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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7338, 26 February 1902, Page 4

MliaMMMlMliaMiaillllMMiiaM^ M^ "~ " ■ i ( <2^^4l|lS^ THE COMPLETE TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES, S^^^*^s^!l_ DELIVERED ALL AT ONE TIME, FREE OF CARRIAGE CHARGES AT UPON PAYMENT OF ONLY FIVE SHILLINGS, TO BE FOLLOWED BY MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF | TWELVE SHILLINGS EACH. -It i. sometimes the business of • news- beyond its primary functions of reporting, set, had been sold in the United Kingdom 40,000 in all, as against 400,000 in the public who live in New Zealand, will wel- include the free delivery of the ?rfm paper to originate news ; topursue for itself a/d commenting. | previous to 1898. The disparity was cal- Unite d States. .It was a great achievement come an opportunity to obtain the Ency- in Wellington, *here stock is earned We to mak^^for only a short ta» an inv^tion insteak J rating its The announcement, of which the reader %£%%s, to accomplish in two years ; more than had clo^dia if it could be sold upon stdl more J^^^^«£^ contract^ tat I limit has been placed energy to the routine of reporting facts will have already gathered the gist from the g e B^^ Sme B ? f^e S been done in the previous twenty, and "The convenient terms of payment. We on our bv " The Times » upon the number of sets which pwsent themselves already made. A headlines upon this page, is the fruit- of £Jn %£ ted standard work o f reference Times" unquestionably rendered a service paTt . have now made an arrangement with ary induc^ nt ™ ' the e^ erc^ CI * ffer/ „p i t fi journal may, for example, refuse to content s^%^^^££n^ must furn| an .approbate measure .of to the country But it seemed to us that W " &**?g^ %^^^^£^££. therefore be our invariable itself with the official reports of the con- - J™ C^ fc % *£^£JSSJg which a British P^ bllc h &™- more remained to be done. moS advantageous to them than hLe it^will be a great pleasure to all to feel that rule of action, and those who fail promptly Btituted authorities, and prefer to seek for -journal has a peculiar right, and almost a Taking this point of view, "The Times," An initial payment of. one guinea, and ever before been offered. the daily saving of a sixpenny-bit will en- to secure ttieir copies or me itself fresh material on which to base an in- peculiar duty, to assume. Since the ninth in 1898, made an effort to bring the " Ency- subsequent monthly payments of on« ' <{ „ able every householder in the ;land to placß have themselves on yto tnank for the dependent judgment. This sort of activity Ind latest edition of the "Encyclopedia clopajdia Britannica » into more general use guinea each, seem formidable to a clerk, a We will supply The Times reprint of the « Ency clop»dia Britannica" among his loss of an opportunity if they fail to avail on the partof a newspaper too often shows Britanni-ca" was completed, over 400,000 by issuing a reprint of the 25 volumes at sma ll tradesman, or a mechanic. The gene- the Encyclopaedia .Britannica tor a - hrst pos^ essions themselves of it. itself in the form of mere sensationalism, copies of the work have been sold in Amer- half the publishers' price, and offering it ra l public were still excluded from the use Payment °f°^ « Jf^ TO a °uaw! S There is need however not only" of this The Enquiry Form which is printed on but the history of ; British Vurnalism shows ica, so that our national work of reference for monthly payments of one guinea, each. o f a book which especially meets he needs m onthly payments of^^twelve «^P «J» this page should therefore -be sent to-day, that without loss either of dignity or of has evidently played a great part in popu- In the course of 1898 and 1899, " The of the ma n who has no general library, to be mad* rfta^delivery <A^he comple « ™**'*££ lltwln .Tie only sure way to secure this great barreliability, and with great advantage to its larising the best sort of reading among the Times » sold oyer 30,000 copies of this re- " The Daily Mail; believes that this broader wor s', h t ?;ggT'l f IU £ n / te 2 The dX Mail "and « The Times »is re- gain is to act iiow. : : "; *:y readers, a newspaper may occasionally go Americans. Meantime, less than. 10,000 print. This brought the Britisn sale to public, and especially those of this broader one-half the publishers ptice. Inese terms The Daily Man ana me xunes ga . , . . y: _ .^

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The names of some of the more distm- || I W^^r: jfaSi& &£J\. %^L !^^^!__^^^^____i f ll*fH Uulhw I' Wi® LWVhbbl ililm montll - I fc w as a wretched plan as applied not only over the British Isles, but also guished contributors. I^§£__l W^ll f^^ _^5% 225 I I^IKkSI l\\\\ II tf_S lill^H 111 (I to any sort of book, and as applied to an over the world. It draws its supplies from * * ■•■ the boo -s- f/lf^i_S "^Dt VJ_ 25!52^^_l^__a s^-_C 'II 1 iif_S l\!ffiSS II 'fll II m\\ HI who uses the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " "Men of science- theologians, philcso--10 An order form giving details oi prices, |m§_!S W^' **»__: ' 8 I ®WA IH I ifR lib MI H netds to turn from one article to another. phers, Oriental schokrs, geographers, artbindmgs, terms of payment and book cases. li^^S WS V °^. llflH WWM j |NK IP 1 1 1 As he reads the life of one great man in ? s ts, those engaged in practkalpursuits--11. 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