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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1914 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

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



DON T MISS BAMBI 



That is what we are saying to everybody 

 these days and if we don't happen to have said 

 it to you before, please realize that the news 

 comes to you very late, and that you must 

 hurry up if you would have a copy of the first 

 edition. 



Yes, "Bambi" is a book, but that dwindles 

 into insignificance beside the much more im- 

 portant fact that "Bambi" is a Person! And 

 what a capable, whimsical, scintillating per- 

 son she is you won't believe until you've met 

 her. "Bambi" began by taking two publish- 

 ing houses by storm — and we were one of them. 

 It isn't easy for a book to captivate everybody 

 who reads it any more than it is easy for you 

 or me to charm each person we meet. That is 

 why we don't want you to miss "Bambi." 

 She has a train of delighted captives as long as 

 Broadway. 



We are not going to tell you what the story 

 is — merely that "Bambi" is a national heroine, 

 the blithest, most winsome girl in fiction in 

 many months. The author is Marjorie Benton 

 Cooke, and Mary Greene Blumenschein has 

 done delightful drawings in color and black- 

 and-white for the story. Two editions were 

 exhausted before publication, and the sales are 

 now more than 20,000 copies. A very attractive 

 "Bambi" booklet bound in colors and fully 

 illustrated will be sent free to any one who 

 requests it. It contains a great many interesting 

 things about the story and the experiences of 

 those who have read it. "Bambi" is now on 

 sale at all book shops ($1.25 net). 



NEW FRIENDS OE THE WORLD'S WORK 



The Country Life Press has never met with 

 such hectic experiences as the great war has 

 brought about; six times the edition of the 

 September number, which is the War Manual, 

 has been increased or put back to the press. 

 News stands that have previously sold 100 

 copies have sold 2,000 and 3,000 and at this 

 summer time of year when 100 subscriptions 

 is a good record for the morning mail, it has 

 run from 500 to 1 ,500. Of course, the gratifying 

 feature of the whole business is that we have 

 made thousands of new friends and we have, 

 we hope, done our old friends a service by 



giving them a magazine which presented 

 valuable information when it was most 

 needed. 



The October number is no less indispensable. 

 Emperor William has, in the course of his later 



From the October cover of the World's Work, which is in full 

 color and gold 



mature years, written down the most im- 

 portant facts with regard to his actions, his 

 feelings, and his general plan of life. The 

 World's Work has gathered these writings to- 

 gether, sifted them with great care in the effort 

 to give a true picture of the man, and put 

 it into print as a most impressive human 

 document. 



We have the first story of the burning of 

 Louvain, written by a staff correspondent 

 of the World's Work who was one of the two 

 trained American observers on the spot. Hero 

 are some of the other features : "How to Rer.d 

 the War News," by Frederic L. Huidekoper, the 



man who wrote the illuminating article on 

 "The Armies of Europe" in the War Manual; 

 the "Naval A B C," an explanation of the in- 

 tricacies of naval strategy ; the "Royal Relatives 

 of Europe," by George H. Merritt; and Pres- 

 ident Wilson on his foreign policy. 



The plan which we had for the November 

 number of World's Work "United States, The 

 Rebuilders " we have postponed until December 

 for several reasons which we think are good and 

 sufficient. In the first place, trade and com- 

 merce, exchange and ethics have all been thrown 

 into such a condition of confusion that it is dif- 

 ficult to get information that is trustworthy 

 until things are a little quieted down. What ap- 

 pears as a fact to-day, is apt to prove not to be 

 the fact to-morrow, and we want this number 

 to be of real service and to contain material 

 that can be relied upon and its usefulness 

 lasting. 



In November will be published the Second 

 War Manual. It will not be doing the same thing 

 over again, for since the First War Manual 

 was issued on September 1st, war experiences 

 in every branch of military science have made 

 an advance unequaled in fifty years of minor 

 struggles with armies and navies, with war- 

 fare under the sea and in the air. We shall 

 gather together the dramatic and interesting 

 facts which these great experiences have made 

 available. The illustrations will be as full as 

 before and we hope of increased interest. These 

 numbers will be saved in tens-of-thousands of 

 homes and will be referred to years hence 

 as contemporary history. 



NOVEMBER COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA 



The November Country Life in America 

 will cheer the hearts of all those who love 

 animals. Here is just the briefest mention 

 of some articles of which it is hard to resist 

 the temptation to tell a lot more: "On the 

 Trail of Justin Morgan f "Fox Terrier or 

 Something," Booth Tarkington's confession 

 of his experience with a gift dog; "The Fun 

 of Fax: cy Pigeons, ' ' by Henry Wysham Lanier ; 

 "The Dairy Breeds in America" — a sym- 

 posium; "Modern Tendencies in Farm Build- 

 ings," by Alfred Hopkins; "Raising Beef in 

 the East," by Edward Vining. 



