PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 49, 25 February 1903, Page 4

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

J Often a picture will make plain what . i columu of words cannot explain. , Wherever tbie is the case, the Century ; Dictionary and Cyclopedia and Atlas i gives the picture, Thare are in the work more than 8000 illustrations, 1 drawn and engraved by the men who ' have made The Century Magazine famous. In the one department of ( architecture alone there are more illustrations thin in any architectural book ever pub iahed. Animals, plants, cathedrals, musical instruments, machiuery, antiq.ia vas s, shells, guns, all are profusely illustrated. If these illustrations were gathered together thev would fill 500 p iges. " The Ceniury " contains also definitions and illustrations which explain <ll tho Branches of art, including painting, sculpture, etching, engravicg, decoration, cistumo. The best examples of each sore of work are reproduced, and as a mere collection of designs the Dictionary is invaluable to craftsmen. As a Dictionary of Natural History, The Oentury " is made far more valuable, by its copious illustrations, than it would othorwise have been. The At/ieceuum well s lid that " the cuts ap-

• oended to the zoological articles are ol » first quality, and the birds, mon-<-bo - »nakes prove as attractive tc iS! yS " .. * Qe savant; while the child as to .. - : „ al ii ]ugtrati numerous eutomolofc- .; ouß g ' portraying insects in va».. ri n ar g ought to be of practical use to ifand gardeners." These illustrations are especially valua'oh also in that they attract children to the book, and when young people occa begin discussing descripions of plants and animals, their in- " crest is ap; to ba asoueed, and unconsciously tbey acquire the habit of going to the fountain head for information. Tho handsome maps ia Volumn X. of " The Century " are,a dittinct feat- ! ue of ?ho work and will prove invalui'ih alike to s u 'ents and the general I public. The concise, ful l , accurate aßd up-to-date Encyclopedia (Vol. IX.) of 150,000 headings is indisponsible to the writer an ! tho reader.