Judge — April 1934 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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

A PHOTOGRAPH! No book in years has received such unreserved praise from men and wo- Mt OW men of eminence. The comments be- low could be multiplied, from letters and editorials, a hundred times over. CHARLES A. BEARD _ “A smashing book of exposition, inte -to those who join the Book-of-the- pretation, and damnation. I hope ‘that ee) fives all the Capcains and Kings the might- } mare they deserve, to the end of the world Month Club at this time... it costs J You may quote me as saying t . AASHUR SRISKANE nothing to belong and you donot = Nbdy will vee lee a ce iiet wil have totake a book every month tell as much about the war as those pictures cas tell. There is the war before you.” WALTER LIPPMANN W suggest that you send the coupon below to “{ haxeweens peacmany phocngregheilie get full information as to what the Book-of- hess before bas pt sages as ties ts the-Month Club does for book-readers. “Are you WE this book they are overwhelming in theit . power to convey the awful truths aware, for instance, that as a member you are never 4 obliged to take the specific book-of-the-month chosen HEYWOOD BROUN 4 by the judges? You may buy it or not, as you please, ++. the best of the war books, “Tactical ; P S ceaceulilicas Blunder,’ standing 10 black ty re Gado ake after reading the judges’ pre-publication report about picture of dead men in a tei h, sags jest it. There are no dues, no fees, no fixed charges of &s much as anybody has achieved in a hundred thousand words.”* any kind. You simply pay the regular retail price for such boaks as you decide to buy. What then is HERVEY ALLEN the advantage of joining? “All that can be dooe with the visual sense There are many, for instance, book-dividends: for every dollar to give the reader of this book a personal experien aol rae he been aecomapltbed, its members spend on books they receive back on the average The photograph editing is superb, ani os we § ees cepelocee lite bese “chan over 50% in the form of free books. There are many other miraculous.” advantages not readily measurable in money, that cannot be out- HERBERT BAYARD aed here for lack of space. Surely, within the next year, the distinguished judges of the Club will choose as the book-of-the- SWOPE 24, sotey was io my month or recommend as alternates, at least a few books that you office when it arrived, and it took brute ° " force to drag him away from the pictures will be very anxious not to miss and which you will buy anyway. after he had started to look at them."* e oad p Why not—by joining the Club—make sure you get these instead IDA M. TARBELL of missing them, which so often happens; ger the really substantial “hi have eever beta so sted by advantages the Club affords, and at the same time get a copy of captions. They are so grim and understai y " tog. Never have I seen a book which better THE FIRST WORLD WAR, free. proved the self-deception, the insanity and unspeakable horror of war.”” oe - - - NICHOLAS MURRAY BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB, INC. LER 386 FOURTH AV New York, N. Y. BUT “Truly this is & most re- ii eri pence nt cok Resse send me without cost, a booklet outlining how the found in thousands upon Js of our Book-of-the-Month Club operates. This request involves me in no public ‘braves andl schools, whee, the obligation to subscribe to your service Youth of voday may obtain through the eye 8 y the most vivid of impressions of the horrors, NAME the crucleies and barbarities of war. ae dian members through Book-of-the Month Clab (Canads) Limited eee comicbooks.com