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THE OOLOGIST. 



<>eive of their existence in a vast wilder- 

 ness and without man." 



As to the future, we can only hope 

 our song birds will be able to fight out 

 their war for independence and come 

 •out victorious over their British invad- 

 ers; that our more retired species will 

 accept civilization when it is forced 

 upon them, and that their songs, re- 

 hearsed from morn till eve, will grow 

 richer and sweeter as time rolls by. 



Some species will, inevitably, grow 

 extinct, and others, much to be mourn- 

 ed, will decrease in numbers; but we 

 will, however, have to count them 

 among the prices, which we are daily 

 paying for an ever advancing civiliza- 

 tion. 



Edward P. Carlton, 



Wauwatosa, Wis. 



BLACK GETS A BLACK EYE, 



A Waw York Judge Renders a Decision in favor of 



th 3 R, S.Peale Reprint of the Encyclopedia 



Britannica, 



[New York Special] — Judge Wallace, 

 In the United States Circuit Court rend- 

 dered a decision today refusing to grant 

 an injunction against the firm of Ehrich 

 Bros., to restrain them from selling the 

 "Encyclopaedia Britannica," published 

 by R. S. Peale & Co. of Chicago. The 

 complainants are the firm of Black & 

 Co., publishers of the orginal work at 

 Edinburgh, Scotland. In his decision 

 Judge Wallace holds that rival publish- 

 ers in this country have a legal right to 

 use the contents of the original edition, 

 except such portions of them as are 

 covered by copyrights, secured by 

 American "authors. The defendant's 

 work, he finds has substituted new arti- 

 cles for these copyrighted ones. 



This decision is a square set back to 

 the book trust, and directly in the inter- 

 est of education and general inteligence. 

 As an educational factor in every house- 

 hold, no work in all literature is so im- 

 portant and desirable as this King of 

 Encyclopedias, of which it has been 

 said that "If all other books should be 

 clesroyed, the Bible excepted, the world 

 would have lost very little of its inform- 

 ation. 1 ' Until recently its high cost has 

 been a bar to its popular use, the price 



being $5.00 per volume, $125.00 for the 

 set in the cheapest binding. But last 

 year the publishing firm of R. S. Peale 

 & Co. of Chicago issued a new reprint 

 of this great work at the marvelous 

 price of $1.50 per volume. That the 

 public quick to appreciate so great a 

 bargain is shown by the fact that over 

 half a million volumes of this reprint 

 were sold in less than six months. It 

 is the attempt of the proprietors of the 

 high priced edition to stop the sale of 

 this desirable low priced edition, which 

 Judge Wallace has effectually squelch- 

 ed by his decision. We learn that R. 

 S. Peale & Co. have perfected their edi- 

 tion, correcting such minor defects as 

 are inevitable in the first issue of so 

 large a work and not only do they con- 

 tinue to furnish it at the marvelously 

 low price quoted above, but they offer 

 to deliver the complete set at once, <*n 

 small easy payments to suit the couven - 

 ience of customers. It is a thoroughly 

 satisfactory edition, printed on good 

 paper, strongly and handsomely bound 

 and has new maps, later and better 

 than any other edition. We advise all 

 who want this greatest and best of all 

 Encyclopaedias to get particulars from 

 the publishers, R. S. Peale & Co., Chi- 

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