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In the Driftway
October 30, 1929 issue

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That ancient and estimable work, the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," is before us again. It has already been reviewed in "The Nation," but the Drifter has a few private remarks to make concerning this fourteenth edition. The "Britannica," as everybody either knows or ought to know, is an English institution. When the Drifter received that invitation the bottom dropped out of his reverence for and his belief in the "Britannica." He couldn't see why an encyclopedia should want an article on the subject upon which he was asked to write, nor what claims he had to be regarded as an authority on the topic.

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ENGLISH; ENCYCLOPAEDIA Britannica Inc.; NATION (Periodical); INSTITUTION libraries; SPECIAL libraries; GREAT Britain
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