Judge — January 1933 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

_VAN LOON’S GEOGRAPHY AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE WORLD WE LIVEIN... T SOUNDS i ble, but nevertheless it s true. If everybody in this world of ours were six feet tall and a foot and a half wide a foot thick Cand that is making people a tle bigger than they usually are), then the le of the human race Cand according to je statistics there are now 2,000,000,000 descendants of the ote Sapiens and his wife) could box measuring half a on. That, as I just said acredible, but if you don’t believe ¢ out for yourself and you will find it to be correct. If we transported that box to the Grand na and balanced it neatly oa wall that keeps people from breaking their necks when stunned by the in credible beauty of that silent witness of the forces of Eternity, and then called Lite and told him (the nd loves to . dy contraption a his soft browa nose, there ent of crunching and tipping n planks loosened stones and ees on their downward path, and thea a low and even softer bumpity-bu bump and a sudden splash when the outer edges struck the banks of the Colorado River Then silence and oblivion! The human sardines in their mortuary chest would soon be g0 on battling wind and air and sun and 5 as it has done since it was created. The wo h ant and nearby planets would have 0: 1g out of the ordinary. A century ind, densely covered ald perhaps indicate where humanity lay buried. And that would be all. one © Van Loon opens his epic story of Mother Earth—a book that will make an Olympian of its every reader, old and young; but Olympians chastened to humil- uy by What it so magnificently unfolds. we of the 163 drawings Mr, Vin Bim ar made for is 22 of them in full A good example, retail price...$3.75 -to those who join the Book-of-the- Month Club at this time .. . it costs nothing to belong and you do not have to take a book every month E suggest simply that you send the coupon below and get full information as to what the Book-of-the-Month Club does for book- readers. For instance, are you aware that as a member you are not obliged to take the specific book-of-the-month chosen by the judges? You may buy it or not, as you please, after reading the judges’ pre-publication report about it. Nor do you have to pay any fixed sum. You simply pay the regular retail price for such books as you decide to buy. What then is the advantage of joining? There are many: first, book-dividends; for every dollar its members spend on books they receive back on the average over 50% in the form of free books. Second, without a penny of expense, through the reports of the judges you are kept completely informed about all the important new books, so that you can choose among them with discrimination, instead of having to rely upon advertising and hearsay. There are several other advantages, not readily measurable in money, that cannot be outlined here for lack of space. Surely, within the next year, the distinguished judges of the Club will choose as the book-of-the-month or recommend as alternates, at least a fetw books that you will be very anxious to read and which you will buy anyway. Why not—by joining the Club—make sure you get these instead of missing them, which so often happens; get the really substantial advantages the Club affords (such as the book-dividends mentioned, if nothing else), and at the same time get a copy of VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY, free, BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB INC. 386 Fourth Avenue. New York, N. Y. Please send me, without cost, a booklet outlining how the Book-of-the-Month Club operates. This request | volves me in no obligation to subscribe to your service. comicbooks.com