Identifier: surveyoctmar1918surv (find matches)
Title: The Survey October 1917-March 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
t in what you say, my friend, the newly married one of us admitted, after the waiter had softly reminded us that we were not the only ones in the room. We dont criticize you or any of the others for asking more money for the books you are publishing. We know you are entitled to it. We know that you are simply business men—not Profiteers. We, too, have been thinking about a higher price, but we cannot forget that the Modern Library is a unique institution. When we started it, we announced that we did not expect to get rich and that that was not primarily our ambition. So we have decided to stick to the old price—sixty cents per volume, postage 6c extra—and we are going to add new titles regularly, with the best introductions we can buy. All the additional support we will ask of our friends is to buy four volumes where they used to buy two, and twenty instead of only ten. We got our hats (paying for them as usual) and waited a moment for our friend to join us, but he could only gasp feebly,
Text Appearing After Image:
we PA ip For oor +t<\r.s boys. as he lit his fifth fifty-cent cigar, Don't wait for me, The shock is too great—or may be you're only joking. We are not—here's the list of titles now included in the Modern Library. They are all handbound, in limp croft leather, and sell at all stores for sixty cents per volume, 6c. extra by mail. Check the titles you want. 1 Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray 2 Strindberg Married 3 Kipling Soldiers Three 4 Stevenson Treasure Island 5 H. G. Wells The War in the Air 6 Henrik Ibsen, Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People 7 Anatole France 8 De Maupassant 9 Nietzsche 10 Dostoyevsky 11 Maeterlinck 12 Schopenhauer 13 Samuel Butler 14 George Meredith 15 Bernard Shaw 16 Geo. Moore 17 Thos. Hardy 18 Thos. Seltzer 19 Oscar Wilde 20 Nietzsche 21 Turgenev 22 Anatole France 23 Swinburne 25 Wm. Dean Howells 26 W. S. Gilbert 27 H. G. Wells 28 Gustave Flaubert 30 James Stevens 31 Anton Chekhov 32 Arthur Schnitzler 33 Sudermann 34 Lord Dunsany 35 G. K. Chesterton The

Note About Images