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THE general usefulness of this work of reference is fully maintained in the third volume. Numerous short articles, instead of long sub-divided articles, make it an encyclopaedia to which reference is quick and easy. The searcher can find the facts he wants with a minimum expenditure of time and trouble. Many of the old articles have been retained in a revised form, but a number of new ones have been added and others rewritten. There are new coloured maps of China, Czechoslovakia, and Denmark, and a number of useful woodcuts and diagrams. The advantage of having a complete but concise encyclopaedia in one alphabet should make this work most useful to student, worker, and teacher. The paper is thin but opaque, and the type is large enough for easy reading.
Chambers's Encyclopædia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge.
New edition. Edited by Dr. David Patrick William Geddie. Vol. 3: Catarrh to Diophantus. Pp. iv + 836. (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, Ltd.; Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincott Co., 1923.) 20s. net.
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Nature 113, 191 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113191c0
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