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an accurate and judicial story by scholars and experts.
 The feature of this new volume which will strcnSly appeal to all Americans, is the fact that the pub fishers will apply to the prepara tion of the new volume the same high standards of impartialitv and accu- raCy and thoroughness of treatment that mark the parent work itself. The new volume will be, so to speak, q complete reference work on the great
 est war of all history.
 As is well known. the editor and contributors to the Britannica havi; unusual facilities for gathering off cial information from all the bellis- erent natiCns-the kind of informa- ticn that will make the new volume. , notwithstanding it's wide scope as
 planned. just as good a book as the
 Britannica itself. Throughout the Britannica's career of almost 150 years nothing O, the sort has ever heen attempted or suggested. Even after Waterloo. which ended the pe-
 riod of Napoleonic wars which had cCnvulsed Europe for upwards of l eighteen years, the publishers of the 1 Britannica. then in it's fifth edition. did not signalize tl,e event by doing anything for the public out of the or
 dinarv But this is a much more en-
 terprising age. as ,FelI as an age of
 millions of eager readers anI stu
 dents of affairs. The publishers feel
 that the war has created an occasion
 for increasing the usefulness of the { Britannica on the one hand, and on the other. for putting into concrete
 and authorized form, or present-da3
 readers and for posterity, the facts
 of a chapter of history which will be
 of immeasurable influence upon the i future of civilization everywhere in l the world.
 i The publishers further announce
 that the new volume will record any
 changes, geographical. political or otherwise. that may follow upon the i ms king of peace. It wi:l also give ! maps wherever necessary: and an- other feature will be the inclusion i of biographies of the lea6ing person
 ages of each nation, military, naval 1 ard diplomatic, who have played l l prominent part in the war Many or i them were practically unknown when
 the war started The history of our | own Civil war affords many examples of comparatively obscure men who won immortal fame on one side or
 thn other of that conflict.
 |. In this connection it is interesting to note that when the present wa 1 began iT August 1914, Sir Douglas i Haig, now Field Marshal, was in
 charge of tire military camp at Alder shot: General P,tain, the new Chief of Staff of the French armies in the
 field was a retired colonel the mighty von Hindenburg was enjoying, life
 as a privete individual in a small
 town in Germany: Lvoff the new
 Russian premier. was practically un-
 known outside of official circles ir
 Petrograd
 While the greater part of the con
 tents of the new Britannica volume
 will be connected narrative of the
 war. the less spectacular results will
 be covered also. Il will tell of any | new discoveries or progress in the industries and sciences especially in
 fields that have been directly affected by the war. such as surgery. aviation, the development of the submarine the utilization of man-power in the ma ionalization of industries, new de- : velopmerts in public hygiene, and i'll } anN other directions found necessary. This Tn affect will make the new
 volume a supplement to the Encyclo- | paedia Britannica itself-a virtual , revision of the work. which will bling it abreast of the worlds knowledge , as it stands at the end of the war. The new volue will be issued in bindings to match the Britannica. and the price al which 1t will be sold to present owners of the Britannica will l not exceed the per-voluTe price oi the Britannica as now sold.