The record-union., 1897-06-27
THE WORLDS LITERATURE
A Great Standard Work, From World
Famed Ainds-IUS Brilliant and
Original Features.

A Great Standard Work, From World
/ Famed Minds-IIs Brilliant and
Original Features.
Such unstinted commendation has
been given to Charles Dudley Warmers
Library Of the Wards Best Litera-
| ture," that 1T is almost impossible to
say more.
The first and foremost idea of Mr.
| Warner and his associates was to pro-
vide single set of books of such fine
concentrated excellence as would take
the place of whole libraries of scatter
ed volumes, and put their owner in i'm
| mediate possession of the best, the
most instructive and most delightful of
all that has ever been written-the
greatest work of the greatest writer's
of all time.
But the plan was to do all this in
such way as to make the library a
history of literature in new and de-
lightful form-nOt a dry detail of dates
and facts, but a history of literature by
example. And this has been accom-
plished by means of a truly extraordi-
mary series of critical, interpretive and
Introductory essays FROM THE MOST
FAMOUS LIVING MEN OF LET
TIERS.
In the happy solution of this compli-
Gated problem, Mr.. Warner has, with
his new library, performed a service of
unusual felicity and value. He has
given that which is most truly repre-
sentative and most enduring of the
works of the greatest writer's, and in
accompaniment With this he has Sc
| cured a remarkable series of fine and
illuminative monographs, upon each of
| the greater writers and topics treated.
These are not dry, critical essays;
they are vivid, fesh-and- blood studies
! that introduce the reader to the real
man. tell of his strivings and failures,
| and thus make it possible to clearly
and sympathetically understand the
| work he did.
| A department of the library, of deep
and curious interest and value, is de-
| voted to
THE FAMOUS BOOKS OF THE
WORLD.
This department is alone a great and
exhaustive book of reference. Here the
general reader is provided with clear.
vivid glimpse of these master pieces of
literature upon which, in so many in
stances, the fame of the greatest writ
ers now chiefly rests. Very often it
| happens that a single splendid work
has given Immortality to a name that
would have else been long since bIotted
| out
Likewise, within this section are some
$500 graphic descriptions and analyses
| of celebrated novels, dramas and po-
ems with their plots and characters,
and synopses of rare and curious books.
1t is a veritable encyclopedias of liter
ature in itself, and enables one at a mo.
ments notice to refresh ones memory
regarding the plot or characters of
some play or romance once enjoyed, but
now dinly remembered.
This department is an invaluable aid.
enabling one, with the briefest study, to
get at the gist and spirit Of the greater
books without reading them through.
NATIONAL LITERATURES.
The catalogue of contents is not yet
| complete. Besides books and the writ
ers of books, there yet remain the dis
tinctive literatures of different ages and
different countries, which are more the
creation of people or race than of
man, and finally the national hteratures
of the Saxon and the Celt, the Chinese
and Japanese the Pole and Hungarian,
| and many others. All these have been
treated in elaborate signed articles, by
| scholars who are the first authorities in
their several fields.
A DICTIONARY OF AUTHORS.
Then as rounding up and completing
| this monumental work we have such a
Dictionary CT Authors of the World as
has never before been compiled. Be-
tween twelve and fifteen thousand
writers have here been treated, the sa-
| lent facts of their lives given, their
names pronounced and note made of
their chiefest work. There is now no
such dictionary in existence, SO that
| this volume will be absolutely unique.
Finally. every page and topic, every
character and subject. the name of
every author or book, in the entire
work, has been exhaustively indexed
and cross-indexed.
/ Every publisher understands the
value of placing a new work in a few
representative homes of each commu-
nifty. We are, therefore. distributing a
limited number Of Introductory sets Of
the New Library on extremely favora-
Bile terms, while the work is in process
/ of publication, at a special price (nearly
one-half less than the regular price,
| which material concession is made in
| order to quickly introduce and adver-
| tise the work
| Readers should remember that the
| number of sets available for this pur-
pose are now very few, as the leading
magazines have reserved for their read
erS many memberships in the Harper'S
| Weekly Club, through which alone the
work is procurable. Application should
/ be made at once, as the price will soon
! be advanced
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