_Encyclopaedias_ (Vol. viii., p. 385.).--Surely there must be many persons
who sympathise with ENCYCLOPAEDICUS in wishing to have a work _not_
encumbered and swollen by the heavy and bulky articles to which he refers:
perhaps there may be as many as would make it worth the while of some
publisher to furnish one. Of course copyright, and all sorts of rights,
must be respected but that being done, there would be little else to do
than to cut out and wheel away the heavy articles from a copy of any
encyclopaedia, and put the rest into the hands of a printer. The residuum
(which is what we want) would probably be to a considerable extent the
same. When necessary additions had been made, the work would still be of
moderate size and price.