THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 



" To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — Antony and Cleopatra 



LAST year we went through a long strike 

 in the composing room for the open 

 shop. It has not even yet been declared off, 

 though the Union was beaten by the firms 

 who fought. We still had a press-room 

 which the Union dominated. On June 7th 

 all our employees in the press-room left in 

 a body because we refused to assign as many 

 feeders to presses equipped with mechanical 

 feeders as would have been necessary if the 

 machines were laboriously fed by hand, 

 sheet by sheet. The pressmen had no 

 grievance (their pay, as well as that of the 

 feeder's, having just been increased), but they 

 struck in sympathy and demanded a restric- 

 tion of product. 



Under these circumstances we felt that 

 we had to fight to the bitter end, and we have 

 set up this sign from the cellar to the roof : 



THIS IS AN OPEN SHOP 

 First, Last and All the Time 



We have had no difficulty in finding men 

 of character and ability to take the places of 

 the strikers, but to get quality and quantity 

 from the delicate machines to which the 

 new men are unaccustomed requires time, 

 and if our magazines are a little late, and a 

 little rough for a number or two, we hope 

 our readers will bear with us. 



GARDEN AND FARMING ALMANAC 



We are trying to make a year book for 

 1908 which will really meet the need of a 

 guide, philosopher and friend for anyone 

 who is interested in the farm, the garden 

 or the country home. A good many of our 

 readers last year bought the Farming 

 Almanac, and found it valuable. Every 

 copy was sold out, and more could have been 

 disposed of. We think we know how to 

 make a book at least twice as good this year, 

 but our readers can help us greatly by 

 writing us, suggesting features for the 

 almanac, and we ask them to do so now — it 

 will soon be too late. 



THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT 



Perhaps one of the most popular features 

 of the almanac last year proved to be the 

 Inquiry Blanks at the back of the book. 

 Thousands of these were returned to us asking 

 for information on subjects of every sort, 



and they still come. This department has 

 grown to be one of our most important tasks. 

 While it is not in any way an income- 

 producing activity, it does, we hope and 

 believe, make our magazines and our estab- 

 lishment more helpful to our readers, and 

 that satisfies us. Not least among the uses 

 of the Service Department has been its advice 

 and information to investors. We have 

 many evidences that it has saved people 

 from making unwise or foolish purchases of 

 wild-cat stocks. 



THREE COMING NOVELS 



Every year, we publish two or three of 

 our best novels in the dullest part of the 

 summer. 



There are several reasons — one because 

 the books most read in summer are works of 

 fiction, and another that the time when 

 most publishers are doing little seems a good 

 time for us to gain the attention of readers. 

 This year we are putting forth three books 

 in the dog-days which we feel certain will 

 succeed. 



On July 25th, Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s 

 strikingly interesting novel "The Traitor," 

 which tells the story of the breaking up of 

 the Ku Klux Klan. The first edition is 

 50,000 copies. 



On August 1st, "The Lone Star," a novel 

 of Texas, by E. P. Lyle, Jr., whose " Missour- 

 ian" two years ago made many friends, and 

 sold several editions. 



On August 15th, "To Him That Hath," 

 a novel of life among the workers in New 

 York, by Mr. LeRoy Scott, author of "The 

 Walking Delegate," whose Union story was 

 a revelation to many. The new book is a 

 great advance on the first, which was a 

 success. 



miss Glasgow's new novel 



It is good news to be able to promise a new 

 novel by Miss Glasgow early in the new year. 

 It will be called "The Beaten Road.'-' The 

 scene is laid in the South, and in power and 

 feeling it will be, to our thinking, the best of 

 the author's novels, if we may judge from 

 the reading of the chief part of the manuscript. 



MRS. SETON'S "NIMROD'S WIFE" 



May we recommend for August reading 

 Mrs. Seton's charming book about a woman's 



life in the wilds of our own land. A 

 fresh and invigorating volume, interestingly 

 and abundantly illustrated by the writer's 

 husband, Ernest Thompson Seton, and 

 Walter King Stone. $1.92 postpaid. 



A NEW CATALOGUE 

 For some months, we have been preparing 

 a new catalogue of our book publications. 

 The old one has been revised and entirely 

 reset, and a full descriptive catalogue of all 

 our books is ready to be sent to anyone 

 interested. The special reason for making 

 this expensive catalogue is to bring to the 



attention of our friends good and valuable 

 books which are not necessarily the newest. 

 In this list, one will find many books one has 

 perhaps heard of and has always meant to 

 read. The catalogues can be ordered on 

 this blank: 



DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 



New York City. 

 Please send me your new descriptive cata- 

 logue. 



