Judge — March 2, 1918 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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March 2, 1918 = —E tox ry a ik SSNS aT SADA "AN EVENING With The TURKISH PASHA | Carlyle called him ‘‘The Unspeakable Turk.’’ Dumas pictures him as a compound of avarice, greed and |, treachery, of licentiousness and cruelty, in whose heart is the seed of all the basest passions, and whose life is devoted to their development and gratification; whose days are orgies of blood and whose nights are saturnalias of debauchery—a race built solely for conquest that fell back upon tyranny when deserted by the genius of victory —acountry torn by anarchy and lashed by the hand of insatiable masters:—frora such a race and country sprang Ali Tepalen,Pasha of Janina, who sums up in his personality the ideas and morals of the Turk of the Nineteenth Century. Read this story and understand why the Turk is the ally of the Hun—read this story of blood-lust and unbridled passions—wilder than any fiction ever dared be—one of the most intense and thrilling tales of Oriental life ever penned, and every word of it true, but told as only that great weaver of word pictures, Alexandre Dumas, could tell it, in his S qe eal —— OR ne Ws 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 Dumas’ Les Crimes Cetesres, now for the first time available at ) a price within the reach of all readers. Printed from the same plate 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 eight volumes are beautifully bound in cloth, sta. .ped 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. Dumas’ Masterpiece Fi : — til, cas eonamup:cauiee on esveny A Licentious Court Nothing in the Whole he ny in Prat Du: terpir 3 j ‘i The value of this series, historically, may be World Like Them judged when it is known that there are nearly eight | ; Nusdeed: pecionaper and places sntipduced,, tnany Great crimes have played so large a part in * identified with the most famous scenes in medixval nual obtain e:thorode paehy tBe Salere and later history, while others take the reader off the t times without the aid of such a : an main thoroughfare among the by-paths of historical his” Says THE NEW YORK HERALD, Seeing Is Believing events. Brilliantly worked into a vivid picture of y. Frevie TE CELEBRATED CRIMES $].00 !32t y00 need snd nog, with the cows the Dark Ages are the vices and crimes of that ex- OF HISTORY lover of History is enraptured i “ may want traordinary family, the Borgias, that furnished one With the wealth of ; new authorities, | Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest paxes in ve jusmas poe the ble of the. cian: pratld a ce and Scotland, Read the story of her MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY Here we see the whole murderous, poisonous crew amours, 3 parbarous imprisonment and mi sseecneansoassnmeoene with their greedy craving for debauchery, fi eee eta edie kd Sialkot titles and gold, We watch the career of the beauti- story, told as Dumas alone can tell it is . ful and depraved Lucrezia who with the head of a is no other work like this. Nowhere else can you g Madonna of Raphacl had the heart of a Messalina hale a.view of hemmee t) omen home misc ceas beneath her demure exterior, We see the intrigues of vey quarter of Lurene, from Kawa to Shai the mediaval papal court—the murders, abdue to the ron portion of the history of the Old World poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of ¢: > And every word is just as Dumas wrote it. None of the nesses, those naive accounts which, without embar- ditions af Dumas. con fe stories; and no set of rassment, call a spade a spade. Dumas is complete Ba SE A En aS a aa cution, which constitute one of the gre comicbooks.com