WORTH YOUR WHILE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 846, 21 March 1903, Page 2

WORTH YOUR WHILE.

Is it not worth while to order “ The Century ” to-day, rather than t 0 find yourself in the position of belated “ Encyclopedia Britannica” subscribers, who delayed until they had to pay more money, and lost the use of the Encyclopedia for a certain number of weeks” or months, aa well ? ’

Perhaps you ask what is the bargain now offered to purchasers of “ The Cev tury”?

Tbe figures in the case are very simple Each of the 8000 pages contains six or eight times as much matter as a page of the ordinary octavo book. In otha" words, the eight volumes of the Dictionary alone are equivalent to 200 books of ordinary size. It is a new book, original copyrighted in 1902; so closely up to date that it contains encyclopedic definitions of words that were not in existence six months ago. Books of ordinary size, as recent in character, usually sell at prices ranging from six shillings to twelve or fifteen shillings. Taking the six shilling price a-i a basis for the comparison, The Century Dictionary & Cyclopedia & Atlas represents £6O worth of books; and you can have it, if you make your applica tion at once, for J 614 17s (half Morocco binding) cash payment,' or for a pre liminary payment of ten shillings, to be followed by monthly payments of ten to twenty shillings each, according to binding, and with free and immediate deliverv in Wellington. • •f You should remember this however the time in which you may accept this" offer u nearly ended. Saturday, March is the very last day,