Very light but strong, unsplittable, cloth-like surface pleasant to touch, not slippery, brass-bound, neat, with half-yard measure and checker-board. There never will be a better thing for its many, many uses. Must go by express.
Rand-McNally Standard Atlas of the World. The publishers’ price is $4.50. We send it postage paid for $2.50 in new subscriptions.
Edition of 1887, “revised to date including maps.” (We quote from the publishers’ letter. The Atlas is not yet out at the time of writing.)
Large book, 11x14 inches, cloth binding, about 200 pages; about 150 maps, about 30 statistical diagrams, etc., nearly 100 engravings; brief descriptions of regions, countries, cities, governments; our part of the world elaborately mapped and illustrated.
So comprehensive an Atlas can only be made for the money by many thousands, and so only in a country where millions of people are happy enough to want to know the world they live in.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. Price $13; for $17 in new subscriptions. By express at receiver’s cost.