Judge — August 11, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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August 11, 1917 Facet That Puts Fiction To The Blush 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? 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 hitherto 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 Duma 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 art. ‘The cight volumes are beautifully bound in cloth, stamped with emblematic design, as illustrated in cut below, with monogram in Gold F The printing is large and clear, and the paper all that could be desired. ‘The eight volumes are finished with Real Gold Tops. " The illustrations were made in Paris by M. Jacques . Wagrez, and the specially designed Renaissance Pani’ title pages are by Giraldon. $1 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? Nothing in the Whole World Like Them SZ 2S nson SOS ze Sz it the ellers bs Bd 2B re SRA yourself ifm fe let this oppor tunity pass * We deliver ae The Licentious Court of the Borgias ical which only highly. pri 2 The value of this series, historically, may “Great crimes have played so large a part in the world’s history that one cannot obtain few among lish readers h tofore had F] be judged when it is known that there are ; : any n the | : pe and places a.tborough knowledge of past times without Seikdgeets ‘ 5 pl pi series full of the | introduced, 1 tified with the most Humin iovereit lawn J} famous scenes in medixval and later history, appeal, by your baby i © others take the reader off the main ‘TORY. 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Read the story of her amours, rher- Borvias, that furnished one Pope of Rome, and of her barbarous imprisonment and mur- jone d some of the blackest pages in histe Here we see the whole murderot poisonous crew pictured with all the snap and vim which ly Dumas could put into subjects which interested him—Cwsar, Rodri (Alexander VI), Francesco, and the beautiful and de | i | | fF) praved Lucrezia, with the intrigues and 4 debaucheries of the mediaval papal court— | the murders, abductions, poisonings—drawa from the chronicles of eyewit naive accounts which, without embarrass- le. esses, those nt, call a spade a s GRU derous execution, wh constitute one of the greatest crimes of history, told as Dumas alone tell it. 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