Judge, 1918-02-16 · page 2 of 36
Judge — February 16, 1918 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It promotes "The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant" — a newly available collected edition of the French author's stories. The top section features an article titled "A Tragedy of Domestic Disillusionment," which appears to be editorial content discussing Maupassant's realistic portrayal of marriage, deception, and human nature. The text praises his unflinching depiction of vice and virtue "by events and action" rather than moral judgment. The bulk of the page showcases the book set itself—displayed as stacked volumes in decorative binding—alongside subscription details and pricing information. A coupon allows readers to order at a "specially low before-publication price." This represents **turn-of-century book marketing** rather than political commentary.
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A TRAGEDY OF DOMESTIC DISILLUSIONMENT Why does the poor fellow who really deserves the best usually get the worst of it in the matrimonial lottery? Maupassant, whose stories picture all sorts and conditions of life, and all kinds of men and women, from the best to the basest, with a relentless realism, has made the man who treads the Via Dolorosa of the deceived husband the subject of one of his best novelettes, that grips one with hooks of steel in the intensity of its passion and anguish. Why should the possession of a little money make a worthy man the legitimate prey of a scheming woman? Why is it that nothing reveals to upright hearts the deceits of infamous hearts? How is it that voices have the same sound for adoring as for lying? Why is a false, deceptive look the same as a sincere one? These are the reflections of the injured husband when, after years of fancied domestic security, the awful truth is borne home to him and the storm bursts. Maupassant does not moralize. In the wonderful pictures he gives of the world he lived in virtue is praised and vice is condemned rather by events and action. If he is terribly real, and the nudity of his human nature is startling in its effect, it is because his stories mirror life as he found it. While the eyes of the whole world are centered on the gallant French people, nothing could be more timely than the publication of this Complete Collection (Verdun Edition) of the works of France’s most gifted son, in whom realism reached its culminating point and the short story the perfection of its art, and whose stories of the Franco-Prussian War will be read now with a new interest and a fuller appreciation of their verity in the light of current events. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT AP Ta tee ts: re Roo A SPECIALLY LOW BEFORE-PUBLICATION PRICE READY IN A FEW DAYS UNABRIDGED AND UNEXPURGATED REALISM UNALLOYED By the time your order can reach us the 17 volumes "I 3 as x ‘the “every da A Fine Library Edition Maupassant presented only what he had actually will have been deliver st ease in pce to you The beautiful full p ntispiece illustrations — observed nding. have been specially mad ie VERDUN EDITION d This inthe on ¢ petty meannesses of human nature and the : pa st and cupidity—which stir most men $1.00 NOW AND GOUFON th. ct h ‘ and women to action not stay his impartial hand secures Your set at the present before-pu A so long as this ugly side of humanity existed. Piti- salen? pe be dda ge 2 hen payments of $1.5 ‘ ‘ less as is his art, at times he surprises us with a in which received. 17 Volumes in Rich Cloth Binding touch of tender pathos in which we recognize the , Esch Vilisme df'n bf lates warm heart of a fellowman. Puke White Antique Paper As the surpeme master in what is one of the most hm ae diffic forms ¢ —the shor story—. pas- BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. Jur 5,500 Pages That Will Hold You Chained by theHour difficult forms of art—the. short story—Maupa 1116 Brunswick Bldg., New York City 1 sant’s fame has extended into all civilized lands. 1 enclose $1.00 frst payment on the 17 volume 347 Stories, Novels, Novelettes, Poems, Dramas. Tolstoy marveled at the depth of human interest he Entertainment for a ‘Thousand and One found in his stories; Andrew Lang Love and Life in Strange Lands—Paris, found in him “the’ tenderness of faatrvetions for their etura, at your expense, iy $1.00 U Orient, ‘The African Hinterland, Stories of graphic power of Smollett, the biti Ron ar reemen War, Crime, Mystery and Horror. Swift, mingled and reincarnated in Gallic Address Send Today to Get the Benefit of the Before-Publica-_ 29d Henry Ja m as “a man of geniu i had achieved the miracle of a fresh tone Occupation tion Pi CERES TESS SE na -ePeNGe ta © comicbooks.com