To Intending Purchasers of our Casket of Jewels. The instalment system as applied to this stupendous work has been so carefully arranged, as to bring the volumes WITHIN REACH OF THE HUMBLEST, if anybody after reading our Preface is humble any longer. To those who are so eccentric as to prefer to pay for the INSIDECOMPLETUAR in the lump, THE PRICE IS A COOL ‘THOU.’ For others, we have a graduated scale drawn up by the BEST ACTUARY that money could procure. Thus, we can take monthly payments as low as a shilling, or goods to that value, excepting perishable articles such as eggs, fish, fruit, and army boots, but the books will naturally be a little more expensive in the long run. This, however, is unimportant and negligible, as in the majority of cases it will be one’s heirs who will have to complete the purchase. For example, let us suppose that the purchaser is about to be twenty-one--and there is no better way in which to ATTAIN ONE’S MAJORITY than in the company of our invaluable INSIDECOMPLETUAR--the subjoined table will show at what age his monthly payments at a shilling will cease, also at eighteenpence and two shillings. Simple division will enable the hesitating purchaser to compute the time required for higher rates of instalment. ----------+--------------------+------------------- Age next | Rate of instalment | Age when payments birthday. | per month. | will cease. ----------+--------------------+------------------- 21 | 1/- | 1120 ----------+--------------------+------------------- 21 | 1/6 | 840 ----------+--------------------+------------------- 21 | 2/- | 610 ----------+--------------------+------------------- But what the purchasers on the hire system cannot TOO CLEARLY UNDERSTAND, is that although the instalments go on, the volumes are DELIVERED AT ONCE. On the morning after the first shilling instalment is received they will COME WITH THE MILK. Nothing can stop them. Your pavement will be blocked by them within twenty-four hours of posting your remittance, unless, of course, the coal-shoot is open. Understand this clearly, we CANNOT TAKE THEM BACK. Once we have got a set off our hands, threats, persuasion, tears, and entreaties are alike powerless to induce us to receive it again. WE WANT YOUR CASH. Secrecy Guaranteed if Required.