Judge, 1922-12-09 · page 22 of 36
Judge — December 9, 1922 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not political satire**. It's a promotional insert for the Collier & Son Company offering free books by Arthur Conan Doyle and E. Phillips Oppenheim. The illustration at top depicts a dramatic domestic scene—a woman with "a vampire soul behind a lovely face" who has driven her fiancé to madness through malevolent supernatural influence. This serves as clickbait advertising, teasing Doyle's mysterious and sensational storytelling to entice readers. The ad emphasizes Doyle's versatility ("a book for every mood") across adventure, romance, and detective fiction, including the famous Sherlock Holmes stories. It promotes a free-examination scheme: readers receive books on approval for one week without payment, then decide whether to purchase through installments. This reflects early 20th-century direct-mail marketing strategies targeting middle-class readers seeking affordable access to quality literature. The page contains no political commentary or social satire—it's purely commercial content designed to appear in Judge's pages.
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_ “A Vampire Soul | Behind a Lovely Face’ HE summoned her fiancé to her home in the night. She sent him away a raving maniac, loving her fiercely, yet transfixed with horror at the very thought of her. A long convalescence and blessed forgetfulness! ? Suddenly he senses her malignant will. It leads him screaming into the darkness of the night. Why did men love this exquisite woman up to the eve of the wedding, and then, at a word from her, go mad? The mystery grips you—it is a mystery such as comes only from the pen of the greatest of mystery writers. A. CONAN DOYLE Love—Adventure—-Mystery Did you know Doyle has a book for every mood? You may fight beside Sir Nigel or share the business villainies of Ezra Girdlestone In Fly Trap Gulch the huge man-eating plant awaits you; you are among the Nihilists; you are in Sassassa Valley with the fiend of a single eye. One of the world’s greatest love stories is Doyle's and one of the most stirring prize-fight tales. Fiction enough to last a year; and the Sherlock Holmes stories besides—ten beautiful volumes. If you act at once they are yours, and you will get FREE-—Six Wonderful Novels by E. Phillips Oppenheim Master of the International Intrigue Story For a few days only, those who send in the coupon. will receive free with the Doyle, in three compact volumes, six complete. stirring novels of E. Phillips Oppenheim —the master of amazing adven ture in international intrigue. of weird situations in underworld and palace. of pathetic loves and struggles among shifting scenes. Both Oppenheim and Doyle fascinate. grip the imagination. bring quick complete relaxation from every-day cares because they have written, not to moralize or teach, but to bring pleasure. These six novels, costing $12 when purchased in bookstores. are given away with the Doyle: Master of Men, The Great Awakening. T Win the Love He Sought, The Yellow House, The New Tenant. A Daughter of Astrea. Send No Money—Just the Coupon It is so easy to own these books. You need not send us a penny. The coupon will bring the complete works of Conan Doyle to your home. We expect you to do nothing but look through them, read all you can of them —and decide whether you want to own them. We leave them in your care a week. At the end of the week you may return the books at our expense if you do not want them in your library. You merely receive. read and pass judgment. The famous COLLIER PLAN OF FREE EXAMINATION has placed millions of the world’s best books in countless homes. Let the coupon bring Doyle. the Prince of Entertainers, to your door. Mail the coupon now, before the FRE ‘S OF OPPENHEIM are exhausted. Simply mail this coupon—no Hours and Hours of Pleasure and Thrill Await You in These Books money—and the books will be sent to youfora week's free examination Up F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY Mail Order Dept., 416 W. 13th St., New York City Send me on approval, charges paid by you. Conan Doyle's works in ten volumes. gold stamped. Also the three-volume set of Oppenheim bound in cloth. If [ keep the books. 1 will remit $1.00 within a week trod $3.00 a month for eight months for the Conan Doyle set only and retain the Oppenheim set without charge. Otherwise, I will, within a week. return both the Conan Doyle. beautifully boun monthly payme ad of eight cw), teat TJ Check binding desired Name Address “oC OM Occupation Persons under 21 should have parent sign order 68 Stories; 10 Novels; 3 Novelettes; 36 Adventure Stories; 19 Famous Sherlock Holmes Tales a comicbooks.com