: ANNOUNCEMENT BY 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ¢nglana) 
IN ALL ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES 
IN REGARD TO THE NEW (11th) EDITION OF THE 
NCYCLOPADIA BRITANNICA 
Py the new (11th) Edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica (in 28 volumes 
Ts Index), which has been in preparation for eight years, is in the 
printers’ hands, and advance subscriptions will now be accepted, but 
no remittance need be sent until after delivery. This new work, which 
will be published by the University of Cambridge, will embody certain 
new features as regards its literary contents, editorial plan, and format, 
—which it is the purpose of this announcement in the United States and 
Canada, and of similar ones in Great Britain, Australasia, India, and 
elsewhere, to make public at the same time. 
was issued in 1768-71, and the last completely 
new edition was te Ninth, issued in 25 volumes 
| between 1875 and 18 
_ The reputation ao antherity of the Bee cree 
Britannica have for many ousehold w 
in all English-speaking countries. To goes ae 
authority has always been acknowledged with frank 
and unqualified acceptance by all intelligent persons 
is to state no more than the literal truth. 
ik first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica 
years been 
has given it, during r4o years of continuous existence, 
a pre-eminence which has never been approached— 
and appears to be unapproachable. In its own way 
it stands forth so conspicuously that no other book in 
any language can be compared to it. Regarded from 
the point of view of a vast lite erary monument erected 
} by scholars, each successive generation adding to it, 
strengthening if; aS it, broadening its founda- 
}tions and widen: = its proportions, it has come to 
possess a character and a dignity all its own. 
The last as new edition (the Ninth) was 
built on lines of greater comprehensiveness than 
| any of its predecessors, and its literary contents reached 
a higher level of excellence than had previously been 
ptained. It represented the point of view of the 
_ 
‘eighties... Since then, the progress of discovery and 
the cares on of the scientific spirit to every branch 
of activity have resulted in a virtual reconstruction in 
the premises and eae upon which a large part 
of the knowledge of that day was based. It is not 
necessary here to recapitulate the fields in which this 
been made. The fact 
remains that a work affording an entirely new and 
original survey of universal knowledge, ad on 
the same lines of comprehensiveness which marked 
the previous edition, and maintaining its high reputa- 
tion, was not only necessary—it was inevitable. 
astonishing revolution has 
Editorial Expenses of the 1 
£163,000 ($815 000) 
HE editorial cost alone 
tributors, editors 
th Edition 
the sum paid to con- 
and editorial assistants dur- 
g the last eight years—has been £163,000 
($815, ey more than twice the sum (£60,000) simi- 
larly expended for the ninth edition. Nearly all the 
articles in the last edition have been superseded by 
new ones, and thousands of new headings never before 
entered in the Encyclopedia sacred have been 
introduced. In those cases where a fresh survey, in 
the opinion of experts, could aieee no better basis 
U. C—xrM 
