Transcriber’s Notes: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Equal signs “=” before and after a word or phrase indicate =bold= in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Antiquated spellings have been preserved. Typographical errors have been silently corrected. =“TOM WATSON”= is the one historian through whom we get the point of view of the laborer, the mechanic, the plain man, in a style that is bold, racy and unconventional. There is no other who traces so vividly the life of a _people_ from the time they were savages until they became the most polite and cultured of European nations, as he does in =THE STORY OF FRANCE= In two handsome volumes, dark red cloth, gilt tops, price $5.00. “It is well called a story, for it reads like a fascinating romance.”—_Plaindealer_, Cleveland. “A most brilliant, vigorous, human-hearted story this: so broad in its sympathies, so vigorous in its presentations, so vital, so piquant, lively and interesting. It will be read wherever the history of France interests men, which is everywhere.”—_New York Times’ Sat. Review._ =NAPOLEON= =A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, CHARACTER, STRUGGLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS.= Illustrated with Portraits and Facsimiles. Cloth, 8vo, $2.25 net. (Postage 20c.) “The Splendid Study of a Splendid Genius” is the caption of a double-column editorial mention of this book in _The New York American and Journal_ when it first appeared. The comment urged every reader of that paper to read the book and continued: “There does not live a man who will not be enlarged in his thinking processes, there does not live a boy who will not be made more ambitious by honest study of Watson’s Napoleon * * * “If you want the best obtainable, most readable, most intelligent, most genuinely American study of this great character, read Watson’s history of Napoleon.” =“TOM WATSON”= in these books does far more than make history as readable as a novel of the best sort. He tells the truth with fire and life, not only of events and causes, but of their consequences to and their influence on the great mass of people at large. They are epoch-making books which every American should read and own. Orders for the above books will be filled by TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE, 121 West 42nd Street, New York City. TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE THE MAGAZINE WITH A PURPOSE BACK OF IT =May, 1905=