INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 September 1901, Page 4

INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM.

The “Library of Famous Literature,’’ particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns to-day; is being issued on the same plan of monthly payments that proved so successful with the issue of the Eucyclopoedia Britannica by The Times. The offer presents an opportunity to secure, for a short time only, and upon the preliminary payment of ten shillings, the complete set of 20 large volumes. These volumes contain 10,000 royal octave pages, and make a collection, unparalled in extent, of the greater literature of the world, from the dawn of letters, through ancient and mediaeval times, to the work of living authors like Tolstoi, Mommsen, Hardy, Herbert Spencer, and Mark Twain. It includes over 800 of the finest poems, over 400 of the best stories, together with the best of travel and adventure, philosopy and science, art, wit and humour, religious meditation, criticism, and miscellaneous essays from the literature of the world. It has been edited by Dr Richard Garnett, C. 8., late of the British Museum, one of the foremost of English scholars, and who has had the assistance of many qualified foreign writers and professors. Other notable features of the Library are the many illustrations and coloured plates, which have been gathered from rare sources, and compromise some of the most exquisite specimens of the antique art of book illumination. It need only be added that the present opportunity should be missed of obtaining this great collection at a considerably reduced price. It will remain open for but a short time.