An encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of entries

as well as a dictionary

The
Century
Cyclopedia
of Names

Its thorough revision

the Tichborne case, also called the case of the claimant; and the Tweed case, for frauds perpetrated against the municipality of New York. In each instance it gave all the facts which the average reader would require. In the new edition such encyclopedic definitions have been greatly increased, and now under case one may find the Standard Oil case and the American Tobacco case, decided during 1911.

The new encyclopedic matter in the enlarged edition includes an addition of 100 per cent. to the article on wheat; 100 per cent. to that on cancer; nearly 300 per cent. to the definition of turbine; 200 per cent. to the article on sculpture; etc., etc.

Thousands of words were thus treated, and as a result The Century Dictionary was rightly recognized and valued as an encyclopedia. No other American dictionary can justly claim that character. Its method of subdividing its encyclopedic information into a vast number of articles under separate headings makes it its own index, and places any item that may be desired at once at the command of the consulter.

IN 1894 The Century Cyclopedia of Names was issued in one volume and became a part of the dictionary. It is a lexicon of proper names, containing brief articles upon virtually every kind of thing to which a proper name has been given,-names of famous persons, dead and living, of all periods, nations, and vocations; of characters in fiction; of races and tribes; of countries and places, ancient and modern; of rivers, seas, lakes; of battles, wars, treaties; of buildings, statuary, paintings; of books, operas, and plays; of clubs, noted vessels, famous race-horses, the great streets of the world; etc., etc. No such book was ever issued (it is considered the most useful reference volume in the English language); each name is pronounced, its various spellings are recorded, and in many cases its derivation is given. It comprises about sixty thousand titles -more than the titles, of all kinds, comprised in any other cyclopedia. With every printing, changes have been made in the plates of The Century Cyclopedia of Names-for new people spring into prominence, wars and revolutions occur, and deaths must be noted. In the present revision the entire volume has been thoroughly revised, and 3000 entries have been added to the original edition, including the names of persons who have come into notice and events which have occurred as late as 1913.

Glass vessel, showing Air-twist.

The
Century
Atlas

IN 1897 The Century Atlas of the World was added to the set and at once took its place as one of the most complete and beautiful atlases ever produced. It, too, has been thoroughly revised, brought down to date, and enlarged. The whole force of the best mapmakers in America has been engaged for a year in incorporating into the Atlas the most recent geographical information. Entirely new maps of the South Pole (and Peary's discovery of the North Pole has, of course, been noted), of Oklahoma, of Alaska, of Western Canada, and of the Panama Canal, have been made, and new railroads

GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE TO THE BEGINNING OF
THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV.

Reproduction, in miniature, of one of the large quarto pages (four times the size of this) of the new revision of The Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas, showing a group

of illustrations. This is one page of an insert

of four pages facing the word "furniture."

Its

complete revision

and new boundaries have been shown on the old maps. There are also maps showing the interurban electric lines of parts of the United States-a decided novelty in an atlas. The great geographical index

The illustrations

Additions to the illustrations

One of the group illustrating Automobiles. Combination Fire Wagon.

has been entirely reset, and now gives the most recent figures for populations, including those of the United States Census of 1910 and of the latest European censuses. It contains about 180,000 entries.

It was hoped to have the new revision of The Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas ready many months before it was, but publication was impossible until all of the latest figures of the United States, and other, censuses were received and tabulated for entry both in the Cyclopedia of Names and in the Atlas.

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THE ORIGINAL EDITION of this great work was approached by any other reference book in the number and beauty of its more than 7500 illustrations. Nearly half of them were engraved on wood by skilled artists whose craft itself is one of the arts. The artists who drew the pictures were chosen from among those who had made The Century Magazine famous for its art work. Ernest Thompson Seton furnished about five hundred of the illustrations of animals and birds. In the new edition 1900 pictures have been added; and a novel feature is the inclusion of a number of full-page plates, many of them in color and all of them edited. by experts.

For instance, opposite the word furniture will now be found a fourpage insert containing nearly fifty pictures of furniture, covering the periods most admired by collectors and connoisseurs, beginning with the Gothic and ending with the early part of the nineteenth century. These pictures not only show examples of the best European schools, but also include the work of American cabinet-makers such as Duncan Phyfe. This was prepared under the editorship of Miss Esther Singleton, whose work on furniture is well known. Mr. John Kimberly Mumford, the expert on rugs, is responsible for an insert in which exquisite Persian and other rugs have been reproduced in the colors of the originals. Full-page groups of illustrations cover the subjects of dogs, automobiles, lace, ordnance, flying-machines, architecture, birds, insects, flags, seals of the States, etc., etc.

