Judge, 1929-04-13 · page 2 of 36
Judge — April 13, 1929 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily a **book advertisement**, not satirical content. It promotes "The Father" by Katharine Holland Brown, winner of a $25,000 prize novel competition. The advertisement includes: - **Book cover image**: Shows three figures—a man in a top hat, a woman in a white dress, and a child—representing the "father and his motherless daughter" mentioned in the text. - **Historical context**: The novel is set in the pre-Civil War era and centers on an abolitionist father and his family's relationship with Abraham Lincoln. - **Publisher**: The John Day Company, New York City - **Price**: $2.00 (postpaid $2.10) - **Status**: Already in its sixth printing, suggesting commercial success The quotes praise the book's portrayal of Lincoln and historical period accuracy. This is straightforward period advertising, not satire.
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The $25,000 prize novel 7 ISS BROWN’S book is a de- lightful love story; but it is much more. It is one of the best pic- tures of a crucial period in our history done so far.’—Margaret Widdemer. “Spontaneously amusing. The stuff of life is woven deep within its fiber and it moves along absorbingly and to the strain of a delicious good humor. The image of the great Emancipator is sin- gular and delightful. His essential good nature and uncouth lovableness are characterized with rare good skill. She brings Lincoln to life—and has wrought the nation and the whole world a service.”—Boston Transcript. THE FATHER — i] by KATHARINE HOLLAND BROWN | NOW IN ITS SIXTH PRINTING By KATHARINE HOLLAND BROWN/ A charming and dramatic romance of real Americans in the decade before the Civil War. Against one of the most colorful periods of American history is set this unusual story of the beautiful relationship between a father and his motherless daughter. $2.00, postpaid, $2.10. THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, Dept. J. 386 Fourth Ave., New York City Miss Brown writes absorbingly of an abolitionist father, and his amusing and lovable family. The father’s zeal for his cause throws the family into perilous situations, but it also brings them to the man who was to become the greatest of abolitionists—Abraham Lincoln. This book may be purchased from your bookseller. If a bookstore is not con- venient, mail your order to the publisher, adding postage. Address comicbooks.com