Judge — April 27, 1918 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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RBUCKLE verse 5 pri 27, 1918 (Fact Th Who Was He-—hi of France who personifies one of the greatest mysteries, one of the most history? of the Borgias The value of this s historically, y be judged when it is known that | there are nearly eight hundred personages ) the by-paths of historical events. | Dark Ages are the v fron and places introduced, many identified with the most famous scenes in medieval | and later history, while others take the reader off the main thoroughfare among Bril- vid picture of the es and crimes of | that extraordinary family, the Borgias, that furnished one Pope of Rome, and some of the blackest pages in history. Here we see the whole murderous, poisonous crew pictured with all the snap and vim which only Dumas could put into subjects which interested him— Cesar, Rodrigo (Alexander VI), Fran- cesco, and the beautiful and depraved Lucrezia, with the intrigues and de- baucherics of the medieval papal court— the murders, abductions, poisonings—drawn the chronicles of eyewitnesses, those naive accounts which, without embarrass- ment, call a spade a spade ) liantly worked into a FTE NT lonely figure standing on the rampart of a castle on an island off the coast Why after over two hundred years does he still excite such intense interest and retain so strong | The Licentious Court Nothing in the Whole World Like Them “Great crimes have played so large a part history that in the world's TORY with the wealth of facts, ES AEE ET eae ear a at Puts Fiction To The Blush! inexplicable crimes of hold on the imagination? Why does he alw arouse a |) 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? Did some fair one within the hallowed circle of royalty love not wisely but too well? Read the story of the “Man in the Tron Mask,” giving facts hitherto un- known, by that great weaver of word pictures, the irresistible ALEXANDRE DUMAS, in his | 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 oxly cor plete and unexpurgated translation | of Dumas’ Les Cries CeLEnReS, now for the first time available at a price within the reach of all readers. Printed from the same plates as the Edition sold by the Publisher at $125.co 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 cight volumes are beautifully bound in cloth, stamped with emblematic design, as illustrated in cut below, with monogram in Gold Field. The printing is large and clear, and the paper all that could be desired. “Phe eight volumes are finis The hed with Real Geld Tops. illustrations were made in Paris by M. Jacques : Wagrez, and the specially designed Reni SEEING IS title sare by Giraldon BELIEVING Dumas’ Masterpiece THE $1 ¢ 3RATED CRIMES OF Isall you need sendnow,with TORY is considered by mar as Dumas’ masterpiece. highest praise has been bestowed on it by Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, and other competent judges among English litterateurs. Was it for reasons of state that the French so jealously guarded this treasure that over half a century had elapsed before it was given to the English reading world—and then through the enterprise of an American publisher? Think of a fasci- nating new histor- ical serics—of which only the highly privileged few among lish readers here tofore you're pne cannot obtain satisfied a thorough knowledge of past times without bet any eS of such a book as this"—Says THE knowledge—a Re. pucttia ys THE cries full of the YORK HERALD, recently reviewing f°ttes full of the : SELEBRATED CRIMES OF IIS. 1 Bye soar as ne lover of History is enraptured auihor, hey from new authori- sous; witty, & ar by Dumas upon the life ardent, brilliant, bx ties, brought to | and beautiful but indiscreet and ill-fated Mary Stuart as Queen of France Read the story of her amours, and of her barbarous imprisonment and mur. of the charmin and Scotland, derous execution, the greatest crimes of history alone can tell it. this. wrote it. contain these stori complete without Nowhere else can you a view of the men and women whose mis- deeds in every quarter of Europe, from Rus. sia to Spain, from Turkey to Scotland, have contributed so much tic portion of the history of the Old a big-hearted Alex: andreDumas,who gave you your first real taste for Euro: pean history while following the adventures of D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers, and the heroes and heroin n his other \ matchless romances’ And all SAS which constitute one of told as Dumas other work like so inti There is ne yours at a really nominal pricet BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. 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