DAILY CHRONICLE 



" One volume, an anthology of verse, is entitled Pure Gold. 

 This surely would be a not improper name for the whole series." 



SUNDAY TIMES 



"Here are volumes which throw open all the treasures of 

 science, philosophy, history, and literature, as they are known 

 to scholars of the present generation, books which are planned 

 to cover the whole range of knowledge, and summarise some 

 particular branch in an easy and simple style that is sure to 

 urge the reader to closer study of the subject. Was I not right 

 in declaring that education is within everyone's reach to-day ? 

 With the * People's Books' in hand there should be nobody 

 of average intelligence unable to secure self-education. His 

 library this library should be his all-sufficing university." 



THE STAR (JOHANNESBURG) 



" Probably this bold undertaking by Messrs. Jack is the first 

 attempt to throw open all the treasures of science, philosophy, 

 history, and literature known to scholars of the present genera- 

 tion. We have selected the series for special mention in our 

 leading rather than in our review columns, because we are con- 

 vinced that it is precisely what is wanted in South Africa and 

 other British Colonies, whose peoples are profoundly interested 

 in the new knowledge, but whose chances of obtaining accurate 

 information on the subject are few and far between," 



THE EXPOSITORY TIMES 



"The most amazing of all the issues of cheap books which 

 have astonished our day and generation." 



NOTES AND QUERIES 



" They are not only well * up-to-date, 7 and the work of com- 

 petent authors, but are clearly printed on sufficiently good 

 paper and quite prettily bound." 



MR. WILL CROOKS, M.P. 



"The simple, homely language in dealing with a scientific 

 subject is such a rarity that at first sight one took to reading 

 without effort." 



