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HEREVER the English language is

read you will find the new edition of Britannica. It is the one universal source of authoritative information wherever Anglo-Saxon civilization has spread. It is in ternational in its scope, its origin and its sale

For nearly 150 years the Britannica has occupied a unique position among books It is as valuable and as much used in the palace of the Czar of Russia as it is in the White House.

But the most striking feature of the dis tribution of the present new edition is not the fact that it has been sold in every civil ized country, but the fact that it has appealed as a necessity to every class. Kings, em perors and millionaires have realized that their elaborate libraries were incomplete with out it. Business and professional men have equally recognized its value to them. And thousands of men and women in the humbler walks of life, to whom the expenditure of $5.00 a month was a serious matter, have be grudged themselves other purchases and con centrated their book money upon acquiring this work, which is one of the greatest edu cational forces ever devised.

Why Does This Work Mean So Much to So Many?

(1) It contains material not to be found elsewhere such as the new discoveries in all the sciences; new inventions and devices; new wonders of medicine and surgery; new light on ancient peoples; in fact, all that is new and new views of all that is old.

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-From a recent letter
Copr. The Century Co.

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Maude Adams

as Peter Pan' IVANOWSKI

Price 25 cents each, postage paid

The Work of Great Artists at Moderate Prices

The Century prints are more truly works of art and less printed pictures than the ordinary plates. Each print is reproduced in full color from special plates and double mounted on the highest quality stock. Among the artists represented are: Maxfield Parrish, Jules Guérin, Sigismund de Ivanowski, Anna Whelan Betts, Sergeant Kendall, Clifford Ashley, Louis Loeb, Violet Oakley, and a number of other Write for catalogue to well known American artists.

Century Miniature. Dept., THE CENTURY CO., Union Square, NEW YORK

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