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Public Notices. THE HISTORY OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRiTAPGA Is closely connected with the history of the intellectual and material progress during the past century. Its successive imprints bear dates ranging*from 1771 down to the present second 1898 reprint. Through 'dl its changes the ‘ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ’ has occupied a position of peculiar authority. German and French works of general reference are, in their respective countries, the subject of constant discussion and controversy, but the impartiality and sincerity, the scholarship and precision, of the .-Britannica,’ are unquestioned. The whole body of human knowledge has changed, since the first edition of the ‘Britannica 1 appeared in 1771, and the enlargements and revisions of the work have kept pace, with the march of learning. But the fine sense of responsibility which animated a “Society of Gentlemen” (as the quaint old title-page described the first editors) has proved a lasting tradition. 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