NEW ZEALAND'S GAIN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue IV, 27 January 1900, Page 176

NEW ZEALAND'S GAIN.

It is to be hoped that “The Times” (London) is realising some small profit in its bold enterprise in connection with its Reprint of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica.” In offering that great library at less than half price, and then delivering the entire set into the subscriber's hands when but one guinea of this small price has been paid, "The Times” shows a confidence in public honesty, as well as in its own methods, that would have been surprising even if the proposition had been brought forth by a less conservative institution than "The Times.” To an outsider, who knows something of the cost of producing so magnificent a work, it hardly seems creditable that the enterprise could result otherwise than in financial loss to its propagators. But whatever may- be the resultant loss or gain to “The Times,” there can be no question as to the beneficent influence this distribution of high-class literature must have upon the future of New Zealand. A set of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica" placed in a home, is sure to become a nucleus for an ever-expand-ing library, for its possessor will intuitively begin to add volume after volume until he has collected a creditable home library.