Life, 1921-11-24 · page 32 of 34
Life — November 24, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is **not a political cartoon**—it's a Christmas mail-order advertisement from Appeal Publishing Company in Girard, Kansas, circa early 1900s. The company is selling a "Great Christmas Sale" offering classic literature and essays at 10 cents per book (normally 25 cents). The catalog lists 239 volumes of "world's best books"—classics like *Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, works by Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, and Emerson, plus debate pamphlets on topics like religion, birth control, and marriage. The framing emphasizes **affordability for ordinary readers**: "a price so trifling you'll never miss it." The entire 239-volume library costs $16.90 (versus $59.75 regular price). This reflects Progressive Era values—making serious literature and intellectual debate widely accessible to working-class Americans. Note the inclusion of controversial topics (birth control, socialism) suggests this was a left-leaning publisher promoting public enlightenment and critical thinking.
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Great Christmas Sale World’s Best Books The priceless treasure of the world’s greatest literature is offered to you at a price so trifling you'll never miss it. brought us such a deluge of requests for a repetition to enable the public to use these great titles as Christmas Gifts that we virtually are forced to This Christmas Sale will end—promptly and By mailing your order before midnight of December 24, you can get any of the famous books listed below announce another great sale. positively—at 12 o'clock December 24. The close of our last sale mas. by numbers. 25 cents a copy will prevail. price possible for introductory purposes. continue the rate permanently, however. as many of these ONLY 10c EACH for only 10 cents each. After Christmas, the regularly advertised price of Enormous production has made the ten-cent It will not be practicable to Get your order in before Christ. Seize an opportunity that may never be repeated. ‘Appeal Library volumes as you please. Order as few or Specify the books For instance, if you want “Carmen,” write down “21.” We handle all book orders by numbers to speed up deliveries. Take Your Pick at Only 10c a Book Order by NUMBERS only—not by Titles—because we handle all our book orders by numbers 1 Rubalyat of Omar Khayyam. 2 Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Read- Ing Jail. 3 Eighteen Little Essays. Vol- taire. 6 De Maupassant’s Stories. 7 A Liberal Education. Thomas Huxley. 8 Lady Windermere’s Fan. Os- car Wilde, Tio Shetley. Francls Thompson. Il Debate on Religion between John Haynes Holmes and George Bowne. 12 Poe's Tales. 13 Is Freo Will a Fact or Fal- lacy? Debate. 14 What Every Girl Know. Mrs. Sanger. 15 Balzac’s Stories, 17 On Walking. Thoreau. 18 Idle Thoughts of an Fellow. Jerome. 19 Nietzsche: Who He Was and What He Stood For. 20 Let's Laugh. Nasby. 21 Carmen. Merimee. 24 The Kiss and Other Stories. A. Chekhov. 25 Rhyming Dictionary. 26 On Going to Church. Shaw. 27 Last Days of a Condemned Man, Hugo. 28 Toleration. Voltaire. 29 Dreams. Schreiner. 30 What Life Means to Me. London. 31 Pelleas and Molisande. terlinck. 32 Poe's Poems. 33 Brann: Smasher of Shams, 34 Case for Birth Control. 35 Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. 36 Soul of Man Under Socialism. Oscar Wild 37 Dream of John Ball. Willlam Morris. : 39 Dr. Jekyll Hyde. Stevenson. 39 Did Jesus Ever Live? Debate. 40 House and the Brain, Bul- wer Lytton. 41 Christmas Carol. Dickens. 42 From Monkey to Man. 43 Marrlage and Divorce. De- bate by Horace Greeley and Robt. Owen. 44 Aesop’s Fables. 