Who can afford to be without this book, which will pay for itself twice over every week of the year?
"I was picked up, ladies and gents," continued Eliph' Hewlitt, "by a passing ship, and I decided to devote my life to a great work--to circulating this wonderful book in my native land.

I wept when I thought of the millions that had not seen it--millions that were living poor, starved lives because they didn't have a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, and I gave myself to the cause." The minister handed the book back to Eliph' Hewlitt, and cleared his throat.
"It seems to be all you claim for it," he said; "but I fear the landlord of the Kilo House was right.

We are not, many of us, ready for more books at present.

If you return in a year or eight months----" Eliph' Hewlitt smiled, and put his hand gently no the glossy black knee of the minister's best trousers.
"True," he said, "true! Kilo has books.

Kilo knows the civilizing and Christianizing influence of books.