Judge — December 30, 1916 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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TSE TEE EEE TEPER a | Who Was He-this lonely figure standing on the rampart of a castle on an island off | }) the coast of France who personifies one of the greatest mysteries, one of the most inexplicable crimes of history? Why after over two hundred years does he still excite such intense interest and retain so strong a hold on the imagination? Why does he always arouse a feeling of terror that will not down? | What was his past? Ws it the dissolute life of the courtier? Was it the intrigues of the diplomat? Did some fair one within the hallowed circle of royalty love not wisely but too well? Read the story of the “Man in the Iron Mask,” giving facts hither- to unknown, by that great weaver of word pictures, the irresistible ALEXANDRE DUMAS, in his 'The Celebrated Crimes of History Never Before Translated The millions of English readers and admirers of the works of Alexandre Dumas will hail with keen delight this, the first, and absolutely the only, complete and unexpuryated translation of Dumas’ LES CRIMES C BRES, now for the first time available at a price within the reach of all readers. Printed from the same plates as the Edition sold by the Publisher at $125.00 a set, which was eagerly snapped up by wealthy connoisseurs, the small edition it is our privilege to offer our patrons has all the unusual features so much appreciated by lovers of books as works of ‘The cight volumes are hand-stitched throughout. Printed on special, decklr edge paper. {1 Gold ‘Tops, Silk Headbands, Ch Jing of distinctive design. Intaglio frontispicces. hotogravures made in Paris from designs specially prepared by M. Jacques Wagrez, assisted by MIMICR de Los Rios snd f Prodhommne > Dumas’ Masterpiece THE CELEBRATED CRIMES OF HIS- ‘TORY is considered by many in France as Dumas’ masterpiece. The highest praise has been bestowed on it by Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, and other competent judges among English litterateurs. Was it for reasons of state that the French so jealously guarded this treasure that over half a century had clapsed before it was given to the English reading world—and then through the enterprise of an American publisher? ‘Think of a fascinating new historical serics—of which only the highly privileged few among English readers heretofore had any knowledge—a series full of the human interest appeal, by you favorite author, vivacious, witty, ardent, brilliant, big-he Mexandre Dumas, who gave you your first real taste for Ei pean history while following the adventures of D'Artagnan and ‘The Three Musketeers, and the hcroes and heroines in his other matchless romances! dnd all yours at a really nominal price! Seeing is Believing The Licentious Court Nothing in the Whole be sure to send to-day. We don’t want to dis- appoint you, as so o! too late. “To- a n't mean next week or the week follow- ing. You'll nerer forgire yourself if you let this opportunity pass. We deliver the set, express prepaid. And we refund your money. if you're not satisfied. 3.1280 rfirst payment on the 8 volume set of Dumas’ “Celebrated ped charges prepatd. [agree to remit the full special price. te of $1.00 (or more) per month following rerelpt of books. ‘within Ave daysask for instructions for their return, at your 200 to be refunded on thelr rereipt. State of the Borgias ‘The value of this series, historically be judged when it is known that there are nearly eight hundred pe introduced, ma: may 1 places jed with the most famous scenes in media and later history, while others take the reader off the main thoroughfare among the by-paths of hi torical events. Br worked int vivid picture of the Dark Ages are the vices jiantly and crimes of that extraordinary family, the Borgias, that furnished one Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest pag ous, pois history. Here we see the whole murd crew pictured with all the snap and vim which only Dumas could put into subjects which interested him—Caesar, Rodrigo (Mexander VI), Francesco, and the beautiful and de- praved Lucrezia, with the intrigues and dcbaucheries of the mediaeval papal court— the murders, abductions, poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of eyewitnesses, th naive accounts which, without ¢ ment, call a spade a spade. cere arate et ater rc pean aa oe Te World Like en “Great crime in the world’s history ‘th a thorough knowledge of past times without the aid of such a book as this"—Says THE NEW YORK HERALD, recently reviewing TED CRIMES OF THS- f History is enraptured Ith of facts, from new authori- bear by Dumas upon the life ind beautiful but indiscreet rt. as Queen of France story of her amours, imprisonment and mur- ‘TORY, with the w and ill-fated Ma and Scotland, Re and of her barbarc derous execution, which constitute ene of the est crimes of history, told as Du an tell it. ‘There is no other we Nowhere else can you get so intin a view of the men and wom deeds in every quarter of Europe n, from ‘Turkey to Scot contributed so much of tragedy to the ro mantic portion of the history of the OW And every word is just as Dumas None of the editions of Duma and no set of Dumas is complete without them. works;