Judge — January 2, 1932 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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re PRAISE FROM THE CRITICS All parents and all youth may profit by his story The Literary Digest This departed college boy unec diary Brooklyn Citizen scratched in THOUGHTS OF er LARRY Thoughts of Youth @ with 15 illustrations e $1.50 jously penned an epic when he t outstandi n ior helpi their chil Emerson Wildes. YOUTH- don’t miss it ! n uncensored | revelation of modern youth II LARRY was a student at Lafayette College. This remarkable human | document consists of his letters, diary and personal philosophy—all | written with no thought of publication and never revised, for he was killed suddenly. Not fiction, but the true diary and letters of a modern college student— so frank, unspoiled and revealing that after Larry's death his parents and friends were persuaded to share his thoughts with other boys and girls and with all other parents. Narrow modernists may get Larry wrong because he did not smoke or ein the Y and the church drink and was act He hit hard in’ fo tolerant. He put drunken classmates to bed and never preached at them, But Larry was no prig. ball. He was a leader of men, brave, gay and | He laughed down an “anti-necking society.” He punched cows and broke his own broncho, He lived gloriously and died with his boots on. Larry was such a boy as almost all mothers and fathers want their sons to be, and we believe his story to be a document that no parent—and no son or daughter—can afford to miss Every Mother and Father—Daughter and Son Should Read This Book NOW A NATIONAL “BEST-SELLER” LARRY was published last Christmas. columns or in bookstores. Little was heard of it then in literary There was no ballyhoo—very few re views —only the most But LARRY began to sell: at first Dr. Cadman and Dr. Poling praised casual mention in various large newspapers. only a few copies a week, then a few hundred. LARRY—over three thousand copies were sold that month. One evening Lowell Thomas mentioned LARRY on the radio; that same week The Literary Digest de- voted two pages to it. The publishers found they were out of stock. In the month of June LARRY appeared on the national Best-Seller list, and six thousand people bought a new “best-seller.” Such has been the remarkable sales record of LARRY: a story so human and appealing that this “phenomenal book” (Retail Bookseller) is now in its 6th printing (45th to 55th thousand). poooocoo oo - = - = - -- H 1 | } The John Day Co., Dept. J, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York 1 H Gentlemen: H 1 Please send me ................ Cop, RY SS 4 .... of | 1 LARRY: Thoughts of Youth, price $1.50. } ! I Enclosed please find.......... eee e ee cece eee eees cease } ] Name..........- ex Thsssexare syaaese, esos duiliens ecesmueienene eumibse sconene some | ! AddEESS: vec.cen.c wa aoa Reba & GGG Bales Hou. Riese $18 ai \ | | ! |