THE BEST KNOWN 
BOY IN THE WORLD 
From China to New York, and 
around the world the other way, 
to London, there is one boy who 
is known and loved above all others 
—and that boy is Tom Sawyer. 
In him each man knows the image of 
his own boyhood, of the dreams and its 
restlessness, and its wildness, and its mis¬ 
chief, and vague striving to be decent, 
and ambition. 
In Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer each man 
sees the renewal of his own youth. In 
Tom Sawyer each woman sees the son 
she loves. And why not, for Tom 
Sawyer is really the story of Mark Twain’s 
own boyhood. 
The Chinese mandarin chuckles over 
that classic incident where Tom made 
the other boys pay him for doing his 
work. The little Russian trembles on 
the dark hillside where he overhears 
Indian Joe plotting to rob the widow. 
The German in his trench tunnel, with 
death all about him, catches his breath 
as he reads of Tom and little Becky 
alone in the tunnel. 
Wherever men read, they shiver with 
Tom in that graveyard that fearful mid¬ 
night when, by a new made grave, he saw 
a man murdered. 
And each man who reads knows his own 
mother in Aunt Polly, and thinks how 
he too must have been a trying child; 
and he wishes he had a chance to do it 
all over again and make it up to a long- 
suffering and patient mother. 
In Tom Sawyer there is universal boy¬ 
hood, there is laughter and tears. But 
there is something bigger. Not only 
those things which are difficult and ab¬ 
struse are literature. A thing so joyous, 
so laughable as Tom Sawyer must be 
literature—and the man who wrote it is 
one of the most universal in his appeal 
of the whole Western Hemisphere. 
MARK TWAIN 
Another Lincoln in Spirit 
Mark Twain made us laugh, so that we had 
no time to see that his style was sublime, 
that he was almost biblical in simplicity, 
that he was to America another Lincoln 
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. His 
laughter is eternal. 
In his work we find all things, from the ridic¬ 
ulous in “Huckleberry Finn” to the sublime 
of “Joan of Arc”—that spiritual book of 
serene and lovely beauty. A man who could 
write two such books as “Huckleberry Finn” 
and “Joan of Arc” was sublime in power. 
All that is lovable and daring—that is spec¬ 
tacular in American life, he has expressed. 
All that is impatient with oppression; but 
above all, that intangible something that 
makes America what it is, the world finds in 
Mark Twain. He is our Mark Twain. He 
is the great American. Europe so recognizes 
him. Asia so knows him. 
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As long as the present supply of sets lasts, 
you may have the low price. When that 
is exhausted the price goes up. 
Every American must have a set of Mark 
Twain. Get yours now. If you wait, you 
will pay more. Never again will you be able 
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