Beginning of the End.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 303, 24 March 1903, Page 2

Beginning of the End.

4 few short weeks ago The Times pni&shed an announcement in these coUflins that it had caused to be prepa||n a limited number of sets of The Dictionary and Cyclopaedia ana Atlas in an especially handsome form and bindings, and that it could offer such «e{4 while they tasted on terms naoxc favourable tbao was erer possible before. Those terms were so favourable, and at the same time the books were so handsome, that the sets have been eagerly taken by subscribers in the colony. The Times' therefore, is now compelled toaonounce that this special offer will be withdrawn next Saturday. AH intending subscribers should, therefore, immediately upon reading this notice, send in their orders, or otherwise The Times wiil later be compelled to return them unfilled. - It is now simply a question of now or never.

"Th« Century" as a referenc* book is all things to ail men. No. other book makes such a universal appeal* It is full of interesting information, of bcaatifal tltaatratioas, of happy quotatwatr. It trill tell jroa jJEKH&f^cTti iua. shorter time on a greater variety Of subjects and *in a AcYe interesting fashion than any other boqk: io the world. ..,. - * " / To-day you cap bu*'««Th* Century at a bargain. It is a book yoa want, a book without which even a small library .is not compiete. If you 4t will still be a book you want, a' book •vithout which your libr»y*-be it small or iarge—is got complete,; bet it will no longer be a book"wbich you can procure upon ouch advantageous terms. ■

Wh?o we first advertised oar offer of the "Encyclopaedia BritaanicaV We warnei our friends that wowerebouod by oar contract witk 'Messrs A. aod 0. Black, the publishers, to sell no more then the certain number of copies at the minimum price. Yet two-tairds of all those who have purchased' The Times Reprint of the Encyclopaedia Britannica waited until the prices had been increased.

Our sale of "The Centnry" is today id precisely the same position./ We offer the newest edition (cobyright 1902) of that admirable work'nta reduction of over 40 per cent from the publishers' price* Ton can obtain ittodaj at that bargain-prica, or you can wait, as 22,000 purebasara of the ''Encyclopaedia Britaaoica" waited until a higher price mast be paid for the sums book. Which wilt you do.