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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1422, 24 April 1912, Page 3

Iff ZEILIND OPINIONS OF THE NEW ENCTCLOPIEDM BRIIANNia. The sale of tlie new Encyclopaedia Britannica is progressing so fast that the stock available at the Minimum Price m New Zealand must soon be exhausted. If you wish to take advantage of the unique opportunity now offered you must decide promptly It will help you to do so if you know what representative New Zealanders thiuk of this wonderful book, borne of their opinions are printed below, and should be read with attention

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HAMILTON, Esq., F.G.S., Director of the Dominion Museum. The new issue of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as was to be expected from its publication by tho Cambridge University Press, readies high-water mark in the matter or paper, type and illustrations, and perhaps more especially so 111 the new form of binding which has been adopted, winch renders tho volume a friend and companion to be read m the easy chair or at the desk without the discomfort and exertion necessary when using tho large quarto volumes of the former issues. So far as I can judge from the articles which I have read on which 1 am, perhaps, qualified to givo an opinion, the work is thoroughly up-to-date." REV. W. A. EVANS, M.A., Wellington. ' The India paper and the flexible binding make the new Lncyclopaedia Britannica a pleasure to handle, and one may read it with comfort and eniovment. 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