LESS THAN TWO WEEKS MORE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 843, 18 March 1903, Page 2

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS MORE.

Often a picture will make plain what a column of words cannot explain. Wherever this is the case, The Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia & Atlas gives the picture. There are in the work more than 8,000 illustrations, drawn and engraved by the men who have made The Century Magazine famous. In the one department of architecture alone there are more illustrations than in any architectural book ever published. Animals, plantcathedrals, musical instruments, ma> cbinery, antique vases, shells, guns, all are profusely illustrated. If these illustrations were gathered together they would fill 500 pages.

" The Century ” contains also definitions and illustrations which explain all the branches of art, including painting, sculpture, etching, en graving, decoration! costume. The best examples of each sort of work are reproduced, and as a mere collection of designs tho Dictionary is invaluable to craftsmen.

As a Dictionary of Natural History ‘The Century ” is made far more valuable. by its copious illustrations, than it would otherwise have been. The Athenaiuji well said that “ the cuts appended to the zoological articles are of the first quality, and the birds, monkeys and snakes prove as attractive to the child as to the savant; while the numerous entomological illustrations, portraying insects in various stages, ought to be of practical use to farmers and gardeners.”

These illustrations are especially valuable also in that they attract children to the book, and when young people once begin discussing descriptions of plants and animals, their interest is apt to be aroused and unconsciously they acquire the habit of going to the fountain-head for information.

The handsome maps in Volume X of “ The Century ” are a distinct feature’ of the work and will prove invaluable alike to students and the general public. The concise, full, accurate and up to date Encyolopadia (Vol. IN.) of 150 000 headings is indispensable to the writer ’and the reader.

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