Life — December 18, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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1128 How Would “=~ 1 Man Act ? (By IF a man’s wife deserted him suddenly what would hee do? TWoutd he, like the cultured editor in the O. Henry story, blurt out, “Wouldn’t that knock you off your perch?’’ Or would he act as the other man did in the same story? Sax Rohmer. McBride, Nast * Co.) NEVER—save in rarebit dreams— Have met a wickeder concocter Of ghastly plots and hellish schemes Than Fu-Manchu, the Chinese doctor, With bulgy brow and pointed chin can guess. Short Stories Long Novels o. page, 2 volume 7 id th \ | get the Kipling free—get the O. Henry for the low price. aot Only so great a heart, so big a mind as that of O Hen Send the coupon for the O. HENRY complete works on approval. volumes and read this story for yourself. Then read read the set of on approval. If you did not get the original set at $120—if you are not one of 1 the 60,000 who have already taken this complete edition here offered —this is your chance. The nations hail O. Henry's genius. extend this offer much longer. Your time is now —sen e coupon— | Send the Coupon and Watch ; the World Through His Pages In his pages, watch the hurrying people pass before you like moving pictures of a street full of the stir and bustle Rs life. You see the wastrel living by wits, and the hundred-million ee man; the tramp who does not know where his nest dime is coming from; the carefully guarded debutante as well as the under-paid stenographer struggling along against temptation. Grafters, preachers, clubmen, gam. blers, drummers, members of the “400” and members of the Four Million, cowboys and cou —all were alike to O. Send_the Coupon and Go Back | to India With Kipling Mandalay—long since you heard the “Om Mane Pudme Hum” intoned along the sun-baked Indian roads, long since you listened to Mrs. Hawksbee’s clever plotting for the luring of men—long since you stole among the natives in “Estreck. han Sahib's” disguises—long since you heard Mulvaney’s roaring laugh and the “Drums of the Fore and Aft.” Get the Kipling Free--Rejoice ‘once more in the swing of those strong true tales. Read these 473 stories and look into the heart of truth. See how men in the hot East and the young West—are much the same. Weep laughingly over O. Henry. ingly over Kipling. Send No Money Without charge—expressage prepaid —both sets— 18 good volumes—come to you at once. If you don’t like them send them back at our expense. Otherwise 25 cents a weck pays fr them al n-cutters . Laugh weep- I's long since you wandered the Road to | Turn to page 240 of one of the the ey 273 other O. Henry stories each as good, and after that SS Already | he’s a classic—with thousands of imitators. Only because we feel that when one set of O. Henry goes now, two sets will go later, can we And filmy eyes as green as beryl "| And bony fingers, long and thin, He was, in truth, The Yellow Peril; For this vile monster wouldn't stop At any guilt or waste of plunder To put his heathen breed on top And tread the proud Caucasian under. Suppose your deeds, though good and kind, Were feared Seven?— The villain wouldn't fail to find ‘A means of sending you to heaven,— hy China's Secret Red_ scorpions, That make capers, or snaki . or drugs the victim cut queer Or dark Dacoits, or strangling Thugs, Or pretty girls, or choking vapors. Or, should he wish to use your skill He'd give you like aphasia, Or make you deathly cold and still, And freight you off, a slave, to Asia something Detective Holmes—no, Nayland Smith, And Doctor—no, not Watson, Petrie. Resolved, like lads of brains and pith, To foil Fu-Manchu's craft cheatry. and Though long they trailed that worst of men And often nearly trapped or shot him, He dodged them time and time again Till Chapter Thirty, when they got him. E’en then this Fiend of far Cathay Contrived to make a house his pyre And. dead or living—who can say?— Dissolved in lambent flames of fire! ‘The fame of O. Henry has been established — ets. O. Henry hasarnived— for this low price sale is about gone. Send the coupon today — withoutdelay without Review of Reviews ). New Verh A book so packed with creepy crimes And close escapes and ugly fighting That God is called on thirty times At least, can't help but be exciting Arthur Guiterman.