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September 1. 1917 Saree SEI ee ar | | The Licentious Court of the Borgias H) The value of this scries, historically, may dged wh ‘nit is known that there are dred personages and places many identified with the most cenes in medieval and later history, among the by-paths of his- Brilliantly k Ages are thorough! worked ii torical events. vivid picture of the Da and crimes of that extraordinary family, the Bor: that furnished one Pope of Rome, and some of t Here we sce the whole murderou crew pictured with all the snap and vim which 1s could put into subjects which a » (Alexander as, es in history. ackest pa poi: sted him— Lucrezia, with the intrig and ies of the medieval papal court— ers, abductions, poisonin, of nesses, . without emt | lu | = while others take the reader off the main Facet That Puts Ficti PAN has CTI et 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 ? 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? circle of royalty love not wisely but too well? of Dumas’ LES CRIMES C of all readers. art. The cight volumes illu the par illustrations were made Wagrez, and the speci title pages are by C CELEBRATE to the | publisher? 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 ” YORK HERALD, recently reviewing :LEBRATED CRIMES OF HI TORY. The lover of History is enrapture with the wealth of facts, from new auth ties, brought to bear by Dumas upon the lite of the charming and beautiful but indiscreet and ill-fated Mary Stuart as Queen of France and Scotland. 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