A LAST OPPORTUNITY.

Evening Star, Issue 11168, 17 February 1900, Page 3

A LAST OPPORTUNITY.

On Tuesday, February' 20. the London ‘ Times ’ will permanently withdraw its ‘ Encyclopedia Bntacmica ’ proposition. The time which brings to an end the opportunity for securing the full sol of this great 'reference library, .on payments of a guinea a month, offered (q residents of Now Zealand, was necessarily, limited, as announced when the pro-, position was first published. ‘The Times’

regrets that il must, close an enterprise which proved to he mutually beneficial in a marked" degree, but with the regret comes a feeling of satisfaction that it has boon able to further (he cause of education bv sending to so many homes tho twenty-live volumes bl what is acknowledged to be tho broadest, and greatest literary work of tho century,J-thc ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica.' f '

From first, to lasi nothing but words of approval and encouragement huvc’i been heard regarding the educational enterprise forwarded by 'The Times,' and Tetters ot commendation from all classes, of society have been Tuesday, February 80, is the last day on tho * Rncyclopstdia Briiaimica ' . an be on the liberal terms embodied in the It is needless to enlarge on thdjfcerits and valuo of the ‘ Bril.annic.a.' 'Die Work is too well Itnown, ii. has been the standard reference library for too many yeaiv *io require any flamboyant praise, Thw#is i.bis to say, however ; * The Times ’ h.»s made * Encyclopjcdia Bril annicu ’ household words, for prior to the day the ‘ Encycloposdia ’ i)to|>osilion was announced the work was to bo found only in tho libraries of the rich classes, colleges, and schools. Tu-day it is in tho homes of many hundreds of the residents of N'cw Zealand, and its perusal there must prove a continual source of pleasure and profit to all members of the household.