Judge — February 10, 1917 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Who Was He_ this lonely daub andi 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 st’! excite such intense interest and retain so strong a hold on the imaginationP Why does he always arouse a feeling of terror that will not downP What was his past? Was 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 unexpurgated translation of Dumas’ LES CRIMES CELEBRES, 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 volumes are hand-stitched throughout. Printed on special, deckl: edge paper. Real Gold 1 k Headbands, Cloth binding of distinctive design. Intaglio frontispieces. Photogravures made in Paris from designs specially prepared by M. Jacques Wagrez, assisted by MM. R. de Los Rios and F. Prodhomme. 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 elapsed before it was given to the English reading world—and then through the enterprise of an American publisher? human interest appeal favorite author, vivacious, witty, ardent, brilliant, big. Mexandre Dumas, who gave you your first real taste for Euro- gean history while following the adventures of D'Artagnan and ‘The Three Musketeers, and the herocs and hero : matchless romances Seeing is Believing Ts all you need $ send now, with the coupon. But he sure to send to-day. We don’t want to dis- appoint you, as so often happens to” applicants for our limited offers doesn’t mean next or the week follow- ing. You'll never forgive yourself if you let this opportunity pass. We ver the set, nd we refund your pect month following receipt of books. ‘ak for instructions for thelr return, at your expense, my $1.00 to be refunded on thelr receipt Name Mddvens Occupation And all yours at a really price! The Licentious Court of the Borgias ‘The value of this series, historically, may be judged when it is known that there are nearly eight hundred personages and places introduced, many identified with the most famous scence in mediaeval and later history, while others take the reader off the main thoroughfare among the by-paths of his- cal events, Brilliantly worked into a ure of the Dark Ages are the vices and crimes of that extraordinary family, the Borgias, that furnished one Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest pages in history. Here we see the whole murderous, poisonous crew pictured with all the snap and vim which only Dumas could put into subjects which interested him—Caesar, Rodrigo (Alexander VI), Francesco, and the beautiful and de- praved Lucrezia, with the intrigues and debaucheries of the mediaeval papal court— the murders, abductions, poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of eyewitnesses, those naive accounts which, without embarrass- ment, call a spade a spade. Nothing in the Whole World Like Them “Great crimes have played so large a part in the world’s history that one cannot obtain a thorough knowledge of past times without the aid of such a book as this”—Says THE NEW yORe feat recently reviewing S OF HIS- The bi of History is enraptured with the wealth of facts, from new authori- ties, brought to bear by Dumas upon the life of the charming and beautiful but indiscrect and ill-fated Mary Stuart as Queen of France and Scotland. Read the story of her amours, and of her barbarous imprisonment and mur- derous execution, which constitute one of the greatest crimes ‘of history, told as Dumas alone can tell it. There is no other work like this. Nowhere else can you get so intimate a view of the men and women whose mis- deeds in every quarter of Europe, from Rus- sia to Spain, from Turkey to Scotland, have contributed so much of tragedy to the ro- mantic portion of the history of the Old World. And every word is just as Dumas wrote it. None of the editions of Dumas contain these works; and no set of Dumas is complete without them. comicbooks.com