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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 August 1901, Page 3

ALL THE BOOKS REPRESENTED IN THE “LIBRARY OF FAMOUS • literature;’ If bought a.t the usual book discount of 3d in the shilling would cost 00, 20 Yols.j £7 12s Od (The Price of the “ Library” in Cloth.) The -‘Library of Famous Literature,” issued by “The Standard,” in London, comprises a thousand masterpieces of the world’s literature. Every nation and every age is represented, English literature with especial fulness. Were all the great works from which these masterpieces have been gathered put together they would aggregate several thousand volumes—more than most men could read in a lifetime. If these books were produced separately, even at a liberal discount, they would cost several hundred pounds. The “Library of Famous Literature” contains the best there is in them, and, under the offer detailed below, it may bo had, in its cheapest form, for L 7 12/-. It represents at once an enormous saving of time and of money. That it is a timely work—a work for which, as it were, the age has been waiting, is evidenced by the paragraphs reprinted below. THE LIBRARY of FAMOUS LITERATURE “WILL MAKE AN IRRESISTIBLE APPEAL.” (Reprinted from “The World.”) The “Library of Famous Literature,” which is about to be issued in twenty volumes, provides a comprehensive collection of the best examples of the work of the great writers of every period and of every nation in the world which has ever produced an enduring literature. It is intended to include, in short, “the best of all that has been written in every age and country since writing began,” and the fact that its editorship is in the hands of Dr Richard Garnett is sufficient guarantee of the ability and literary judgment with which the severely onerous task of selection and compilation has been performed. The work will make an irresistible appeal to all students and lovers of literature. “DR GARNETT’S NAME A GUARANTEE.” (Reprinted from “The Speaker.”) The new “Library of Famous Literature,” of whose excellence the name of Dr Garnett as editor-in-chief is a guarantee, claims to give the very best in the literature of thirty centuries. The association with Dr Garnett of a German and an American as assistant-editors is a guarantee that the area of selection is tolerably wide. The work ought to prove a really valuable contribution to the literary education of the British public. It is easy to sneer at selections, and at the “best hundred books,” and so forth, from the point of view of the serious student whose tastes are specific, and to say that books of this kind are principally of use as furniture and wall decoration; and probably many of the great public who read will not trouble the masterpieces of literature much. 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