Judge, 1888-08-25 · page 15 of 16
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This page promotes *Judge* magazine's serialized novel "Napoleon Smith" as a summer mystery. The central feature is a humorous guessing game: readers are challenged to identify the author, with famous writers Mark Twain, Henry Guy Carleton, and William Winter proposed as possibilities. The novel itself concerns a Union Army sergeant who is supposedly Napoleon's grandson, sent to France during the Commune to recover hidden treasure. He romances a French woman while entangled with a criminal band led by someone called "Le Noir." Judge—a comic weekly—published this serialized novel and offered a $250 reward (substantial for 1885) to whoever correctly identified its true author. The page includes enthusiastic reviews from various newspapers praising the story's "incident" and romantic intrigue, building suspense around the authorship mystery. This was a marketing strategy: the guessing game drove readership and circulation.
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WHO WROTE ‘Napoleon Smith”? | Did Mark Twain Write It? Did Henry Guy Carleton? Did William Winter ? THE G SOF THE PRESS Napoleon Smith,” by a well-known New: ‘nm exhausted, A second edition will be at Jeon Smith" is one of the peculiar works of the sea: tis having an immense run, ihe first edition of soa already exhausted, l. leon Smith’ is a remarkable sory and a story of re- le interest. We can heart the story as a pright specimen of the marvellous. Bulfimore Telegrans- pleoa Smith” is none of your ordinary mixtures of in, ind tameness. It fairly sparkles with incident, and ¢ is spirited and eventful, We think the author has jebut.—St. Louts Republican, every pag made a successful cit about the resumption We takes up th ind weaves iLinto a story Jupcr’s conundrums, and we are requested the author, Our guess 1 "Sidney Luska,” The Smith of the story is in France to find this money, and a singularly romantic time he has of it, falling in love with a beautiful French girl, and being fallen in love with by a still ho under the name of Le Noir is chief of a band of robbers.-Grand Rapids (AMich.) Sunday Eagle A decidedly interesting novel. It tells the steange story of a sergeant in the American army who. was the grandson of he great emperor in his exile: and to ni cEtain‘faers which indeated the sith which the conguerer of Hurtpe was generally supposed to possess. The adventures of this Scrgcant are told fra graphic manner; and they are certainly marvellous enough to'enerte the interes of the roost indiflererg feader., “The novel havalready struck a popular demand and Ite ies bid fair to exceed that of Me. Rarnes of ‘New York? “Cowell (Mast) Citicen He writes as an attache of the American legation at Paris during the commune, and Mr, Washburne is made to wander i and out of the busy story. If this circumstantially were not part of the pleasant fiction, it, might be easy to determine the identity of the writer, for oleon Smith” stimulates the reader to try for his discovery. He writes asa man of affairs, conversant facts, and with a taste for slightly dramatic narrative, for which “ Napo!zon Smith” furnishes him with a new and ‘original motive. = The narrative of these fortunes makes the book one of the most readable of the sum- mer novels.— Schenectady Star. A fantastic story called * Napoleon Smith” has just been issued by the publishers of the New Vork comic weekly Juver. Its hero ts a supposititious son of the Grst Napoleon, a veteran f the civil war and a great favorite with women. He goes to ard with the aid of a paper left him discovers the hiding avast treasure which “he French emperor had con: cealod, This is used to bring about the resumption of specie | payments in the United States. The tale bears journalistic ¢ar-marks, and the newspaper men of the country are asked to Kuess the name of the author. $250 being offered for the right Kuess, There are traces of A. C. Gunter's style in the work, but on the whole we will hazard the conjecture that the genial proprietor of Juoce. W. J. Arkell, 1s the perpetrator. —Spring- field (Mass) Repubtican TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS! 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