Judge — June 29, 1918 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Fact That Puts Fiction To The Blush Who Was He- this lonely figure standing on the rampart of a castle on an island off the coast ) i one of the most inexplicable crimes of W hy sheer over two hundred years “does he still excite such intense interest and retain so strong a hold on the imagination? Why does he always 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 Iron 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 he 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 Cetenres, now for the first time available at a price within the reach ofall readers. Printed from the same plates as 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 cight volumes are beautifully bound in cloth, ped with emblematic design, a illustrated in cut below, with monogram in Gold Field. orinting is large and clear, the paper all that could be desired. The eight velumes are finished with R illustrations were made in Paris by M. Jacques - Wagrez, and the specially designed Renaissance title pages are by Giraldon Dumas’ Masterpiece THE CELEBRATED CRIMES OF HIs- TORY is considered by many in France as Dumas’ masterpiece. The 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? batty? ;? SEEING IS BELIEVING mean or the Mt voursel) if yor: Think of a fasci let this oppor. tunity pass Nothing inthe Whole iaisciess_/ ’ | World Like Them 1 ; y r “Great crimes have played so large a part in the world’s history that one cannot obtain a thorough knowledge of past times without ¢ aid of such a book as this”—Says THE The Licentious Court of the Borgias historically, may be judged when it is known that there are nearly eight hundred personages highly privileged few among lish readers here- tofore had any knowledge—a full of the The value of this serie: 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 the by-paths of historical events. Bril- liantly worked into a vivid picture of the Dark Ages are the vices and crimes of that extraordinary family, the Borgias, that furnished one Pope of Rome, } 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 ee subjects which interested him— Cesar, Rodrigo (Alexander VI), Fran- cesco, and the and depraved Lucrezia, with the intrigues and de- baucheries of the medieval papal court— the murders, abductions, poisonings—drawn from the chronicles of ‘eyewitnesses, those naive accounts which, without embarrass- ment, call a spade a spade ATELSIET W YORK HERALD, recently reviewing BRATED CRIMES OF HIS- TORY. The lover of History is enraptured with the wealth of facts, from new authori- tics, brought to bear by Dumas upon the life of the charming and beautiful but indiscrect and ill-fated Mary Stuart as Queen of France and Scotland. Read the story of her amours, and of her barbarous imprisonment and mur- derous execution, which constitute one of the greatest crimes of history, told as Dum alone can tell it. ‘There is no other work | this. Nowhere else can you get so intimate 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 of tragedy to the ro- mantic portion of the history of the Old World. And every word is just as Dumas wrote it. None of the editions of Dumas contain these stories; and no set of Dumas is com plete TH human interest appeal, by your favorite author, vivacious, witty, ardent, brilliant, 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 heroines in his other matchless romances! And all yours at a really nominal price! 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