45 Tolstoi's Storles. 46 Salome. Oscar Wilde. 47 He Renounced the Jack London. 48 Bacon’s Essays. 49 Three Lectures on Evolution. Haeckel. 50 Common Sense. Should Idle Bernard Jack Mae- and) Mr. Faith, Thos. Paine. 5! Bruno: His Life and Martyr- . Victor Hugo, 53 Insects and Men; Instinct and Reason. Darrow. 54 Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde. 56 Wisdom of Ingersoll. 57 Rip Van Winkle. 58 Boccaccio's Stories. 59 Eplorams of Wit. 60 Emerson’s Essay on Love. 61 Tolstoi's Essays. 62 Schopenhauer’s Essays. G4 Meditations of Marcus Aurel- us. 68 Shakespeare's Sonnets. 70 Lamb's Essays. 71 Poems of Evolution, ogy. 72 Color of Life, E. Haldeman- Julius. 73 Whitman's Poems, 74 On Threshold of Sex. 75 The Choice of Books. Car- le. 76 The Prince of Peace. 78 How to Be an Orator. P. Altgeld. 79 Enoch Arden. 80 Piilars of Society. 81 Care of the Baby. 82 Common Faults in Writing English. 83 Marriage: Its Past, and Future. Besant. Anthol- Bryan. John Ibsen. Nun. 85 The Attack on the Emile Zola. 86 On Reading. Georg Brandes. 87 Love: An Essay. Montaigne. 88 Vindication of Thos. Paine. Ingersoll. 89 Love Letters of Men and Wo- men of Genius. Presented to Men, 92 Hypnotism Made Plain. 93 How to Live 100 Years. Cornaro. 94 Trial and Death of Socrates. 95 Confessions of an Oplum Eater. De Quincey. 96 Dialogues of Plato. 98 How to Love. 99 Tartuffe. Moliere, 100 Tho Red Laugh. 101-Thoughts of Pascal. 102 Tales of Sherlock Holmes. 103 Pocket Theology. Voltaire. 104 Battle of Waterloo. Hugo. 105 Seven Andreyev. Sand, Entire Library—239 Volumes sive bindings, would cost $1 to $3 each. Think of dozen books! But your order must be mailed not later than Present 84 Love Letters of a Portuguese Mill. 91 Manhood: The Facts of Life Andreyev. That Were Hanged. 106 Thoughts and Aphorisms. Geo. | 107 How to Strengthen Mind and Memory. 108 How to Develop a Healthy Mind. 109 How to will, 110 How to Develop a Magnetic Personality. 1 How to Attract Friends. 112 How to Be a Leader of Others. 113 Proverbs of England. 114 Proverbs of France, 115 Proverbs of Japan. 116 Proverbs of China. 117 Proverbs of Italy. 118 Proverbs of Russia. 119 Proverbs of Ireland. 120 Proverbs of Spain. 121 Proverbs of Arabia. 122 Debate on Spiritualism. Con- an Doyle and Joseph McCabe. Vegetarianism. Debate. War Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. History of Rome. A. F. Giles. What Expectant Mothers Should Know. Julius Caesar: Who He Was and What He Accomplished. Rome or Reason. Debate. Ingersoll and Manning. Controversy on Christianity. Debate. Ingersoll and Glad- stone. Redemption of Tolstoi. 132 Foundation of Religion. 133 Principles of Electricity. 135 Socialism for Millionaires. G. B. Shaw. 136 Child Trainin 137 Home Nursing. 138 Studies In Pessimism. Scho- penhauer, 141 Would Practice of Christ’s Teachings Make for Social Progress? Det 142 Bismarck and the German Empire. 143 Pope Leo's Socialism. 144 Was. Poe Immoral? H. Whitman. 145 Great Ghost Stories, 147 Cromwell and His Times, 148 Strength of the Strong. Lon- don. 151 Man Who Would Be King. Kipling. 152 Foundations of the Labor Movement. Wendell Phillips. 154 Eplgrams of Ibsen, 155 Maxims, Napoleon. 156 Andersen's Fairy Tales. 157 Marx vs. Tolstol. 158 Alice in Wonderland. Develop a Strong Encyclical on Sarah 159 Lincoln and the Working 160 In speare. 161 Country of the Blind. H. G. Wells. 162 Karl Marx and the American Civil War, 163 Sex Life in Greece and Rome. 164 Michael Angelo’s Sonnets. 165 Discovery of the Future. H. G. Wells. 166 English as She Mark Twain. 167 Rules of Health. Plutarch. 168 Epigrams of Oscar Wilde. 169 Church Property Be Taxed? Debate. 