A READY RESPONSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 17, 22 January 1900, Page 3

A READY RESPONSE.

]t is oniy iyr-.c-: i;i iifotimo that one lm:j nit wj-pw'itmty like that set fotth iu uu ii.ivvrUs.jijjii.jt oi' I.]tg Loudon Tin* on -i of tiiis Ss«uc. Ilesidciii i of Zealand will no doubt tfi'vc advantage of the opportunity with a] a ci ily. Not many have ever stopped to cod- • cider that i lie Jinr-ifclopthdia Britatmica [represents an immense economy, both , ; ->f effort :ivuluioiieyas well. It. would. Lc impossible to malurfip a li t of any thousand books which would contain all the information ivhich is to be found in the sixteen thousand articles which the Encjclopmlm Britannica contains. Yet such a thousand volumes, treating of these subjects, could not be purchased for less than £2OO, if, indeed, they did not count up two or three times this sum. And such a library would still be inadequate and incomplete. The Encyclopasdia Britannica is now to be had for less than half price and is not merely complete, but exhaustive. Again, aside from the time the mere choice of si) h a thousand volumes would consume, there is the further item of the uncounted years it would take to read I t.hcm. I 1" is hero that the ' wyclopt.tdia j JSrillainiica comes as asupiemeserv'ce. ; J.ts separate articles tell tlso whole; ! story of each topic—interestingly, often i i brdliantiy—iu a space that may be! 1 covered in an hours reading. For the | busy man and woman seeking a broader j culture and a larger fund of informa-' jtion, no other work in the world has , such value. Now that the Encydo\paidia Britannica is offered at a disj count of more than 50 per cent, from •, tho publishers' former price (and upon lnonthly payments where desired), there i.s no longer any reason why this splendid possession should not find its i wery li■•"■aeliold where books a 1: . t'.< v influence form an integral p. I of the fasnily life.