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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 191, 24 August 1901, Page 3

CAUSE AND EFFECT Why 19,000 people in Great Britain purchased the LIBRARY of FAMOUS LITERATURE. THE CAUSE. There are not a few persons of pedantic mind who would class the selection of literary masterpieces with T* ttv « the literature of scraps and snippet s. But this is the P KOiVI r l leer of the man grown out of touch with his fellows. > lb is only those whose lives are given over to books and to reading who have either the time to go through tbe "complete works " of the masters, or the training rcquisite to know what is good and reject the bad. The average New Zealander, the man of society, the Mny man pt business, or the man of affairs, will either J come to a knowledge of the best through the medium of the anthology, or never arrive at all. The busy, pre-occupied men and women of to-day have riot the leisure to read all that Wordsworth wrote, or Shelley suDg, or the voluminous writings of Browning and i.l_ A Scott, of Oarlyle and George Meredith, to name only a 1116 few. If we sttay beyond the fields of English literature into those of France, Germany, Scandinavia, or Busiia, or into the claesic literatures of the pat>t, the range of choice, the accumulation from which, selection must be made, becomes almost boundless. Certainly, it is beyondthe powers of any one man, life-long student though he may be. vt | The simplest survey, therefore, suffices lo reveal the yOJIIfIIBS anthology, not as a convenient expedient for busy people, but as a necessity for even the wisest; and most widely read. There will bo few, wo believe, to doubt the value of such admirable collections as those of Professor Palgwve, of . Hnmphry Ward, of Mr. Hetiley, of Mr, Ling, if Mrs. Meyoel, of Mr. Lucas, |h |J Ih not ta speak of oth> i s who doFerva mention. Yet all * of them are confin«<l to English literature wholly. A gathering of garlands, which should embrace all literatures, all racer, and all times', has first, we think, been attempted in the vast, work issued in London by The Standard last year under the editoi-ship of Dr. Richard Garnett, C.8., complete in twenty handsome volumes of five hundred pages each. Applicants May Secure the Complete 20 lum Delivered RE in Wellington

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