The Argosy, October 1906 — page 226: what you’re looking at

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THE ARGOSY—ADVERTISING SECTION. The Best os that man has spoken and the best that man has written * % While they last we are going to give away eighteen (18) sets of the most interesting Library of Literature ever published. This is af important announcement—read carefully—it will interest you. E have on hand eighteen (18) sets of one of the best sets of books ever published—The Library of Oratory—fifteen magnificent volumes, beautifully illustrated, and artistically and durably bound in combination art cloths, with full gold backs like illustration below, the regular price of which is $87.50. These 18 sets are a remainder of an edition and we have decided to dispose of them for about half price, and to insure their quick sale to accept small monthly payments and to give away with each of these 18 sets of the Library of Oratory one complete set of the most famous of all libraries of literature, Knight’s Library of ‘‘ Half Hours with the Best Authors,” in six attractive volumes bound in combination art cloth, full gold backs and gold tops, worth $12.00 per set. ; It contains reading for every mood of one’s mind and the best the world has produced. Every question that has aided humanity in its progress during the past 2,500 years is here, presented by the master minds of the world. WHO would not desire to hear the following Orators and their Orations if it were possible The Library of Oratory is a most interesting set of books. Some of the Many Orators Represented Pericles Socrates Zischines Demosthenes Catiline Cicero Czesar Cato Luther Cranmer John Knox John Pym Cromwell Fenelon Cotton Mather Massillon Robert Walpole Lord Chesterfield John Wesley Benjamin Franklin Samuel Adams Edmund Burke George Washington John Adams Patrick Henry John Hancock Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson Josiah Quincy Marat John Jay Mirabeau James Madison Red Jacket Carnot Daniel Webster James Monroe Robespierre William Pitt Danton ’ Moreau Andrew Jackson De Witt Clinton Duke of Wellington Napoleon Tecumseh Daniel O’Connell Henry Clay Robert Emmet Abraham J.incoln Robert C. Winthrop Hannibal Hamlin Count Cavour Cassius M. Clay John Bright Wendell Phillips Charles Sumner Horace Greeley Wm. M. Thackeray Garibaldi Jefferson Davis Napoleon III Oliver W. Holmes Gladstone Victor Hugo Kossuth Lord Beaconsfield John Brown George Bancroft Wm. Henry Seward Joseph Chamberlain John Morley Lord Rosebery Emile Zola Chas. H. Parkhurst Henry Cabot Lodge Joseph H. Choat . Mark Twain John Hay .- ‘ Theodore Roosevelt f ous branches of Pericles—** Funeral Oration.’’ Demosthenes—‘**Oration on the Crown.’’ ; Cicero—‘‘ Oration Against Catiline.”’ Ceesar—* Speech in the Roman Senate on the Conspiracy of Catiline.”’ Massillon—‘‘ The Curse of a Malignant Tongue.”’ Garibaldi—‘‘ Speech to His Soldiers.”’ Daniel O’Connell—*‘ Ireland Worth Dying For.” Robert Emmet—‘* Speech When Under Sentence of Death.” Patrick Henry—‘ Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.”’ Marat—‘‘ Speech Before the National Convention.”’ Red Jacket—‘‘ Speech at Fort Stan- Wix.”’ DO NOT NEGLECT THIS OPPORTUNITY Daniel Webster—‘‘ Reply to Hayne.”’ Robespierre —‘‘ Against Granting the King a Trial.”’ Danton—‘*‘ To Dare, to Dare Again, Al- ways to Dare.’’ Moreau—** Speech in His Own De- fence.” Napoleon—'*‘ Farewell to the Old Guard.”’ Abraham Lincoln—* First Inaugural.” Henry Ward Beecher— Effect of the » Death of Lincoln.” Emile Zola—** Appeal for Dreyfus.”’ Theodore Roosevelt—‘‘A Nation of Pioneers.”’ Prince Bismarck—‘*‘A Plea for Im- perial Armament.”’ George Washington—* First Inaugural Address.”’ You take no risk. We will send both sets for examination, charges prepaid. If they are not satisfactory, return them at our expense. Could anything be fairer ? We know you will keep the books and pay the small price we ask for them cheerfully. Description of the free Knight’s ‘‘Library of Half Hours with the Best Authors.”’ This Work con- tains the very best that has ever been written in the vari- literature. The best in science, philoso- phy, history, biogra- phy, poetry, humor, travel, fiction, ora- tory and essays. In fact, all the best and lasting thoughts of the world. If you accept this offer you will always have in your posses- sion two of the fine 56 and most interesting sets of books ever published. One containing THE LIBRARY OF ORA Suk an fick cn * Brander Matthews, Garland, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Carl Schurz, the best that man has spoken, the other the best that man has written, and they will cost you only a few cents a day for a few months. We guarantee this to be the greatest bargain we have ever offered. Enclosed you will find request - for-inspec- tion blank, sign and mail same promptly and secure these two grand sets of books worth $49.50 for only $1.00 after examina- tion and $1.50a month for twelve Dear Sir: months. Cut Out, Sign, and Mail Now FREE LIBRARY OFFER Request for Inspection A. L. Fow.eg, 8 Washington Place, New York, N. Y. You may send me, all charges prepaid upon inspec- tion, “The Library of Oratory,” 15 volumes, size 734x514 inches, beautifully illustrated, bound in combination Art Cloths, red backs These two sets of books should be in every home; this is your oppor=- tunity. Remem- ber, one costs you only about half- price and the other Jf name............... is absolutely free - if you request at ell once. Arg. Oct., ’06 and green sides, with gold back stamping, the most attractive library binding ever made; also one set of Knight’s “ Library, of Half Hours with the Best Authors,” six beautiful volumes. After examining the books, if I decide to keep them, I will pay you for “The Library of Oratory’ only (you to present me with Knight’s “Library of Half Hours with the Best Authors ’’), $1.00 after examination and $1.50 a month for 12 months. amination, I decide not to keep “The Library of Oratory ’’ I wil) send both sets of books to you, all charges collect, if, after ex- eee wr eer seme ee ees esse ess ee ee eee eeee ee eeseeaesessE Cem erseseaes ar est + SESE SES EEE OSH HSHHE HEHEHE EHH HEM Some of the Many Writers J Represented 7 Dickens Bacon Thackeray | Cooper Scott Spencer Eliot Words- Irving worth Swift Milton Johnson Lytton Dante Byron Shelley Dryden Goldsmith | Hope Verne Cowper Fielding Austen Locke Smollett Webster Addison Chalmers Pope Latimer Butler Ve'planck | Landor Jefferson Hume TORY ANCIENT and MODERN 15 magnificent volumes of the choicest orations that With brilliant, forceful essays and biographies on the orators by such writers as Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lyman Abbott, Henry James, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle Macaulay Longfellow Southey Shakes- peare Burton Audubon Lamb Gibbon Bancroft Cervantes ‘Hallam Defoe DeQuincey Cavendish Sheridan Keats Dampier Franklin Do not fail to cut out | coupon and mail to-day In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention THE ARGOSY. 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