SHORTER NOTICES
Everyman's Encyclopaedia. Third Edition, edited by Athelstan
WITH the appearance of the two final volumes of Everyman's Encyclopaedia, Messrs. Dent have completed a thorough revision of this excellent work of reference which was first published in 1913-14 and went through its second edition in 1931-33. For any- one to whom the larger encyclopaedias are not always readily accessible, these twelve small volumes, containing nine million words and 2,500 illustrations, will be a more than adequate substitute. There is a very wide range of information. The political history, tested under such entries as " Churchill " and "Hitler," has been well brought up to date ; and it is satisfactory (for example) to find adequate biographies of two such contrasting and comparatively little-known personalities as Harold Child of The Times and the Scottish artist James Pryde (treatment of this kind suggesting dis- cernment as well as omniscience). Some misprints in the previous edition have been corrected, including one • which deserves a vale- dictory tear—the statement that the species of Dinosaurs knciwn as Sauropoda "include some of the largest animals that have never existed."
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