduces q vast number
Of now words, names, facts, ideas, in
ventions, methods and developments.
It treats, in all, ovsr $4,000 topics,
which is from 5000 to 10000 more than
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STANDARD American" have also lavishly
embellished the new work. There are
over $500 illustrations, which cover
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succession Of pleasing surprises. 1t also
contains over 800 colorsd maps, charts,
and diagrams, and constitutes a COM
plsts atlas of the world such Is no other
encyclopedias has undertaken to present.
This feature will DO found of the highest
value in the education Of the young, for
the pictures and colored maps will have
, distinct fascination for them, and thus
prove An important incentive to reading
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The professional or business man,
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d called upon to at once answer all sorts
Of questions; the toiling student and
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Another feature in which the now
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Statistics Of the population of the world,
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Thousands Of subjects of universal inter
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But 1t 10 in its treatment Of recent
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years old, and are silent regarding hun
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Ray" Ian MacLaren, DR.. Nansen, the
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