Judge — February 24, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS the courts of Europe were the stage where the whole political and human drama of the country was enacted. The conscious nether world revelled in envious awe as it got glimpses of those dis- tant spheres of Royalty, and gloried as it found their demigodded denizens frail. Under Louis XV. the court of France be- came an ante-chamber, or dressing-room, littered with the bandboxes and rouge- pots of the royal mistresses, and the mon- archy of old France made its final exit from the stage leaning on the arm of a courtesan, Mademoiselle Lange, as she was known in the underworld of Paris-— but read the whole story, as she tells it herself, with all the naiveté of a moral sister to Manon Lescaut in SECRET HISTORIES OF ROYALTY EDITION DES AMBASSADEURS Royalty in Undress An Unprecedented Bargain a ses gern in tae aay ee FResmerors woull'heve Titles of The Eleven Sumptuous Volumes and rly Duke so 0 tud A Partial List of Historical Characters Vol. L—Memoirs and Confessions of Vols; VI, VIL. VIII_—Memolra of Napo- perso ithout his crown. mtesse Du Barry, With Intimate leon, as Soldier, Emperor, Husbaud. new lodger in the Bastile Betatle of ter Eguire. Career as By MADAME JUNOT the world in richness. variety Favorite of Louls XV. reer 4 om them the stage dsandacques Rousseau—Voltaire—Maréchal ne—Pouché— Marshal Murat peral education. De Richelieu—Czar Peter of Russia—Due De at —Queen Hortense — Empert Choiseul—The Robans. extravagant, ious Vols. IT, IIT, 1V.—Memoirsof theCourt —_y, —See ; fate he pomp a fee cf war he ne Ziv Meike of che Con ol. IX. —Secret Memoirs of the Court pete ell sto he oi 5 r By the DUC DE SAINT SIMON By COMTE DE MIRABEAU arge inthe Cardinal Richeliea—Madame De Maintenon —_pyederick the Great—Em 6 m i 3 press . ; = Ninon De L’Enclos—La Valliere—Madame =—The Duke of Brunswick—Mademoi elle cens, courtiers and favorites, whose spec, De Montespan—Abbe Fénelon. Voss—Goertz—Prince Potemkin. ions of the old world with their gic an¢ sbstantii ackaow.edgments than its affecte! Vol. V.—Secret_Memolrs of the Royal Family of France. Vols. X, XI.—Memolrs of the Courts of Only a few sets left of this Edition, specially made for a Fetcie et Coe ae AE as: Charles 1and Chartes, tT,,/s0d'the Foreign Market closed,by the great European War een neite ° , The Diary Maria Theresa—La Payette—Robespierre Oliver Cromwel!—Nell Gwyan—Duchess of Madame Campan — Necker — Pope Portsmouth —Duke of Mar!torough—Colonel Yi food —Prince Rupert. Your Last Chance—POSITIVELY Only $1.00 Now and Coupon To secure one of these matchless sets at a discount of over 70°; from the regular price. The tt volumes are sumptuous Koyal_ 8vo | BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. j2u it chor bound, fn ove 1116 Brunswick Bld -.. New York City t payment on the 11 volume set of “Secret nie Meanipped harks prepald. T agice to ice, $16.09 at the rate of $1.00 {or more) per Tonth following Teeeipt Of books. ‘Otherwise I will within hve days Jor'their return, at your expense, My $1.00 ited on their receipt Address and drama’ acter of their contents. Occupation