Excerpt from Winston's Cumulative Loose-Leaf Encyclopedia, Vol. 1 of 10: A Comprehensive Reference Book

We have spoken of some of the distinctive features of this work. Now let us speak of the most distinctive, that which removes it from the ordinary category of such works and puts it in a class by itself. We refer to its cumulative bonded method of adding new matter, a characteristic of such value and importance that we feel called upon to speak of it at some length in the preface. It is a notorious fact that ency clopedias, like men, have the unfortunate habit of growing Old, but are not like men in keeping up with the world's movements. They are not a year on the market before they become incomplete. Something of wide interest and importance has happened that finds no place in their pages.

This is a weakness to which all the ordinary encyclopedias are subject. People lie, but are still recorded in their pages as living; city and town populations change as new censuses are made, but the old figures stare out from the page; the world's history goes on, but its latest details are not to be found in the printed work; the platoon of discoverers make new explorations, such as the north and south poles, for instance, but the facts learned are still stated to be unknown, or not mentioned at all. The same thing is true of the arts, sciences and all the elements of human knowl edge. New facts are learned, but the row of antiquated books to which you refer for a statement of these facts contains no mention of them. Yet, often enough the'new facts are more important than the old. The new truth makes the old truth untrue. The work of reference to which you apply for information about the living present speaks to you only of the past. This is a defect to which all works of reference have hitherto been subject, and one which various methods have been devised to overcome. Hitherto all those methods have practically proved failures from their lack of simplicity, convenience, inexpensiveness, or some other essential factor.

Winston 's cumulative loose-leaf encyclopedia disposes of this difficulty in a simple and highly efficient manner and enables its owner to keep it constantly up-to-date with no inconvenience or trouble. By the use of this patented Invisible Binder and the Cumulative system, it is possible to insert new pages with an easy certainty and lack of effort and without injury to the form, binding or shape of the volumes. The system is so simple and perfect that a child can operate it.

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