Abstract
THIS massive volume, twelve inches by nine inches in its superficial dimensions, nine and a half pounds in weight and containing, within the compass of its nineteen hundred and fifty pages, not less than four and a half million words, represents a heroic attempt on the part of editor and publisher to give to Everyman such information on the topics of the age as Everyman is likely to seek—and, moreover, to give him pointers which shall tell him where further detailed and authoritative information may be found.
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Compiled and edited at Columbia University. Clarke F. Ansley, Editor in Chief. Pp. v + 1949. (London, Bombay and Sydney: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 63s. net.
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F., A. The Columbia Encyclopedia. Nature 138, 901–902 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138901a0
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