Judge — March 30, 1918 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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[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— , 4 the magnet that has drawn him to this supper in the pontifical apartment? Will he yield to the ingratiating advances of Cxsar | | 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? 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 VI), Lucrezia and Ca throne in Rome, an impious parody of the Holy T: many gallant lives thus darkly and without commotion passed out of sight, whirled aw tion of that terrible triumvirate, is told as only that great weaver of word pictures, Alexandre Dumas, 7 | ar formed the diabolical trinity which sat for eleven years upon the papal nity—the most perfect incarnation of evil that ever existed on earth. How y by the headlong torrent of the ambi- could tell it in his att ee 2 Se Ow > NS oo p THE CELEBRATED CRIMES OF HISTORY i NEVER BEFORE TRANSLATED ‘lish readers and admirers of the works of Alexandre Dumas will hail with keen delight this the first, and Cecesres, now for the first time available at a price within the reach of all readers. Printed from the same plat 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, stamped with emblematic 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. Nothing in the Whole A Licentious Court Dumas’ Masterpiece A THE CELEBRA’ CRIMES OP IIS’ ¥ » of this series, historically, may be dumed by many in Praaco . j nit is known that there are nearly eight Rid tinthe jwndred personages and places introduced, many Re xt obtain a thorough — jgentified with the most famous scenes in medieval — that t The millions of Kr absolutely the on/y complete and unexpurgated translation of Dumas’ Les Crime n Was it for reasons Jed this treasure tha: ree a pa ¢ he Pri the aid of such a and later history, while others take the reader off the half a century had elapsed before it was given to the . * glish reading world d then through the enterprise of an main thoroughfare among the by-paths of historical lsh reading world review E events. Brilliantly worked into a vivid picture of : ee OF INSTORY. story isenraptured the Dark Ages are the vices and crimes of that ex- Seeing Is Believing ] with the wealth of facts, from new authorities, — traordinary family, the Borg brouxht to bear by Dumas upon the life of the charm: Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest pages in nd beutiful but indisereet and ill fated Mary Stuart 43 » Queen of France and Scotland J the nIstOry « 4 opportunity pass the set, express prepaid. And we fer barbarous ipracniticnt| ghd tur Here we sce the whole murderous, poisonous crew Fetund your money if you're not satisfied, told as Dumas alone can tell it. ‘There titles and gold. We watch the career of BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. J is no other work like this. Nowhere else you get so — ful and depraved Lucrezia who with the head of a 1116 Brunswick Bldg., New York City intimate a view of the men and women whose misdeeds in Madonna of Raphael had the heart of a Messalina z nt on the & vata set 0 Wien aad cot et ity beneath her demure exterior. We sce the intrigues 00) atthe Scotland have contributed so much of trage¢ of the ine 3 surt=the: ie . antic portion of the history of the Cid World. of the medizval papal court—the murder tions, poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of eye- wl every word is j Dumas wrote it. None of the ¢ Y Dumas contain these stories; and no sct af Witnesses, those naive accounts which, without em- Dumas is com plete without them. barrassment, call a spade a spade. s, that furnished one $1.00 Je all you need send now, with, the © often happens to a} offers who act too late, Vow ll mever for cive yours