By Specialists 

 for Non- 



Specialists. 



and now published again in a magnificent new Eleventh Edition under the 

 auspices of the Cambridge University Press? 



Because the Encyclopaedia Britannica is more than a book it is an 

 institution. It has endured because it deserved to endure. It has come to 

 be the vehicle by which men of learning, men of action and practical experts 

 can best hand down their knowledge for the instruction of the public, 

 knowledge which in many cases has been in advance of the age and not 

 available to the reader in any other work. The utility of such a work at 

 once appeals to a very wide circle, to all intelligent persons, in fact. 



When a manufacturer is considering the purchase of a 

 patent on a new machine, he consults a specialist on patent 

 law. When a railroad company is planning to build a new 

 terminal, its officers consult with specialists on real estate, 

 specialists on engineering, specialists on architecture. We 

 are living in an age of specialization. To each one of 

 us comes, inevitably, an immediate need for specialized 



information. This information must be exact, it must be accurate, it must 



be such information as only an authority can give. 



The new Encyclopaedia Britannica answers this need. 

 It gives the kind of information demanded. It does so 

 because the new Encyclopaedia Britannica was projected 

 and then produced as a co-operative undertaking on the 

 part of the most competent authorities without regard 

 to country. The Editors recognized that, in a large sense, 

 the whole civilised world is now one in thought, in intel- 

 lectual sympathy, and in aspiration. They therefore approached their 

 task in no merely national spirit, but in the spirit which recognises that 

 scholarship to-day knows no nationality. The 40,000 articles were written 

 by some 1,500 contributors, representing the highest scholarship and the 

 best practical knowledge of the twentieth century wherever these could be 

 found. In pursuance of this policy, not British scholars alone, but the 

 leading American, French, and German authorities, and the best authorities 

 of eighteen other countries, were enlisted as contributors. 



The Editor-in-chief, before selecting his contributors, con- 

 sulted the great authorities in each field of learning or prac- 

 tical achievement concerning the allotment of articles, the 

 choice of the best writers, the arrangement of the material, 

 and the best method of its presentation. All the great 

 institutions of learning were represented, the universities 

 of Oxford, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Paris, Berlin, 



" A monument to the learning of the Anglo-Saxon race such as no other people 

 has ever reared to itself." The Nation, New York. 



