Judge — March 17, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Hart. The eight volumes are hand-stitched throughout. k Headbands, Cloth binding of distinctive design. s from designs specially prepared by M. Jacques \agrez, assisted by RR Ui sus ena IN) ek aS Who Was He —this lonely figure Sling 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? it the intrigues of the diplomat? circle of royalty love not wisely but too well Read the story to unknown, by that cat ALEXANDRE DUMAS, in his Was it the dissolute life of the courtier? Did some fair one within the hallowed of the “Man in the Iron Mask,” weaver of word pictures, Was giving facts hither- the irresistible The Celebrated Crimes of History Never Before Translated The n with keen de! of Dumas’ LES CRIMES ( of all reade h was cage: ish readers and admirers of the works 01 fi bsolutely the only, complete and unexpurgated translation BRES, now -or the first time available at a price within the reach . Printed from the same p ates as the Edition sold by the Publisher at y snapped up by wealthy connoisseurs, the small edition it is our privilege to Mexandre Dumas will hail offer our patrons has all the unusual features so much appreciated by lovers of books as works of Real Gold Tops, Photogravures m MM. R. de Los Rios and Dumas’ Masterpiece TORY is considered by many . Prodhomme. Printed on spe THE CELEBRATED CRIMES in France as Dumas’ 1, deck! edge paper. Intaglio frontispicces. OF HIS- The masterpiece. 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 series—of which only the highly privilege among Ei knowledge—a se: sh readers heretofore had any full of the human interest appeal favorite author, vivacious, witty, ardent, brilliant, big-hearted Mexandre Dumas, who gave you your first real taste for Euro- pean history while following the adventures of D’Artagnan ani The Three Musketeers, matchless romances! ./nd all Seeing is Believing Is all you need $ send now, with the coupon. But be sure to send to-day. 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Name and the heroes and heroii yours at a really in his other 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 scenes in mediaeval and later history, while others take the reader off the main thoroughfare among the by-paths of his- torical events. Brilliantly worked into a vivid picture 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. 4 | a See SEE 08 TAO 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 Says THE reviewing the a'd of such a book as this NEW YORK HERALD, recent! ‘THE CELEBRATED CRIMES OF HIS- TORY. The lover 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 indi: and ill-fated Mary Stuart as Quech of I 4 and Scotland. Read the story of her amours, and of her barbarous ‘mprisonment 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 intimat 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