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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 26 May 1904, Page 6

A Great Enterprise and its im"jTJNDER the Editorship of Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, the Encyclopedia Bntannica has been brought absolutely up-to-date in respect of all subject,, and the recently completed work in 35 large quarto volumes is to-day offered direct by the publishers, " The Times," London, to the people of New Zealand, at less than half the catalogue price (already in force in the United Kingdom, and very shortly to be in force in this country), and upon a system of instalments so favourable that working men, earning wages of only 25/- a week, have been enabled to secure the invaluable possession for themselves and their children. This bare statement of the situation with which Rhodes is by Lady Luyard (Miss Flora Shaw) \ Sir the following pages ha\e to deal sums up an enterprise Fiederiok Lugard and Sir Harry Johnston write upon that is full of interest at every turn, that has a hun- those portions of Central Africa which they have won dred claims upon the reader's attention The history for the Empire ; FiAd-Mar*tuU tiir bvelyn Wood descriof the book itself, which, throughout the period of bes the Egyptian Army, of which he was the first British more than 130 years since the appearance in Edinburgh Sirdar; Aa/ntral sir ypnan tit. dye ana Str J. C. R. of the first ediuon in thiee volumes, has won and con- Colomb are among the naval experts who contribute sohdated for itself a supreme position, would make an their special knowledge. Among the men of science who interesting chapier itself Interest, again, attaches to have helped to make the book are Lord Kelvin, whom every one among the names of the two thousand con- some hold to be the greatest student of Physics since tribut-ors who have collaborated to make the great Newton ; Laid Ray eiyh, the discoverer of Argon ; Sir work what it is— from the Editor-in-Chief, whose un- William < roo/ces the inventor of the Crookes tubes used mailed knowledge of men and affairs in every quarter * n tne discovery of the X-rays ; l rofe^or Dewar, who of the globe has been gained from the widest experience has liauefied th e air and was the first to obtain solid in positions the most favorable for observation hydrogen; Sir Archibald beikie, the great geologist. through the long roll of celebrated men whose names Mr - Marim Craiv f' mi writes on contemporary Rome, and are familiar the world over, to the man whose inti- amollg othe J me ; n "d women of letters who contribute, mate acquaintance with some novel process m manufac- a J' e , JJrs ' /* U»'l>'WU »'l>'W '™ > '/^ Oliver hobbes, Mr. ture, some method in contemporary commerce, or ,ome jj nn f ct ° L^ o *'l' 1 Uorley Mr Austin Dobson, Sn „ , , , . „.V, , , Leslie Stephen, and Mr Swinburne. Dr. Natisenax\d Sir Martin rapidly iis.n* locality has. qualified him to become a c Q the travellers who ive their experi . contributor to a book which stands as the highest enjCes ; Mr Jampß BnJchi Mr . j. v. C jiodlty (who was authority, the final- court of appeal, in all subjects. chosen to wrjte the Mstory of cf oroliation)> 2000 Of the most distinguished Men ir s l' c " cer Walpolc are among those who contribute ±v r\ articles dealing with recent history, worthily carrying OT tne Uay on the great traditions set in the articles on former The great national library of reading and reference epochs by Freeman, Gardiner, Seeley, Fyffe. The author has ah\a>s been famous for the distinction of its con- of the article dealing with the latest theories of Ecotnbutois , but at no period of its history has the En- nomics is P,ofe^oi lleivina, who was lately called away cyclopaedia Britannica so brilliantly represented the fram nis professorial duties by Mr. Chamberlain to debest thought of its time. The Editor himself has said vote his expert knowledge to investigations on the burn- " The combination of ' The Times ' with the Encyclo- in 6 subject of fiscal reform. The Departmental Editor paedia Britannica enabled the editors to appeal with foT Sports and Games is Mr. A. XT. Watson, famous special Jorce to the most eminent experts on all h ™ nom-de-plume of " Rapier," and as Editor of subjects " Catholic readers will be interested to know c Badminton Library. . . The list might be conthat among those who lent their special knowledge to tinued trough many pages, and yet the roll of disthe ta.sk of bringing the work up to date were his tinguished contributors would not be exhausted. Eminence Ctudmul Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, and his Eminence the late „,,u ,u\ Ya»<jli(fi Archbi- The Most UP-TO-DATE Book in shop of Westminster. Wherever we look we find the Fxistence highest authority. The author of the articles bringing the subject of slup-building down to the development of The Encyclopaedia Britannica is to-day the most the submarine boat, is the Director of Naval Construe- up-to-date of all encyclopaedias. No other, great or tion to the Admiralty, Mi. 1 luliy Wafts himself, who (small, can compare with it in this respect. was for six years Naval Architect for Armstrong, Whit- But it is not merely because it does inolude all the worth, and Co , until he was callled to succeed Sir latest facts, figures, and developments that the EncyGeorge White at the Admiralty. The author of article clopaedia Britannica strikes the reader as being so exon canals is the engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal, eetptionally up-to-date. The conviction is even more s n I'j Leader William* ; the builder of the Eddystone strikingly brought home to him when he notices the Lighthouse writes on lighthouses, Mr. W i rer/wtlien great length at Which recent history and the latest DoiK/la-^ consulting engineer to the Governments of developments are treated. New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, etc. he This fulness in the treatment of contemporary life, Hon. 11'//// mPp "be Reeves Agent-General for the Co- this extreme degree of recency, is one of the most lony, brings the history of New Zealand down to the important among the exceptional characteristics which latest date, Mr. T. A. Co<>hl<m, Government Statisti- place the Encyclopaedia Britannica beyond comparison." cian, whose report on the decline of the birthrate every It has been computed that more than a quarter one has been quoting, supplies the statistical portion of its total space is occupied exclusively with the of the articles on Australia ; the biography of Cecil history, the personalities, the discoveries, and the ad-