The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-20

The News Record of an Imp0rtan
Event.


fwx TEws is in receipt OF a great many
inqun. ~ as to the "History OF the rariis-
ment OF Religions" which it's onering us
rcaders. The questioners want to know
I'D n autbentic?v SIS il full recordW
''Is II official?''
These questions are natural. Therc are
other publications, two Of these quite
nre,entious. which claim to be
rivals of the work controlled
by The NEWS. The most important pub
lication that considers itself rival to
The NEWS History sells for %, We believe
or $40 in full sheep. The NEWS History
sells for y in cloth. and t4.OO in sheep
respectively and The NEWS gives Q
months subscription with the book.
The facts are these.
The Parliament of Religions at the
Worlds Fair was most Important occa-
sion in the religious history OF the world.
IL brought together for the first time the
leaders OF every important faith on earth
and il gave opportunity TO them TO record
their principle. What theyt said oners
liberal education in the matter OF beliefs.
A reading of the hundreds OF
addresses will . teach the reader
more about the different religions OF tho
earth than anything short OF life time
of research could afford. Such record
is indispensable to every student, invalu-
able to every book collection.
Recognizing all this, certain enterprising
and perfectly respectable gentlemen or
ganized publishing company for the pur-
pose of publishing record OF this Parlia-
ment with view to its sale by subscription
at ,S5 and upwards. Their plan was Q
meritorious one from the point OF view OF
the scholar and admirable as business
venture, They. would preserve Tor ali
time this invaluable record and they
would make lots of money.
Chicago, however, is a hustling town.
Prominent among its big publishing
houses is the concern which bears the
name of +. II. Neely. They, too, recognized
the money to be made in publishing
q record of the Parliament OF Religions.
1t was business only perhaps, with them.
Being already organized and capital
ized they were first in the
field with their work and instead
of selling it by subscription and
securing their profit by placing a fancy
price on limited circulation, they
put the work on the market for all the
people and at fair price, being
certain that large returns would result in
making bigger total profits. They per-
mitted several newspapers to take the
work. The Chicago Tribune sold thous-
ands ard thousands on the plan which
The News has adopted. The market
was open and long before the five dollar
publication was on the press the $50
volume was in the hands of thousands.
THE NEWS has nothing to say about
any publication claiming to be rival to
the "Parliament of Religions" which IL
offer its readers. 1t can assure
it's readers, however, that its own work IL
fully authorized, absolutely authentic
and to the best Of its belief q more COM
plete and more nearly verbatim record
than the five dollar work. In make up,
binding and wealth of illustrations IL
acknowledges no superior. 1t is q magnih-
cent volume and should be in every libra.
TX 10 be read and handed down to DOS.
terIty.
The price at which it is offered--s2.50 in
cloth and $500 in sheep-places it within
the reach .of every one. The NEWS
would be glad to offer it to its
readers at COST but the publisher will not
permit this and The NEWS is under con-
tract. THE NEWS, however can give
something else to make up for this inabi-
lity to discount the price Of the book and
so months subscription to The NEWS is
offered in lieu of reducing the price
OF the book. The publisher Of the
"Parliament" has no objection to this so
long as the price of the book is
maintained at $3.50, and as The
NEWS is not In the business of selling
books for profit, but only uses them for
the interests OF Its readers, and to make
itself as attractive rs possible, this valu-
able book Is, by this arrangement, placed
in the hands OF It's readers at considerable
advantage TO them.