Judge — December 22, 1917 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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December 22, 1917 es A GLASS OF WINE WITH THE BORGIAS| The youth hesitates, hand on glass. Will he obey the imperious look of command in the eyes of the beautiful Lucrezia— the magnet that has drawn him to this supper in the pontifical apartment? Will he yield to the ingratiating advances of Cwxsar and partake of the proffered cup? Or will he be warned before it is too late by the sinister glance shot from the cruel eyes of the / old Pontiff, as he coldly calculates the destruction of the young gallant? a To comply or refuse is equally hazardous. If he decline the poisoned draught will he escape the knife of the hired assassin | even now lurking in the shadows of the Papal Palace Rodrigo Borgia (Alexander V1), Lucrezia and Casar formed the diabolical trinity which sat for eleven years upon the papal [) throne in Rome, an impious parody of the Holy Trinity—the most perfect incarnation of evil that ever existed on earth. How many i ) TE OT, SS Rie | I told yey ty gallant lives thus darkly and without commotion passed out of sight, whirled away by the headlong torrent of the ambition of that F ible triumvirate, is told as only that great weaver of word pictures, Alexandre Dumas, could tell it in his “Tate ording iy ristened Was im. 1 on you ver chris a bucket CAINS By wera ly XY, % o xe v y f N - = i THE CELEBRATED CRIMES OF HISTORY : vas i NEVER BEFORE TRANSLATED inter?” f The millions of English readers and admirers of the works of Alexandre Dumas will hail with keen delight this, the first, and | absolutely the on/y complete and unexpurgated translation of Dumas’ Les Crimes Cevesres, now for the first time available at F 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 spas | was eagerly snapped up by wealthy connoisseurs, the small edition it is our privilege to offer our patrons has all the unusual features pe so much appreciated by lovers of books as works of art. The eight volumes are beautifully bound in cloth, stamped with emblem- } © atic design, with monogram in Gold Field. 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 title pages are by Giraldon. Dat’s : . ° ° ’ : A Licentious Court Nothing in the Whole Dumas’ Masterpiece ved ‘The value of this series, historically, may _be World Like Them See eee re Oe. aierony fee d when it is known that there are nearly eight h Andrew Lang. ial Fl hundred personages and places introduced, many “Great crimes have played so large a part in the nil other competent judges amone that F) identified with the most famous scenes in medieval world’s history that one cannot obtain a thorough — : a this tresmace chat over hi and later history, while others take the reader off the — knowledge of past times without the aid of such a r lapsed before it was given to the Engl Bo main thorou by-paths of historical book as this” —Says THE NEW YOR HERALD. nd then through the enterprise ‘ofan ly as } events. Brill y ‘d into a vivid picture of ‘THE CELEBRATED CRIMES ? a 0 de i k Ages are the vices and es of that ex- ORY. “The lover of Histo: enraptured Seeing Is Believing nth | y family, the Borgias, that furnished one with the wealth of facts, from new authoritie ail you nocd snd now, with the coupon adv Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest pages in ar by Dumas upon the life of the chan 4° ‘ady Bf history. ful but indiscreet and ill-fated Mary Stuart offers who act 100 fa now I Hees wees thewhee wunemupooaaes S (Queen of France and Scotland. Read the story of her 94 crinnily past. We ia, ere crous, poisono lof her barbarous imprisonment and mur. end your mores. ys ated with their greedy craving for debauchery, flattery ecution, which constitute one of the greatest MAIL_THIS COUPON TODAY __| atch titles and gold. We watch the career of the beauti- i old as Dumas alone can tellit.. There [BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. J-1z-22-17 yi? ful and depraved Lucrezia who with the head of a is no other work like this. Nowhere else can you get so 1116 Brunswick Bldg., New York City |] Madonna of Raphael had the heart of a Messalina intimate a view of the men and women whose misdeeds in rent gathe 8 volume set of Dumas’ f] beneath her demure exterior. We see the intrigues o ery quarter of Europe, from Russia to Spain, from r$taioo, at the rate of $1-00 (or more) Jj teemediaval papa court— the murders, abductions have contributed 9p uch of traeed ; Ctherwise Peli witha r as poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of eyewi And every word is just as Dumas wrote it. None of the nesses, those naive accounts which, without embar- editions of Dumas contain these stories; and no set of rassment, call a spade a spade. Dumas is complete without them: a eS ON OE EST, comicbooks.com