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ADVENTURE 1 — i ty i SS ar AO SS a Sie Te =< ee Nowhere is the life of a certain class of men and women more feverish, nowhere is the thirst for pleasure or gold more intense, than in Paris @, Morals, betief, and even sentiment are shriveled up, as in a furnace, by the ff e Girl wr =e SSS et CEE rams ecere'| eeeeraceeer ete SS love becomes only ¥ desire, and desire ff . en ern turns to hate. B N the pazllion ccna @’ amour, guarded by bloodhounds f é C J in the wall- ed garden of a house of THINK OF READING THESE ENTRANCING VOLUMES BY J ; : . B \ L 7 \ C mystery in Paris, belonging to a Spaniard, Don Hijos, Marquis de San Réal, was a perfume-laden boudoir luxuriously furnished in white, rose, THE COLUSSUs OF LITERATURE ° <a and gold; with roses every- Cousin BETTE 2 volumes . Girl With the Golden Eyes ts Sx . Coven Pons from which no sound could HisToRY OF THE THIRTEEN escape: one where even herragus, Chief Dévorant Pe ; . La Duchesse de Langeats shrieks would be of no CasAR BIROTTEAU ‘Tae Cova, Servxee more avail than in the Gaudissart L/ : 9: yaaa A Prinee of Bohewia middle of the Sahara. SPLENDORS AND MISERIES 27 ‘THE Housk or NuCINGEN Here the story of Lhe Lhe Secrets of La Princesse Girl with the Golden eyes de Cadignan eerg Sarrvrasine facino Cane a story of passion; jealousy, A Man of Business . vay crea Involuntary Comedians per fidy, and vengeance Patty BourGsors 2 vols. never equalled in all liter- Yours is far and away the best ature, reaches its climax. translation there is of Balzac. i : Beye GrorGE W, VANDERBILT. It isa strange story of One (Mr. Vanderbilt bought four of the many mysterious ets of the original edition . seis of the ¢ °”) undercurrents of life in Paris, but it is only one of over a score of inamite variety told in the famous of CENCS De La Ne Deannnn € you c h t The only version which oon - For the First Time Completely Translated into English ; Theonly EF. nglish translation tha that is in the original. is complete. Bookman, NV. Y- In SCENES OF PARISIAN LIFE Bauzac shows us a world He painted men and women as he found them, with a strength throbbing with life, in which the conflict for wealth and power, the and fearlessness unequal'ed by any other author. He has been quest for love and the pursuit of pleasure, the triumphs and the de- _ called the anatomist of passion and the vivisector of the human feats of life, and every aspect of joy, sorrow, goodness, and sin are heart; he dared to penetrate into the arcana of emotions almost found. The great genius shows us @ true picture of the life of Paris, too terrible for literature to touch, but he has done so as a serious: hiding nothing, setting forth all with realistic fidelity to truth. observer of human society. If, sitting in your arm-chair, you could invite to your side this man who knew Paris better than any who: ever lived, and listen to his enchanting tales of the life there, you would, of course, do so. Many others have. Well: do not think that this a pleasure that only the rich may enjoy. He is at your command now, for you may have his wonderful tales, printed from the same plates as the original edition published at $165 00, for less than the cost of ordinary novels. Not to know Balzac’s novels is to confess oneself out of touch w vith the world, Readers who take up one of his stories for the first time are surprised to find how infinitely superior they are to anything they have ever read. Do you know them? If not, why not have a set sent to see for yourself? 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PARISIAN LIFE by Honoré de Balzac, Atlantic Monthly. bound in black cloth. I will return the set in Balzac was more than moral, He was religious. 5 days or send you ¢1 as a first payment and The Methodist Review. || $2.a month for g months. Canada add one $2 A monumental undertaking admirably executed. payment, soreign $21 cash with order. Public Ledger, Philadelphia. Ady. 12-€-2€ Text is perfecy and its ilinsreations represent the best Na in modern French art. Will take its place as the standard edition of the great French novelist. Address Evening Transcript, Boston. Published twice a month to November, three times a month in December, by The Butterick ADVENTURE Publishing Company, Butterick Building, New York, N. Y. Yearly subscription $4.00 in Volume 1 60 advance; single copy 25 cents. Entered as second-class matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office a Dec 8th, 1926 at New York, N. Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Number COnmicboooks. CO