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He could not know, standing there in his bare 

 feet and his rough clothes, with his little schooling, 

 that kings would do him honor when he died, and 

 that all men who read would mourn a friend. 



He could not dream that one day •■^.- 

 his work would stand in Chinese, in 

 Russian, in many languages he could 

 not read — and from humble doorman 



to proudest emperor, all would be glad- -iir.-.-v 



dened at his coming. 



He could not know that through it all he would remain as 

 simple, as democratic, as he was that day as a boy on the 



Mississippi 



FrontUplM« of 

 •'The lion's Life o 



MARK TWAIN ^^^^ 



He made us laugh, so that 

 we had not time to see that his 

 style was sublime, that he was 

 biblical in simplicity, that he 

 was to America another Lin- 

 coln in spirit. 



To us, to everyone in the 

 United States, he was just 

 Mark Twain — well-beloved, 

 one of ourselves, one to laugh 

 with, one to go to for cheer, 

 one to go to for sane, pointed 

 views. Now he is gone, the 

 trenchant pen is still. But 

 his joyous spirit is'still with us. 

 Mark Twain's smile will live 

 forever. Hislaughterisetemal. 



He Wu a Great Man; So 

 His Work* are Great 



The road ahead of that boy 

 on the river bank was a hard 

 one. Before " Mark Twain." 

 a distinguished, white-haired 

 man. and the King of England 

 walked and talked together, 

 his path was set with troubles 

 that would have broken a 

 weaker spirit. It was a truly 

 American story — a small be- 

 ginning — little schooling — 



hard work — disaster — good 

 humor — ^and final, shining, 

 astounding success. 



He fought with poverty, he 

 fought with disaster, he lost 

 those dearest to him. But he 

 won. 



Because he was of high and 

 brave intellect, because he 

 had humor as deep and as tme 

 as the human heart, and be- 

 cause he had struggled with 

 life, he was a great man. So 

 his works are great. 



As Children W« Ured Him 



They say that children 

 know the inwardness of things. 

 A child knows the heart of a 

 man We as children instinc- 

 tively knew Mark Twa.m was 

 so much greater, so much 

 truer than anybody else that 

 there was no one to compare 

 him with. 



Now grown up, we know 

 the reason why He had the 

 heart of a child: he had the 

 style of a master, he Bad a. 

 character of rare beauty. 



Why This Half Price Sale Must Stop 



Mtrk Twmln wu)t«<l everyone In Amerioo to own » set ol bU 

 bookt. So one of the loat things he uked us wt* tb« we make » 

 Mt kt to low a prloe that overdone ought own H. 



Re said. "Don't make fine editions. Don't tn&ke Mltloneto 

 Mil for «200 ftnd |300 rdiI 11000. Make gwxf books, bookt good 

 to look at and ea«j to r«»d, and make their price low.' 



So we have made this srt. And up to now we were able to sell 

 IT tblB low price. But a thing haa happened that Mark. Twain 

 cwuld not foresee. 



Paper and Ink Go Up 



Before tite war we had a oontraet prloe for paper. But ,^„„ 

 «ie pHoe of paper boa gone up. It haa almost doubled In prleow 

 Eren the prloe of Ink bae gone up. So H ts Impoaslble to ^*^^ 

 My more seta and lell thetn at this low price. 



The last of the edition la In sight. Thei» wllj nerer again be ft 

 60t of Mark Twain at the present price. 



Remember that H ia becaufle ilark Twain saorlfleed some of 

 hlfl rojaltiee that you can have a Bet at thU prloe at alL Take 

 adTantage of that kindneDS.tbat was ao oharacterlstlo of him. 



K-'l«°" j*\' """'.f " *•?*" ^°: Ran'ember. never again wUI a set of Mark Twain 



be offered at such a price as th... When this edition is gone thero will be no mora. 



Send the coupon herewith at once. 



The Great American 

 He was A nurican. He had 

 the idealism of America — the 

 humor, the kindliness, the 

 reaching toward a bigger 

 thing, the simplicity. In 

 work we find all things, from 

 the ridiculous in "Huckle- 

 berry Finn" to the sublime of 

 "Joan of Arc," — the most 

 spiritual book that was ever 

 written in the English lan- 

 guage, of serene and lovely 

 beauty as lofty as Joan her- 

 self. A man who could write 

 two such books as "HuckJe- 

 benrj^ Finn" and "Joan of 

 Arc ' was sublime in power. 

 His youth and his laughter 

 are eternal: his~ genius will 

 nevei die. 



FORESTRY 



I Harper & Brothers 



New York 



I Bend me, all oharges prepaal^, a 

 " 0et of Mark Twalo'a works lo t6 



ITOIumeSt Illustrated, bound la* 

 handsome green cloth, stamped la 

 I gold, gold tops and deckled edges. 

 II It not satisfactory, I wU) return 

 them at your expense. Otherwise 

 , I win send you 11.00 wHhIa 6 davs. 

 . and 12.00 a month for 18 mootns. 