171 Has Life Any Me Ing? De- bate. 172 Evolution of Love. Ellen Key. 173 Vision of Sir Launfal. Lowell 174 Free Speech Trial of Wm. enn, 175 Sclence of History. Froude. 176 Four Essays. Havelock Ell's. 177 Subjection of Women. John Stuart Mill. 178 One of Cieopatra’s Nights. Gautier. 179 Constitution of League of Na- tlons. 180 Epigrams of Bernard Shaw. 183 Realism in Art and Litera- ture. Darrow. 184 Primitive Beliefs. H. M. Tichenor. 185 History of Printing. Disraeli. 186 How 1 Wrote “The Raven.” Poe. 187 Whistler’s Humor. 188 How Voltaire Fooled Priest and King. Darrow, 189 Eugenics. Havelock Ellis. 190 Psycho-Analysis—The Key to Human Behavior. Fielding. 191 Evolution vs. Religion. Balm- forth. 192 Book of Synonyms. 195 How to Keep Well. 196 The Marquise, George Sand. 197 Witticisms and Reflections of Mme. De Sevigne. II's Lecture on Shake- Is Spoke. 198 te 200 Ignorant Philosopher. taire, 201 Satan and the Saints. Tichenor, 202 Survival of the Fittest. H. M. Tichenor. 203 Rights of Women. Havelock Ellis. Vol- H. M. 204 Sun Worship and Later Be- lets. H. M. Tichenor, 205 Artemus Ward, His Book, 206 Debate on Capitalism "ys. Socialism, Seligman and Nearing. 207 Olympian Gods. H. M. Tich. 208 on Birth Control, a* and Winter 209 Aspects of Birth Medical, Moral, Dr. Knopf. 210 The Stole Philosophy. Gilbert Murray PRE 211 Idea of God in Nature Stuart Mill. 212 Life and Character. 213 Lecture on Lincoln. Control, Sociological, John Goethe, Robt. 214 8 of Lincoln. 215 Miraculous Bernard Shaw. 216 Wit of Heinrich Heine. Geo, Eliot. 218 Four Essays. Jean Jaures. 219 The Human Tragedy. Ana- tole France. 220 Essays on the New Testament. Robert Blatchford. 221 Women, and Four Other Es- says. Maurice Maeterlinck. 222 The Vampire and Other Poems. Rudyard Kipling 223 Essays on Swinburne Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 224 God: The Known and Un- known. Samuel Butler. 225 On a Certain Condescension In Foreigners. Jas. Russell Lowell, 226 Professor Bernhardi; A Play. Arthur Schnitzler. 227 Keats, the Man, and His Friends. 228 Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley. 229 Diderot. Havelock Ellis. 230 The Fleece of Gold. Theo- phile Gautier. Eight Humorous Samuel Clemens Twain). The Three Strangers. Thos Revenge. His Work Sketches. (Mark 233 Art. Goethe. 234 MeNeal-Sinclair, Socialism. 235 Five Essays. Gilbert K. Ches- terton. 236 The State and Heart Affairs of King Henry VIII, 237 Poems in Prose. Baudelaire. 238 Reflection on Modern Science. Huxley. 239 Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, and Other Tales, Maxim Gorki. Debate on Worth $59.75—Only $16.90 until December 24 These books are recognized masterpieces. Many of them, purchased in the ordinary way in expen- December 24. 239 vols. i tire library for the usual price of a getting an enti ary poets Sale Ends Christmas Day- - -Send Your Order NOW We have plenty of books on hand at present, but some numbers may be exhausted before the sale ends. To be safe, send your order at once, enclosing draft, money order or cash under registry. ‘ We guarantee the books. If you don’t like All books clearly printed on good paper, Pocket size; bound in heavy cover paper. More sent, add 10c for exchange. them, we'll refund your money. 64 to 160 pages each. If personal check is the library. return it. orders. than 6,000,000 of these books hav Get your selections | Remember the sale closes at midnight December 24. ; marked later than that hour, we reserve the right to fill at 25¢ per book or ‘Take no chances—send it NOW. Carriage charges collect on C. O. D, orders. e been sold, indicating the popularity of before this ten-cent price is withdrawn. Tf your order is post- We prepay postage on cash E. H. Julius, Pres., Appeal Publishing Company, 1021 Appeal Bldg., Girard, Kansas comicbooks.com