Additions

to the revision

OTHER ADDITIONS to the new edition comprise a colored chart illustrating the emigration from Europe to the United States. and the immigration into the United States from all countries; four

pages of charts showing the cost of living in the United States and Europe in recent years, with the rate of wages; a chronological table of the chief events of history (over 2000 entries), so arranged that any one may see at a glance the most important happenings all over the world at any given time; a chronological chart covering the makers of European and American literature from the days of Sophocles and earlier to Maeterlinck and Weir Mitchell; a list of rulers from Menes to George V; and a genealogical chart of European royal houses.

WHEN The Century Dic-
tionary was first planned it
was determined that in beauty
of typography and convenience.
of form it should stand with-
out a peer. An entirely new
font of type was designed and
manufactured especially for it.
In this respect no improvement
can be made; but the new edi-
tion is far superior to the old
in the matter of paper, print-
ing, and binding. Fifteen
years ago the question of the
use of thin India paper was
considered thoroughly, and sample volumes on that paper were
printed, bound, and tested by use. Again it has been tried, but
rejected as before, because, while India paper is admirably suited to
a book which must be made light for reading, it is not suited to one
made for hasty reference where instant information is desired and
the pages must be turned over in the shortest possible time. Nor is
it suited to our exquisite wood-engravings, needing a fine surface for
their printing.

One of the illustrations in the group covering Lace.
Pillow for making Bobbin Lace. (From the Metropolitan
Museum, New York.)

The typography

Why India paper cannot be

used

THE PAPER chosen for the new edition of The Century was subjected to the most rigorous tests, including microscopical analysis of fiber composition, chemical analysis, breaking strength, bursting strength, and folding endurance.

The last was considered the most important of all, and a special machine was devised for the purpose of folding a sheet backward and forward until it showed a rupture. Out of twenty-eight samples of paper tested, eleven of the most promising were printed with sample pages of the dictionary and bound into volumes which were subjected to further tests for strength and endurance. The paper finally chosen is made by one of the best known mills in the United States, which has made paper for The Century Magazine for forty years.

Cut under Lace. Italian; Network, 16th century.

The tests for paper

The

presswork "the finest of any large referencebook"

THE PRESSWORK of the new edition is the most perfect possible. Estimates were received from eight of the leading printers of America, and a contract was finally made which provided that "the printers shall make the presswork of this new edition the finest of any large reference-book now in existence, and in keeping with the best traditions of The Century Co." In its rich, black impression, perfect clearness, and even register, The Century is unrivaled.

The best leather for binding that can be found

One of the illustrations under the group Ordnance. 4.7 field gun and carriage.
Weight of explosive shell, 60 pounds. Charge, 6.5 pounds of smokeless powder.
Range, 11,000 yards. Will fire 20 rounds per minute.

THE NEW BINDING is the result of continuous and exhaustive
experiment. In almost all books bound to-day the binding soon
deteriorates, - leather, in a few years, sometimes becomes yellow
dust. Search was made for a leather which should prove as durable
as the famous Spanish leather of the Middle Ages. Authorities in
Europe and America were consulted, and the relative merits of the
skins of seals, kangaroos, calves, sheep, pigs, and goats (the latter is
called "morocco") were scrutinized and tested. As a result both
pigskin and goatskin were chosen-the skins not to be split, no
injurious acids to enter the tanning process, the dyes to be pure and
fast, and the entire treatment to be by methods reproducing as nearly
as possible the old hand-tanning processes.

The specifications for leather used on the new revision were indorsed by the Department of Agriculture, U. S. A., the London Society of Arts, the Sound Leather Committee of the Library Association of London, the British Museum, the Boston Public Library, and other authorities.

"Library buckram" for the cloth books

The unusual safeguards

For the cloth-bound edition a "library
buckram" has been selected, made accord-
ing to specifications laid down by the
United States government and adopted
by the Library Associations of England
and America.

In the binding every known precaution has been taken, all of the sheets being sewn on tapes which are placed between the boards of the covers instead of being merely pasted down on the outside of an unsplit board, as had been the custom hitherto; special guards have been placed on each insert; muslin guards and joints reinforce the first and last sections. No