SATURDAY THE LAST DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 3 April 1902, Page 2

SATURDAY THE LAST DAY.

The history of the " Encyclopedia Britannica " is closely connected with the history of the intellec/ual and material progress during the past century. Through all these years the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " "has occupied a position of peculiar nuthority. German and French works of general reference are, in their countries, the subject of constant discussion and controversy, but the impartiality and sincerity, the scholarship and precision of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica" are unquestioned. The whole body of human knowledge has chaaged since the first edition of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica" 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 " the society of gentlemen" (as the quaint old title page describes the first editors) has proved a lasting tradition. No contributor has ever been asked to write upon a subject" which he has not made especially his.own, and no personal or corporate bias has ever been suffered to interfere with the broad honesty of the work. For a short time longer the work may be had in New Zealand on favourable terms, offered by the Daily Mail. There is no time to lose. The publishers announce the withdrawal of the offur in New Zealand on Saturday, April sth.