AN INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 251, 20 October 1908, Page 4

AN INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS.

MAGUIEIGENT BECEPTIQy OF " TB>' CHIUSTMA&GBAKHK!." PROMPT PUBUC EECXKSOTIJCHf i«M! 3 THE PEEMIEB. PICTORIAL'S TOt BIVAIiED MERITS. The reception accorded to the *(£&&• X': mas Graphic" on its publication thk week was of the most if. v scription, bat it would be false, madety to pretend it was is an excellent judge of a. good tia*s and on the public judgment toe produce* of the "Christmas Graphic" coafideily relied. The first to start fflnstrateiJSiß*s| nalism in the Dominion, and. the first to issue' Christmas annuals, the "Graphic has never been headed in the net; ■■irI even approached by numerous compete tors.for favour which its success broagkt~ I into the field, though their efforts hue in their own way been, fax from uuwor%; It ia not necessary for the "Graphic* therefore, to indulge in. inflated language and profuse panygeric of its agonal, found advisable in less fortunate <partera. The productioa speaks.for itkelt, and is- its- own finest advertisement.. - It would be hard to ■»? irkica «f the- many beautiful pages attracted tke most 'attention and admiratioii v the copies soil like; tie. Wai hot cakes, and even ;CtV.'i.-eift- .' ing clerks at the. counter -ooeiet i» fc» the chorus of congratulation* oa ..*s& other glorious victory," «s one cutatr. v for. a. dozen, or more observed ekajatp. The Tongariro double-page teami : +t*r-: , ouiite with many, but then so •» tke , lovely photographs from natu» of*lfa* Zealand flowers. In fact, it is ujßhi ie, attempt to particularise. ETCryttiinj'H> as rich and beautiful as humaa art tad ingenuity can make it, and the TerdW of the public is emphatic". One thiej is certain—the present rate of atles Tnl soon see the last copy gone, and the3eSt; i; of disappointment which arose lsst.jwtr,. ' when tiie number was sold oat, infi h* ; repeated by thosewho neglect to,onW'j their copies forthwith. , ,- PtJEGHASE A COPY THE AHEBr noon.". .. y ■;: -\-'■'[