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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1913 



"LADDIE" 



IF WE confess each month to renewed 

 enthusiasm about Mrs. Porter's new 

 novel, "Laddie," we hope that our 

 readers will bear with us. It is such a genuine 

 fresh and honest transcript of the life of a 

 wholesome Middle West family in the days 

 when Indiana perhaps held more romantic 

 interest than it does to-day, that we feel sure 

 it will give pleasure to the host of readers 

 Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter has gathered about 

 her. The people whom Mrs. Porter describes 

 are the people who made our country a good 

 place to live in, and they are worth while 

 reading about. 



We printed 150,000 copies, and three weeks 

 before publication we had to order paper for 

 25,000 more. 



JOSEPH CONRAD 



There are comparatively few authors 

 whose work all other authors admire. Joseph 

 Conrad is recognized and accepted as a 

 master of English, notwithstanding that he 

 is a Pole. Every day his fame is extending, 

 more people are learning to read and appreci- 

 ate him, and if you want a good book to be- 

 gin on, read the new volume, " 'Twixt Land 

 and Sea." 



His other books published by us are: 

 "Falk," "Lord Jim," "Romance" (written 

 with Ford Madox Hueffer), "The Point of 

 Honor," "Youth," besides excellent volumes 

 issued by other publishers. 



THE REGAL LILY 



Among the flowers in the Country Life Press 

 gardens this summer there was one plant in 

 particular, a lily, that was the centre of attrac- 

 tion: the Regal lily, which comes from China. 

 Indeed most of our every-day favorites are 

 Chinese — the spireas, the forsythias, the 

 hydrangeas, Memorial rose, and also a goodly 

 number of things which have come to us from 

 Japan were originally taken from China. The 

 interest in new Chinese plants lies in the fact 

 of the climatic parallels of our country and 

 Western China. 



This new lily is but one of over 1 , 100 new spe- 

 cies of plants recently discovered and brought 



into cultivation by Mr. E. H. Wilson, now 

 connected with the Arnold Arboretum of 

 Boston. He has travelled farther into Western 

 China than any other white man and pushed 

 beyond the limits of Fortune and Maries ; He 

 has brought back new plants the likes of which 

 those pioneers never even imagined. We 

 cannot tell more about Mr. Wilson here; we 



are watching some of his plants grow in our 

 gardens, and we are publishing his book, "A 

 Naturalist in Western China," in which he 

 gives his own versions of his travels into this 

 wonderfully rich country. 



Not only to the plant lover but to the 

 mineralogist and to those interested in any 

 branch of natural history, this book of Mr. 

 Wilson makes its appeal. It is a personal, 

 first hand account of things as he saw them — 

 and things which no other white man has 

 ever seen. 



FALL BOOKS 



Following out our slogan, "Fewer and 

 Better Books," we announce for this fall even 

 fewer titles than last year. 



In these days, when 11,000 books are issued 

 each year, it becomes a matter of energy and 

 skill to get the public's attention to a new book 

 and we have found by painful experience that 

 one can't take efficient care of a large number 

 of titles: so we pick the books with which 

 we think we can succeed, put all our force 



and care behind these, and hope that the day 

 will come when dealers and readers can say 

 that if a book is issued by Doubleday, Page & 

 Company, it has a reason for existence and 

 can be safely bought. 



This is our publication list, without descrip- 

 tions or comment. Advertisements depicting 

 the merit of these volumes will be found else- 

 where in our magazines. 



FOR PUBLICATION SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1913 



The Book of Useful Plants 

 Jack Chanty. A novel 

 The Confessions of Arsene 



Lupin 

 African Camp Fires 

 Out of the Dark 

 The Spotted Panther. A 



South Sea tale 

 Refractory Husbands 



By Julia Ellen Rogers 

 By Hulbert Footner 



By Maurice Leblanc 

 By Stewart Edw. White 

 By Helen Keller 



By James F. Dwyer 



By Mary Stewart Cutting 



FOR PUBLICATION OCTOBER 4TH 



Gold, A Tale of California By Stewart Edw. White 

 The Man Between. A novel By Walter Archer Frost 

 Children's Book of Christmas 



Stories Edited by Asa Don Dick- 



inson and Ada M. 

 Skinner 

 The Best Stories in the World, Thomas L. Masson, Edi- 

 tor 

 The Knapp Method of Grow- 



ing Cotton 



By H. E. Savely and W. 

 B. Mercier 



Carlo. A book of new char- 

 acteristics 



Threshold of Science Series: 

 Volume I, Zoology 



War and Waste 



Boy Scout Hike Book 



The Mixing. The Tale of a 



Neighborhood Association By Bouck White 



By A. B. Frost 



By E. Brucker 



By David Starr Jordan 



By Edward Cave 



FOR PUBLICATION OCTOBER 23D 



In Search of a Husband 

 The Golden Barrier. A novel 



The Friendly Road 



In Thackeray's London 

 Folk of the Woods 

 Under the Christmas Stars 

 A Son of the Hills 



Wild Animals at Home 



The Lovely Lady. A short 



novel 

 The Vanishing Race 



By Corra Harris 



By Agnes and Egerton 



Castle 

 By David Grayson, 



Author of " Adventures 



in Friendship." 

 By F. Hopkinson Smith 

 By LuciusjCrocker Pardee 

 By Grace S. Richmond 

 By Harriet T. Comstock, 



Author of "Joyce of 



the North Woods." 

 By Ernest Thompson 



Seton 



By Mary Austin 

 By Joseph K. Dixon 



