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Judge — March 31, 1917 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page celebrates Mark Twain through text and illustration, commemorating the centennial of Harper & Brothers' founding. The main cartoon (top left) depicts a scene from Twain's famous novel "The Prince and the Pauper"—showing a ragged street child and a young king who have exchanged places and cannot switch back. The image illustrates the story's central premise of social role-reversal. The accompanying essay praises Twain as a writer who combined humor with serious moral purpose. It emphasizes that beneath his comedy lay profound insights into human nature, spirituality, and social justice. The piece contrasts Twain's "laughter" with his deeper purpose: he "wrote history" and championed freedom and democracy. The advertisement below announces a half-price sale on Twain's collected works, framed as a centennial promotion. Harper & Brothers argues that making quality literature affordable serves democracy—"every man could afford" complete sets. For modern readers: this reflects how 1917 America venerated Twain as both entertainer and moral philosopher, using his work to promote literacy and democratic values.
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In the King’s Name. The little King of England and and could not change back! his time, King of all England, in ra mad child and w And the ragged street child, dressed the King’s fine robes, rified, sat in the Ps and ga Who of us so luck loyal, so kind and so what man does not wish to help him—wt Read “The Prince and the Pauper” Huckleberry Finn and the Mark in. with the world, his lonely spirit struggled — history, with the sadness of human life, accuracy. to find the key.” Beneath the a big human soul, a big phil clean, and yet the laughter of thoughtful then he men. the At first it seems a long simple, human fun of H the me humanity, the me half spirituality, that has been such a Amer glorious answer to those who ac- If up in material thing The hom Judge 3-31-17 HARPER & BROTHERS Franklin Square, N. Y. Mark Twain wanted these that we ma But Mark Twain could Because this is the & Broth: present supply I. mped in gold, fold. tops and untrimmed edges. VE hot satisfactory. | will return them at se,” Onherwis se | will cad you, Name Address Orders 1817 the pauper boy changed places a The proud little King, first monarch of beaten, threatened, had but one friend, Miles Hendon—and he thought him a s good to him in pity. bewildered and ter- ace. What a reckoning when the truth came out! What an amazed Miles Hendon! Was ever beloved ant Knight more gloriously rewarded? s tohave a friend like Miles Hendon—so wronged, so allant! And the little street child in the King’s Palace— t mother would not like him wain of Joan of Arc rolled into one. For it is humor and charm—and it is history and beauty. MARK TWAIN Bountiful giver of joy and humor, he that Mark Tw was yet much more, for, while he laughed — he wrote history, it was a new kind of travel, it was. a sat up_and notic Out of the generous west came Mark —stories, novels, tra Twain, giving widely and freely to the humor—but behind cach was the force world ‘such laughter as men had never of a great, earnest, powerful personali seen. It was laughter whole souled and that dominated his time, so th way from the cratic, he was welcomed by Kinys, he ckleherry Finn was loved by pl to the spiritual power of Joan of Arc, — He was a gallant fighter for freedom but look closer and you will find for human’ ¥ beneath them both the same ideal, ly humor, the generosity, the spirituality vealed, that we like to th r rcign nations love him, we in this cuse this nation of being wrapped = country give him first place in our hearts, There seems to be no end to the things an American hom The Centennial Half-Price Sale Must Close ¢ good-| looking, substantial books, tha toown. So we made this set, and there has becn a tremendou the price of cloth, would all Impoesible to continue the fong sal Ag an American you mut BS, in » Tt is the Mark in could do well. When unlike any other except in its When he wrote books of vent, and the world He'did many things vel, history, essays, even was known all over the face of The si nplicity, the kind= ne without Mark Twain is not books in the hands of all the people. He demanded every man could afford sale on it. of ink, hey have in thy t Ti thould have closed before this. one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harper jecided to continue this half- sale while the Get your set now while the price is low. t have Mark Twain. Send the coupon to- prevent edition fa all gone. HARPER & BROTHERS: Franklin Square, New York not fo With the College Wig They Don’t Know—Pcople call n| lucky. Just because I own my own roadster ay my own dress suit, people call me lucky. ‘Bah! 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