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A NEW CENTURY: A NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA 



The New Popular 

 Encyclopedia. 



A LIBRARY IN ITSELF. A General Dic- 

 tionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, Biography, 

 and History. Edited by Charles Annandale, 

 M.A., LL.D., Editor of Ogilvie's "Imperial Dic- 

 tionary of the English Language". Profusely illustrated. In 14 handsome volumes, super- 

 royal 8vo, in Roxburgh library binding, 12s. 6d. per volume, net. 



A New Century demands a New Encyclopedia. As time advances, knowledge increases. To 

 sum up that knowledge a new Encyclopedia is required, and everyone ought to possess that new 

 Encyclopedia. 



The Gresham Publishing Company, having acquired exclusive control of the well-known Popular 

 Encyclopedia, are now issuing a New and Revised Edition of that famous authoritative work of 

 reference. 



The entire work has been revised to date under the editorship of Dr. Charles Annandale, assisted by 

 a staff of Specialists and Encyclopedic Experts. 



The New Popular Encyclopedia is a worthy successor to the previous edition, which numbered 

 among its contributors men of the high position of LORD Kelvin, Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, Pro- 

 fessor J. D. Everett, Mr. Comyns Carr, Captain Ord-Brown, Mr. M. M. Pattison-Muir, &c. 



In the matter of pictorial illustration the New Popular Encyclopedia is alone of its kind. In no 

 British Encyclopedia, not even in previous editions of the Popular, has so extensive a use been made 

 of the pictorial arts to assist the elucidation of the subject-matter. In addition to the large number of 

 plates in colour, there are very many plates in black and white : pictures of machinery-detail, portraits, 

 ordnance such as Vickers, Creuzot, and Krupp guns, flying - machines, ethnological types, and the 

 hundred-and-one different objects which can be rendered clearer by the use of pictorial illustration. A 

 complete series of Maps is also provided. 



The Supplements form a very special feature of the New Popular. Besides containing many articles 

 on general subjects they give biographies of living men or of men recently deceased. Thus we have 

 Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Kruger, Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Mr. Arthur Balfour, 

 Mr. George Wyndham, Lord Roberts, General Buller, Major-General Baden-Powell 

 (whose brother. Major Baden-Powell, secretary of the Aeronautical Society, contributes the Article on 

 Aeronautics), &c., &c. 



"The New Popular Encyclopedia" is a perfect library in itself, superseding, practically, the 

 necessity of having recourse to a large number of books on different topics, and furnishing, at moder- 

 ate cost, a complete body of information on all subjects. 



It is a Universal Gazetteer, giving accounts of the natural and political divisions, countries, 

 cities, rivers, lakes, &c. , throughout the world. 



It is a Universal History, in which are to be found full general accounts of all the countries 

 of the world, with important events and details treated at length under specific headings. 



It is a Biographical Dictionary — giving the lives of all important historic characters, statesmen, 

 lavi'yers, literary men, scientists, inventors, engineers, artists, musicians, theologians, &c. 



It is a Commercial Dictionary, explaining economic principles, treating fully the practical details 

 of the chief industries, and giving elaborate accounts of manufacturing processes. 



It is a Dictionary of the Sciences— Students of natural history, botany, geology, astronomy, 

 chemistry, &c., will find an ample general record of modern progress in the special sciences. 



It is a Dictionary of the Fine Arts, explaining the technical terms, theories, and processes, 

 and giving a historic and biographical record of the various branches of the Arts. 



"The New Popular Encyclopedia" is, moreover, a Dictionary of the Practical Arts and 

 Handicrafts, of Law, Medicine, Household Matters, Education, Music, Games, and Sports. 



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