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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 19 10 



Possibly because of the great space devoted 

 to our new building plans in Garden City, 

 Long Island, in this department last month, 

 the impression may be given that this project 

 is absorbing and dominating our interest these 

 days; but this is not the fact. What is fore- 

 most in our minds is to make better books and 

 magazines, and to let the world know about 

 them, and the winter of 1909-1910 has shown 

 a satisfactory advance in this respect. 



GARDEN CITY NEWS 



At the risk of making these paragraphs bear 

 close resemblance to the country weekly, we 

 shall cover under this head, from month to 

 month, the story of progress made in what we 

 have decided to call The Country Life Press. 



In the first place, the plan of the building has, 

 we think, been much improved since the sketch 

 was published, and in the June or July issue 

 we shall print a revised drawing which we 

 believe will interest our readers. The new 

 plan gives us 35,000 more feet of floor space, 

 it breaks the hard, long building line of the 

 front by moving forward the garden court from 

 the middle of the building (which concealed it 

 from the street) to the centre of the front, so that 

 the visitor passes through the garden itself in en- 

 tering the building— but of this, more next month. 



Meantime, ground has actually been broken 

 at Garden City, about twenty or twenty-five 

 houses now on the property are being torn down 

 or moved, and by the time this page is in the 

 hands of the reader we are sure great progress 

 will have been made. 



TEARING DOWN BUILDINGS AT GARDEN CITY, L. I., 

 WHERE NEW PLANT WILL BE 



Mr. Gage E. Tarbell, who conducted the 

 negotiations with the Garden City Company, 



when we bought the property, is arranging for the 

 immediate construction of about one hundred 

 or more very attractive cement houses, which 

 will be within 5 minutes' walk of the Press. 

 These, it is planned, will be finished when we 

 move. Members of the Doubleday, Page & 

 Company staff can buy, or rent, or board, as 

 suits them; or they may also live in a dozen 

 towns within a dozen miles of Garden City, 

 or get from homes in Jamaica and Brooklyn 

 in from fifteen to twenty minutes, or from New 

 York in thirty minutes. 



Mr. Walter S. Timmis, our consulting engi- 

 neer, is completing the plans for the mechanical 

 plant, including the lighting and heating which, 

 because the building is practically a house of 

 glass, requires boilers of about 300-horse power. 

 Our own well is being driven, our gardener is 

 on the grounds starting his work, and we can 

 report substantial and satisfying activity. 



BELINDA AND HER PERSONAL CONDUCT 



Perhaps 100,000 people read about Nancy 

 and her Misdemeanors, a sprightly novel by 

 Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. This was several 

 years ago. Now Mrs. Brainerd has given us a 

 new novel, "The Personal Conduct of Belinda." 

 Like Nancy, Belinda is a nice girl, as good as she 

 is nice, and with a most effervescent sense of 

 humor. In undertaking the personal con- 

 ductorship of a party of American travelers 

 who had planned to go under the guidance of a 

 lady of more advanced years, Belinda finds her 

 hands full. 



An amusing, wholesome, and interesting book, 

 and your bookseller will be glad to show it to you. 



AMERICA HAS DISCOVERED LORD LOVELAND 



Mr. and Mrs. Williamson's new book, "Lord 

 Loveland Discovers America," has been dis- 

 covered by readers in great numbers, and bids 

 fair to sell well up with "The Lightning Con- 

 ductor," although it is not a motor story. 

 Lord Loveland came to America with the idea 

 that the American young girl would stand in 

 reverence and sue for his hand. He suffers 

 a rude shock, and because of a series of mis- 

 adventures has to become a hard-working 

 man. A wholesome experience which does his 

 character a vast amount of good. 



MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S NEW BOOK 



The evident purpose of her novel is to bring 

 into strong comparison the comfortable and 



conservative life of the best class of English 

 people with the rugged life of the pioneer in a 

 new and rough country. "Lady Merton, 

 Colonist," is a most striking book and as 

 a story it is absorbing, and the end is as it 

 should be. Mr. Albert E. Sterner has made 

 the drawing for the photogravure frontispiece. 



WILD ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. R. DUGMORE 



It is a great pleasure to all of us that our 

 old associate, Mr. A. Radclyffe Dugmore, a 

 member of our staff for about ten years, is 

 making such a success with his lectures and book, 

 "Camera Adventures in the African Wilds." 







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It is much more dangerous and difficult to 

 photograph a wild animal than to shoot him, 

 as Mr. Schillings found out several years ago. 

 Mr. Dugmore succeeded beyond the greatest 

 expectations of his friends; his pictures are 

 really very remarkable: as Mr. Osborne said in 

 introducing Mr. Dugmore in his lecture at Car- 

 negie Hall, they are the most remarkable series 

 of photographs of this s: rt ever made, and will 

 be preserved as a most valuable record after 

 these great animals have gone down before civi- 

 lization and perished from the earth. 



ABOUT GARDEN BOOKS 



May we recommend these: 



"The American Flower Garden," by Neltje 

 Blanchan; net $5.00 (postage, 35 cents). 



"How to Make a Fruit Garden," by S. W. 

 Fletcher; net $2.00 (postage, 20 cents). 



"How to Make a Vegetable Garden," by E. 

 L. Fullerton; net $2.00 (postage, 20 cents). 



"How to Make a Flower Garden," by many! 

 experts; net $1.60 (postage, 20 cents). 



"The Garden Week by Week," (imported), 

 by W. P. Wright; net $2.00 (postage, 20 cents). 



Our special Garden Book Catalogue sent 

 free upon request. 



