The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-23
POPULAR BOOKS Ar SMALL COST.
Science, Poetry, Fiction and the Best
Standard Literature Of the World
Almost Given Away.

The first lot of the immense quantity
of books purchased by The TRIBUNE
has arrived. but the grsat bulk Of them
will be here tomorrow. This display
of stanaar, works offered for the bens-
lit OF THE TRIBUNE readers will place
the best standard books within ther each
OF all, Book trusts are powerlesS be-
fore our efforts to place good reading
in the hands Of persons OF moderate
means
We have three series to offar our
readers. the Oxford series, the Rugby
series and tho Columbus series The
Oxford series is one OF tho most com.
plete lines of standard authocs pab-
lished This list alone contains 275
titles. The regular prics is 80 cents
each. but The TRIBUNE offers them for
20 cents. Every book is printed on fine
paper from good type, tastefully and
substantially bound and has silk rib
bon marker. Among these books are
the Abbot" by Walter Scott;
Airy. Fairy Lillian, by the Duchess; (;
Aurora Floyd" by Miss Braddon;
"Barnaby Rudge." oy Charles Dick
ems; Baron Munchsusen,' "Chlds
History of England" by Dickens;
Daniel Dsronda,' by George Eliot;
Denis Duval." by Thacksray; Dukes
Secret" by Bertha Clay; "E ist Lynne"
by Mrs. Henry Wool; Eugene Aram,"
by Lord Lytton; Foul Play" by
Charles Reader; "Gulliver's Travels"
by Dean Swift; Handy Andy" by
Samuel Lover; Jane Eyre" by Char
lotte Bronte; John Halifax" by Miss
Mulock; Last Of tho Mohicans," by
Cooper: Master Passim." by Florence
Msrvyat; The MoonstOne," by Wilkie
Collins "The Young Duke" by Lord
Beaconstield; Tom Browns School
Days" by Thomas Hughes, and scores
Of other standard works.
The Rugby" series embraces \ list
of 100 titles and contains the best
works which have been written for
boys and girls The regular price is IS
cent?, but THE TRIBUNE offers them at
80 cents. These works include books
by Jacob Abbott. James Grant, Mary
A. Denison, Captain Msyne Reid, Mrs
Edgeworth, Sir Samuel B ,ker, Henry
CollingwOod, w. H. G. Kingston, Henry
Morton, G. NJ. Younge, William and
Robert Chambers and other famous
authors A complete set of Dickens
novels. fifteen volumes, in a box. hand
somely bound aud containing over 800
illustrations. usually sold at ST. 80, can
be obtained at THE TRIBUNE Office for
$500. "Thackeray'S" novels, (ten
volumes in box. in elegant binding
and with beautiful illustrations by
Cruikshank. which usually coat $40,
can bS got at The TRIgpNE Office for
$4 90
The Columbus" series contains
standard works, bound in strong cloth,
printed on good paper and in clear typo.
Dickens Novsls"(ten volumes In box,
comprising 6. 500 pages, with 9l2 illus
trations. in handsome cloth binding
with gilt back, can be purchased at
The TRIBUNE Office for $2.75 "Irving's
Complete Works" in ten volumes, can
be purchased of US for 81 75
The catalogue with price Of each
book in each series will be published
in tomorrows TRIBUNE, and then the
doors will be oponed and bargains may
be obtained without parallel in oil re-
corded offers. The books are offered
for less than the paper and binding
cost the publishers Get your scissors
ready to cut the coupons Jew in mum
bsr) and your small change to buy tbs
books OF your choice