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PUBLISHERS NOTICES. 



Do You Know "Children's Gardens?" 

 You have heard of children's gar- 

 dens, and perhaps have thought that 

 they are any sort of gardens made by 

 any kind of children in any haphazard 

 way but there is a right way and a 

 wrong way; there is art in it. Write 

 Henry Griscom Parsons, 29 West 

 Fifty-sixth Street, New York City, 

 for particulars of the road to the right 

 way. 



For High Grade Collies. 



If there is a more graceful, good- 

 natured and attractive breed of dogs 

 than the right strain of collie, then I 

 do not know what it is. If there is a 

 better place to buy it than of William 

 C. Hunter, Chambersburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, then I don't know where it is. 

 Send to him for particulars — and get 

 the puppy. 



The Price of Subscription. 

 At the beginning of Vol. II the sub- 

 scription price of The Guide to 

 Nature was reduced from one dollar 

 and fifty ($1.50) cents to one ($1.00) 

 dollar; the charge was made to bring 

 in more money, not less ; to reach more 

 people, not the same number. The 

 magazine cannot be produced, even at 

 the mere cost of mechanical work, for 

 one ($1.00) dollar a year unless the 

 subscription list is, as was stated, more 

 than doubled. It was taken for grant- 

 ed from the many complimentary 

 letters that were received that all our 

 subscribers were pleased and would 

 renew at one dollar and fifty ($1.50) 

 cents. To make it easy to secure 

 another subscription, the price for two 

 sent at the same time was only twenty- 

 five cents (25c) cents additional ; that 

 is, two volumes for one dollar and 

 seventy-five ($1.75) cents and addition- 

 al subscriptions at seventy-five (75c) 

 cents each per volume. Most of our 

 subscribers have understood this ar- 

 rangement but some have sent onlv 



the dollar. On that basis the magazine 

 cannot keep its present high standard. 

 Please secure and send additional sub- 

 scriptions. Only a little effort means 

 much for the good of the cause. 



Delay in Publication. 



We admit that we are one month 

 behind time. It should be the June 

 number that is now published. This 

 delay is due primarily to complications 

 in the printing office that we are prom- 

 ised will be remedied soon, and second- 

 arily to the great disadvantages under 

 which the editorial work has been done 

 since preparations to move working 

 buildings and contents were com- 

 menced about the middle of February. 



With the printing office blocked — 

 in troubles of their own — at several in- 

 tervals, on all work, on The Guide to 

 Nature; with books and apparatus 

 stored in a barn and other places for 

 the past two months; with editorial 

 and stenographic work done in a small 

 temporary office ; with, well, but what 

 is the use of reciting to you further 

 troubles ! We think enough has been 

 said to merit your kind forbearance in 

 the delavs. 



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Flope is dawning. The printers have 

 promised to remove obstacles and in- 

 formation comes, as these lines are 

 written, that the new, portable, office 

 building has been shipped from the 

 factory. 



The working laboratory and other 

 buildings have gradually evolved order 

 out of chaos. 



Cheer up ! The sun will shine yet 

 and we will forget that it was cloudy. 



We like your magazine very much indeed. 

 -F. G. Kenesson. 



"The Guide to Nature" is a pleasure and 

 an inspiration. — Sister M. Berenice. 



Every paragraph in your monthly will be 

 read with enthusiasm. — Amelia H. Benja- 

 min. 



