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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 11

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS,

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS, LTD. BOOKS FOE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THAT BOOKS ARE THE BEST AND MOST USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Is a statement that very few dissent from, as it is such mi obvious fact. Everybody without .exception reads, and hooks are- treasures Hint we carry with us through onr lives. . What moro pleasant way of passing an idle hour can bo spent ttian to get lost in an exciting novel, or to delve into some gem of poetic thought and discover its beauties? Wβ could fill this column enumerating only some of tho joys of reading, but limit of space forbids.: Our stock of all classes of literature is onornious and the variety grcnler than ever before. A bare list of titles is not much help to the buyer, and bur customers find it best to ask ns to make ;t selection for them. Wo guarantee to give satisfaction by this mother! as we have experts who?o business it is to know all about the books. For instance,-suppose you wish to give a present to si person who is fond of reading books on travel you have only to write us n.s follows:— "Please send'me n goad recent book of travel at 10.=. fid-" (m whnlcvpr price is wanted), and wo will do the rest to your satisfaction. Or it may be yon would like some of the best recent novels sent to a friend. Tho titles tell you nothing. This is whom we conic in. It is our business to know which are tho best novels. Wo an* not attomptini; this week in the. small space at our disposal to give any list of books, but the following mar suggest lo purchasers sonic class of literature from which they "can make selections of books that will be puitable and acceptable presents -to friends:— Biography, Travel, Poetry. Illustrated Ai-tra'ooK- Essny- mid fl(<llr<i.l ...Hw,Music. History. AVnr' Books, Dninly Booklets in Atf Oovpr? or neat Bindings, Children's Picture Books, I'ov Bo""rs. A "nil"' W'mukx. Tljlvlpi:, Prayer Books. En?'ish Novels. American Novels, f'lioa" Reprints of Novel?. Post your order Tn-dny so lji.it you Will iwoivn ;i ill limn for rl. v i = |~, 118 . WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS, LTD.. ■Wellington. lToi,ri«Y-MAkWs~ '■ ' 1 SPECIAL POLICIES for tlirep inonih> Insui'iiiß IVrPom on Holidays, issued for a PREMIUM OF TEN SHILLINGS, securing X't )>;•;■ week, or a capital sum in of death. NOKTIt BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE-CO., Wellington, Accident Department, 31 Johnston Street,