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B ■ \ \2*>7, '• i - occupies one-tnird, of the space ' 1)1 Bible) paper. •* , Jb t , °' t" e old one, thanks to India paper. ■{' "' *'•»•* v - ■ I .^T he new Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which a ; few copies *' f: vfl&red: to prcmnpt New Zealand )&U the :; mi %^®jP %^" ce / »s a new ' yrfitkr'Ajt. eyerf sense oMhe wdrd. (i ln jthtf -first place, a strikfhg nbyelty Has been obtained in its rnan'u[!^jftHl»^^tbe:/emplciyiTient of^ry/thin India paper. This not f^y.r? ol " o^ 8 tne bull^ of the work to one-third that of its' pre- :: decessor (as shown in the illustration) without any diminution '■ in gize of type, but also makes it possible to hold a volume in L?H® nand and read it comfortably in an easy chair. fln entirely TresD Swrpey of tv mtWs fyiQwMtt, | .dfte jfniyersity of Cambridge feds justified By far the large* part of articles which contain ;In claiming that t the 11th edition of- the 1 traces r of a previous edition is otherwise t Encyclopaedia '-'Bntaamica is nqt merely a accounted for. Many of the writers who con- *„,• new edition," in the common sense 'wiridi , tributed in their youth to the 9th edition, like revision of a wort already exist- Sir George Darwin ( "Tide"), or Mr. Theodore -Hflgr&ttt-a-new work in the widest sense o£ the Watts-Dunton ("Poetry"), are to-day the ; term. 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Whidh" had appeared in any previous edition.- much Of their" former article as" was still • up- \ This would break the continuity of the work, to-date, adding whatever had been rendered • and impair the highest tradition of a century necessary by new discoveries or new ideas. j and a half.^ The ten previous editions of the Sir Philip Watts, the designer of the "Dreadj Encyclopaedia Britannica must be counted nought, " wrote an article on modern ship- _" among the sources of the 11th edition : and, building in the 10th edition, much of which he \ nevertheless, the latter may truthfully be called has incorporated in his masterly survey of the *i a Jftew. .work, in the sense-of being, throughout, , whole subject in the 11th edition. 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