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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 24 August 1901, Page 4

Why great the Library of Fambis'Literature. Tlie Cause THEBE are not a few persons of pedantic mind who would class the selection of liCry masterpieces with' the.literature, of.. S and snippets. to teer- - of tne man grown out of touch with his ; fellows It is only those whose lives are.| glverTover to books and to reading; wh« have either the time to go trough t. •■ complete works » of the ™ff training requisite to know what is good and reject the bad. The average New Zealander, the man of society, th ° man of business, or the man o± affairs will either come to of the best through the medium of the Prompt Appli- gSSffiSsu-i Wordsworth wrote, or Shelley sung, or the voluminous writings of Browning and Soott, "of Carlyle and George Meredith, to name only a few. • If x?e stray beyond the fields of English '■■■■> ••■- . , ■■■-; ' ./ . ' literature into those of France, Germany, ~*<Si4& t -'%XX «« vp' Scandinavia, or Russia, or into the classic Ca»lltS 4 llia.V: SGCUrG" Uteratures of the past, the range of choice, VW " ***«*j wv _ accumulation from, which selection must be. made, becomes almost boundless. Certainly, it is beyond the powers of any one man, life-long student though he may be. The simplest survey, therefore, surhces .- - *+.** ' to reveal the anthology, not as a convenient mi**. fIA«UwI A+A Vfl : expedient for busy people, but as a neces--1 fIH VjOIILTiIOuU G\J S ity for even the wisest and most widely X rea J d There be few, we believe, to doubt the value of such admirable collections as those of Professor Palgrave, of Mrs Humphry Ward, of Mr Henley, of Mr Lang, of Mrs Meynell, of Mr Lucas, not to speak of others who deserve men- ■ _■-«•'..-. ■"■■ : '-f tion. Yet all of them are confined to ""' A **l ■% TT AT*JQkM * English literature wholly. A gathering of VUISt :' tiUIJL VvX CVI garlands, which should embrace all literaj tares, all races, and all times, has first, .-,-#■ we think, been attempted in the vast work : issued in London by "The Standard" last year under the editorship of Dr Richard Garnett, C.8., complete an twenty hand- ■, some volumes of five hundred pages each. T& Cdinflete 20 IFofe delivered Free in Wellingtoaupdn pay-^ meat oi 10s wrtt eisy monthly The Best of Sixty Centuries To gather a thousand of the masterpieces of sixty centuries has ben the aim of this great work. To the making of the work many hands, the best trained, have contributed. The editor-in-chief is Dr Richard Garnett, C.8., and it is doubtful if frott. among living English scholars a more admirable choice could have been made. Not that the field is restricted. There is Professor Dowden, Mr Edmund Gosse, and jMr Henry Jaines, for example, to name only three among many- who might have been chosen for the task. But Professor Dowden and Mr Gosse and Mr James, not to speak of many others, have still contributed to the work in the form of brilliant essays devoted to conspicuous periods or phases of literary achievement. Indeed, not merely the most eminent men of letters in England, but in France, Germany, Italy, and America have likewise contributed. The "Library of Famous Literature" is, in short, world-wide in its p&pfrMts The Effect. When "The Standard" undertook the ■-' • ■•■ - ; :-■ • - - issue of the Library in London it sought • ;:■■* i> ■! ■ rw-z.'A -m •- r _- j_ jjgst mea ns of presenting this remarkable collection of literature to the British public. " The Standard " believed : that the best method was to offer a limited edition at the lowest possible price. In- ./, stead of setting the highest possible price T- ,_J . CJ- rt «1 nVT on * ne rst edition, and afterwards reCuDOXLu Ott Cu llctV* ducing this price as the sale diminished and the work grew stale, it offered an introductory edition at prices and terms which brought the "Library" within the reach of every man or woman in Great fH - ; ' i X"'' ] ' J i'* ;V; iiS ;^: • '"• vr n Britain who really wished to possess it. (jdill SLu TjxIJB JN £l% These prices and terms have now been **" **" w ** v ' ■**•*« extended to New Zealand.. The "Library" is not issued in parts, but is sold only in complete sets, but the entire twenty volumes, sent all at one time, may be had ..■•-■ upon the preliminary payment of ten shilT'tTYI'DiCI- Oflßr»*l ew* ngS ' Furtller payments are in small X XXuUS V/JUXvU UX monthly amounts, so that the purchase of the " Library " actually involves the outlay of bub 5d a day. ' -■ If there are 19,000 people who would aTml-Tr ■ ' subsoribe t0 a total of 380,000 large "royal PUI V lOx JjCUT UIC U™ octavo volumes, and there have been more * "*■ *» X than this , number, there must have been some special inducement why they should subscribe, and, further, some means of •a-J '• - j : 1 , enabling them to subscribe with a fairly laiT*Ff- I.IY—fIATT. accurate idea of what they were doing. XOtlß IIU UCLJT* The special reason which induced the 19,000 and. more subscribers to the LIBRARY OF FAMOUS LITERATURE to send their orders was twofold: first the unique value of the work .offered, and second, the generous terms upon which it could be secured: The work now offered to the New Zealand public is the same, the terms as generous, with the added adJngton 6 as far as WeiA PARSING OPPOKTUNITT, ; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THIS OFFER IS LIMITED BOTH IN TIME AND IN THE NUMBER OF COPIES AVAILABLE. THOSE WHO DELAY SENDING IN SUBSCRIPTIONS OR [ APPLYING FOR INFORMATION MAY MISS THE OPPORTUNITY. FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FORM GIVEN BELOW AND POST IT 'TO-DAY. Callaflie¥.Z. TMes Office or apply for partieuIsLrs to-day.

ONE HUNDRED PAGE PROSPECTUS TREE. To The MANAGER, Publication Department, j 0 The New Zbaland Times, Wellington. I I foa id. Please send me the Free Prospectus and full Particulars of your offer of The Library of Famous Literature. 5igned........ ddress.... A- COMPLETE SET OF BOOKS IS ON VIEW AND ORDERS TAKEN AT Be'-iLiaKKSiO*' "TIMARU HERALD" OFFICE. ax