ediate Pages?

[Illustration: ALL A MOCKERY]

6. The Book in which the Pictures tell the Story. After you have seen
the Pictures there is no need to wrestle with the Text.

7. The Book that begins with a Murder Mystery--charming Picture of
Gray-Haired Man discovered Dead in his Library--Blood splashed all over
the Furniture--Knife of Curious Design lying on Floor.

You know at once that the most Respected and least _sus_pected Personage
in the Book committed the awful Crime, but you haven't the Heart to
Track him down and compel him to commit Suicide.

8. The Book that gets away with one Man asking another: "By Jove, who is
that Dazzling Beauty in the Box?"

The Man who asks this Question has a Name which sounds like the Title of
a Sleeping Car.

You feel instinctively that he is going to be all Mixed Up with that
Girl in the Box before Chapter XII. is reached; but who can take any
real Interest in the Love Affairs of a Man with such a Name?

9. The Book that tells all about Society and how Tough it is. Even the
Women drink Brandy and Soda, smoke Cigarettes, and Gamble. The clever
Man of the World, who says all the Killing Things, is almost as Funny as
Ally Sloper. An irritable Person, after reading nine Chapters of this
kind of High Life, would be ready to go Home and throw his Grandmother
into the Fire.

10. The dull, gray Book, or the Simple Annals of John Gardensass. A
Careful Study of American Life.

In Chapter I. he walks along the Lane, stepping first on one Foot and
then on the Other, enters a House by the Door, and sits in a four-legged
wooden Chair, looking out through a Window with Glass in it. Book
denotes careful Observation. Nothing happens until Page 150. Then John
decides to sell the Cow. In the Final Chapter he sits on a Fence and
Whittles. True Story, but What's the Use?

Why continue? The Dyspeptic said that when he wanted something really
Fresh and Original in the Line of Fiction he read the Prospectus of a
Mining Corporation.

MORAL: _Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on
Current Literature._

OTHER BOOKS _By_ GEORGE ADE

DOC' HORNE

A STORY OF THE STREETS AND TOWN, with many illustrations by John T.
McCutcheon. 16mo, cloth, $1.25.

_Seventh Thousand_

PINK MARSH

A STORY OF THE STREETS AND TOWN, with forty full-page illustrations by
John T. McCutcheon. 16mo, cloth, $1.25.

_Eighth Thousand_

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