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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. It promotes "The Library of Universal History," a 10-volume encyclopedic set by historian Israel Smith Clare, marketed as "university training at home." The left side features classical artwork—a silhouetted figure surrounded by historical imagery (tigers, classical elements)—meant to evoke the grandeur of civilization and history itself. This visual accompanies promotional text emphasizing the work's comprehensiveness: covering "the whole world for 6000 years." The advertisement emphasizes value ("Publisher's Price Cut in Half") and includes subscription details. The smaller text references bonus volumes like "Nicholson's Ancient Life History of the Earth." No political satire is evident. This is straightforward commercial content typical of early 20th-century Judge magazine's back pages.

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MPERIAL Rome, arrogant in world dominion, rich with the spoil of conquest, splendid in her achievements in arts and letters: Degenerate Rome, sating her blood lust in the mangled bodies of the early Chris. tians torn by wild beasts in the Arena, monstrous in her vices, over. whelmed by the barbarian hordes that like an avalanche swept over her from the vast forests of antiquity: The rise and the wreck of powerful empires whose stories read like chapters from an Oriental tale—all the romance, the thrill, the glory, the shame that attaches to the deeds of man | in every age since civilization began is found in the ten fascinating volumes } ' The Library of Universal History | The Story Told in a New Way of man and everything man has done from the earliest recorded time to the | present day, is the unique achievement of the author of this remarkable work, the well known historian, Israel Smith Clare. But this is not a one man history. After the fashion of an encyclopaedia it has enlisted the | services of experts who are particularly familiar with some one of the many | developments in the life of the human race in the wide range of themes which | the 10 volumes embrace. All of these individual contributions have been | woven into a continuous, absorbing recital from which you will learn how } man lived in every age, what he thought about, his manners and customs, how he waged war and cultivated arts of peace. And there is no fact in any other history not found in these magnificent volumes—but told in a more | interesting way. Remember, this is a history of THE WHOLE WORLD FOR 6000 YEARS, not a history of merely a part or a period as given by | Macaulay, Gibbon, and other historians. i A University Training at Home Maps and Charts ‘The purpose of the modern University is to lay the foundation of wisdom through an acquaintance feature. They show us the work! accontingtothe With the deeds and writings of men in past ages. It is precisely this encounter with the mental ‘and historians: s at states of other generations which is given by THE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY : where you meet the sages and philosophers of Greece and Rome, and the Great Warriors, States. | Poni big te penton coger f its a Europes ‘| men, Historians, Scientists, Pocts of every age and race. “History,” said Lord Bacon, “makes | distribu > pre’ Rm “man wise.” History sifts the wheat of Truth from the Chaff of Falschood. Only by knowing | the Truth as revealed by History can man strike off the shackles of Ignorance, Supe a Captions and Topical Fear. Spend only a few minutes a day with these wonderful volumes and acquire the knowledge, umes the intellectual poise, the breadth of view of the unicersity-bred man. i , ’ ; Publisher’s Price Cut _ Each Volume r F a , ais ‘4 alf 9:3x6)4x2 ne a Ni in H inches 5 z 5 Brings you the entire 12 volumes, including the be: fully printed volumes of Nicholson's Ancient. Life History 5086 Pages of the Earth and Proctor's Other Worlds than Ours—a grand cycle of History embracing almost every su 326 Full-Page | that has engaged the mind of man. Illustrations “ - z - . Don't miss this opportunity! Think of having prac F, F L : x | tically the equivalent of @ University Course ts year | Paiati amous ya I own home, You will never get a chance like this again. ‘aintings | | SEXD TODAY and rake sare of sevuring your choice of the ‘0 sty! of binding of E 4 72 Maps and | if IVERSAL HISTORY. “We have only a few ss | t a ‘ to offer at this sweeping reduction in price Roxburghe Finished Cloth and rich Three-<ia Leather, the minimum payment on the latter bein per month. THESE TWO WONDERFUL BOOKS GIVEN NOW | NICHOLSON’S ANCIENT LIFE HISTORY of the EARTH omer. Prof. Richard Proctor, in this famous book, discusses this | fascinating subject in the light of the marvelous discoveries Th of the earth before man. and the history of the living jehich have resulted from recent scientific research, discoveries on the globe be man wascreated — which give Astronomy a new interest when associated with the the huge beasts and binds and reotiles. A prelude to subject of life in other worlds, 308 Pages; Illustratic the study of the life of man him of Color; Charts, Plans and Maps. the earth on which we live. 42 Glossary and Pull Index. Both volumes uniform in style and size. Richly bound Occupsiton PROCTOR’S OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS ctoth, gold decorated backs; printed in large clear type. | Revised Edition these two intensely interesting volumes by ordering your st > Are they the ahodes of of Universal History foday. Don't wait until after the s ible? The noted astron- supply is exhausted and be disanpointed. Adidrees 7 worlds th: igher type. as comicbooks.