Judge — April 8, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Passing Sentences ‘OR one dollar and thirty-five cents may be acquired an evening fy of thrills. Sax Rohmer, author of “The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchy? has appeared with a new book, featuring that astute and consciencees Celestial (“The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu”; Robert M. McBride & Co} It is an echo of the first book, with exposition of several new and ingeniog Chinese tortures, and any number of hairbreadthy ’scapes. The Doce did not dic in his earlier chronicle; but he is apparently completely doe away with in this. However, as the body was not found, it is probable thy . | th e m sterl- the Doctor is gifted with a Sherlock Holmes immortality. Pet characte dic hard. @ O D F If James Oliver Curwood set out to write a thriller when he started @ us r. u- he Hunted Woman” (Doubleday, Page & Co.; net $1.25) he succeeded His hero and heroine leap lightly from one adventure into another, ead ? 1 more exciting than the last. The book is exceeding’ “ateresting, though ancnu 1S bit obvious. ° Py “Practical Stage-Directing for Amateurs,” by Emerson Taylor (F. P . O | d fr 1 e n d S Dutton & Co.; net $1.00) is a treatise on the difficulties encountered by the unprofessional stage-director. To all who have ever gone through the || agony of staging a play for the local Dramatic Club, this book is recon. mended. ° will be glad i - “Why We Punctuate,” by William Livingston Klein (The Lancet Pub lishing Co., Minneapolis; net, $1.25) is a neat and thorough textbook on th t O e a r t a t less-known uses of much-abused marks of punctuation. An added interet is lent by the fact that the book goes into the why of the matter while it lys down rules. Sax Rohmer is ~—— Among the numerous methods of separating the innocent bystander . . pre sen tl n g h 1m from his money as painlessly as possible, for some object more or less worthy the device of the chain-letter is perhaps as well-known as any. To illustra the possibilities of this scheme, the result of a little flight into the reals . . inanew series of higher mathematics is here appended. The figures speak for themselves < Dear George:— f A d I have your letter of March 20, about old Tom Traggles and his por ofr stories. n old mother and his poor old arm. Iam sending Tom the dime. I notice your letter was No. 18 and that the chain is to continue untl | | No. 50 is reached. Having, strange to relate, a few leisure moments froz those who do not the press of my business this morning, I idly began to speculate as to bot much money old Tom would get if every person to whom a letter was seat . scrupulously complied with the requirements. I languidly reflected that now nim can be letter No. 1 five copies would be sent. The fact that twenty-five would te sent on No. 2 and one hundred and twenty-five on No. 3 did not arouse m . : | from my lethargy, but my eyebrows lifted a trifle at the reflection that Ne introduced in the 4 would call for six hundred and twenty-five letters and my pulse quickeoe! on noting that three thousand one hundred and twenty-five would go @ No. 5. reached fora large pad when I saw that No. 6 would b i . . April 8th issue of tion of fiftecen thousand six hundred and twenty-five, and my face begs | | to get flushed when I learned that No. 7 would go to the bat for a totald seventy-cight_ thousand one hundre nd twenty-five. Passing No. 1, the modest figure of nine million seven hundred and sixty-fiv | six hundred and twenty-five was attaine No. 14 we struck the 5X copy billion mark, the exact figure being one billion one hundred and twenty a lion seven hundred and three thousand one hundred and twenty e | 9, | At this point I registered a vow to see the thing through to a finish eve O e I S if it killed me, and with the help of some mathematical sh cI five nts worth of paper I finally ascertained that letter N THE NATIONAL WEEKLY acirculation of two quintillion eight hundred and thirty-six quatrilion 7, p one trillion six hundred and thirteen billion seven hundred ands 416 West 13th Street, New York City nine million five hundred one thousand two hundred and twet! five, which, with the previous issues would make a grand total of 349% 309.9 letters, thus giving old Tom a modest competes® for his declining ightly in excess of a thousand million billion dollas I trust that in the happy days to come poor old Tom will not forget # kindness in sending him a dime each. Faithfully yours, ARTHUR comicbooks.com