September, 1913 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



77 



THE present season of publishing endeavor, Fall, 

 1913, marks a new step for Doubleday, Page 

 & Company in their effort to realize the ideal 

 of "Fewer and Better Books." The number of vol- 

 umes scheduled for this Fall is less by six than the 

 corresponding list last year, and less by ten than 

 that two years ago. This is a gradual progression 

 in the right direction. We grow more discrimi- 

 nating as we go and plan to make the list even 

 smaller than it is. Needless to say the standard of 

 merit must rise with such elimination and readers 

 may depend on it that when a book is published by 

 Doubleday, Page & Company, there is a real reason 

 for its existence. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN 

 War and Waste 



Here Dr. Jordan discusses and proves the interest of "big busi- 

 ness" in war as a financial enterprise and shows what a tremendous 

 waste not only in actual money but in character and national vitality 

 results from a war in general. For, it is not the weaklings that are 

 lost but the able-bodied and the men of brains, so that to the weak- 

 lings is left the task of breeding succeeding generations. Net $1.25. 

 Ready October 4th. 



HELEN KELLER 

 Out of the Dark 



Here is another remarkable book from this truly remarkable 

 woman comparable in interest to her inspiring "Story of My Life." 

 In "Out of the Dark" Miss Keller discusses some of the questions 

 nearest her heart — blindness and its prevention, the social con- 

 dition of women, our present-day economic condition. In whatever 

 she writes, you feel the refreshing clearness of her vision. Portrait 

 Frontispiece. Net $1.00. Ready September 20th. 



MAURICE LEBLANC 



The Confessions of Arsene Lupin 



Arsene Lupin confesses! That alone is extraordinary enough. 

 But the crimes to which he confesses are yet more extraordinary. 

 He solved the Repstein murder case, for which 100,000 francs reward 

 was offered and as quickly withdrawn. He stole the Sparmiento 

 tapestries under the very nose of the police. It was he — but you 

 will have to read the stories yourself to see all he did. Suffice it to 

 say that they solve the most baffling cases the police of Europe have 

 ever had to deal with. Illustrated. Net $1.25. Ready Septem- 

 ber 20th. 



THOMAS L. MASSON 



The Best Stories in theWorld 



Mr. Masson has been managing editor of Life for twenty years. 

 During that time practically all the wit and humor of the world has 

 passed under his eye. These stories have been boiled down to four 

 hundred-odd, which he says represent the cream. He ought to know. 

 Net $1.00. Ready October 4th. 



FREDERIC MATHEWS 



Taxation and the Distribution of Wealth 



How has taxation from the beginning of time influenced our 

 morals, our social life, our politics, our happiness in life? That is a 

 big question and Mr. Mathews's answer to it is a most enlightening 

 commentary on the history of civilization. Net $2.50. Ready 

 October 4th. 



JULIA ELLEN ROGERS 

 The Book of Useful Plants 



Miss Rogers has here given us in a most entertaining way the 

 story of many every-day vegetables and plants. Teachers of nature 

 study and agriculture will welcome such a simple and at the same 

 time accurate guide book. Illustrated. Net $1.10. Ready Septem- 

 ber 20th. 



H. E. SAVELY and W. B. MERCIER 

 The Knapp Method of Growing Cotton 



By using the Knapp method, two bales of cotton are grown 

 where one grew before. It has been adopted by The Farmers Co- 

 operative Demonstration Work, an organization of many thousand 

 members, and with it their success has been tremendous. The present 

 work explains the Knapp method in detail. Illustrated. Net $1.00. 

 Ready October 4th. 



BOUCK WHITE 



The Mixing: What the Hillport Neighbors Did 



How a somnolent and degraded village was regenerated and 

 converted into leading a better life, by a few enterprising and public- 

 spirited "city-folks," the summer colony of the place. You will 

 find it impossible not to compare your own town with HiMport, and 

 ask yourself if you are doing all you can for your community. Net 

 $1.20. Ready October 4th. 



STEWART EDWARD WHITE 

 African Camp Fires 



A new volume by Mr. White describing his African exploiations. 

 Like "The Land of Footprints" it is not a story of his own prowess, 

 though he has shot animals that few white men have ever seen, but 

 it is full of interesting people and vivid descriptions of the country. 

 Here you see and feel the real Africa. Illustrated. Net $1.50. Ready 

 September 20th. 



STEWART EDWARD WHITE 

 Gold 



It's the epic of '49 — that time when the whole country went 

 mad, when the book-keeper left his stool, the young farmer his plow 

 to go, he knew but vaguely where, to make a fortune. Stewart 

 Edward White draws you fascinated along with his little company 

 of four who set put from New York for Panama, and thence to fortune, 

 as they fondly hoped. A stirring romance of one of the most inter- 

 esting times in our history. Illustrated. Net Si. 35. Ready Octo- 

 ber 4th. 



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