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The Fiction of the @utdoors 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
The importance of the announcement that we have taken over from the McClure 
Company the books of Stewart Edward White can best be appreciated by those 
who know Mr. White’s stories, and their name is legion. 
writer of American outdoor fiction, and it is with great pleasure that we introduce his 
books to the readers of The Garden Magazine who are not yet acquainted with them. 
The Silent Places 
The stury of a man hunt. The trail 
leads far to the north, beyond the Arctic 
Circle. Eiehth Edition. Illustrations in 
colors, $1.50. 
The Westerners 
A story of frontier life and the advance 
of civilization in the West. ‘‘The thing is 
vital.”? Chicago Record-Herald. Sixth 
Edition, $1.50. 
Grace Gallatin Seton 
Nimrod’s Wife 
An exceedingly entertaining account of 
Mrs. Seton’s trips with her distinguished 
artist-author husband, and a suggestive 
guide to the thousands of women who 
find pleasure in out-of-door life. Vez, 
$7.75. (Postage gc.) 
A Woman Tenderfoot 
A book on outdoor life which also con- 
tains specific advice on the subject of 
camping dress and outfit for women. 
Itlustrated. $2.00. 
Ernest Thompson Seton 
Two Little Savages 
The story of two boys who lived just 
the sort of out-of-door life that boys love 
to think about. This is one of the best 
books ever conceived for boys. 300 
pictures by the author. Net, $7.75. 
(Postage 18c.) 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 133 East 16th Street, 
Any of these books will be sent on approval with privilege of five days’ 
L. S. & S. “HORICUM” Tease ae) S: 
San Fose Scale on a Pear 
LIME, 
We aim to kill scale and not trees. 
plagues of Egypt. 
The Blazed Trail 
timber-lands. 
New Illustrations, gilt top, $1.50. 
Conjuror’s House 
A stirring love-story, thescene of which 
is laid in the territory of the despotic 
Hudson Bay Company. Second Editzon. 
Illustrations, $7.25. 
The Claim Jumpers 
A romance of a western mine camp, and 
the making of a young Boston man. 
Sixth Edition, $7.50. 
The successor to ““The Blazed Trail”— 
glowing story of the lumber country with its qualities of 
permanence that placed its predecessor among the few 
classics of American fiction. 
iWlustrations by Wyeth and Underwood, $2.50. 
_A beautiful new edition of this clas- 
sic story of the great Northwestern 
Twenty-first Edition. 
Mr. White is our foremost 
Stewart Edward White 
The Riverman 
a fine and 
Fourth Edition. 4 
“A prose epic, in every line of which rings the axe of the 
forester, the cry of the pile-driver and the roar of the free waters. 
An impelling and inspiring book, clean and clear and sweet.” 
New York American 
Arizona Nights 
The epic of the cowboy—fascinating 
stories that are full of the atmosphere 
of the Arizona desert. J/lustrations 
zn colors, $1.50. 
The Mystery 
(With Samuel Hopkins Adams.) Not 
since ‘“Treasure Island’’ has there ap- 
peared a story of straight adventure and 
awesome mystery so tremendously fas- 
cinating as ‘The Mystery.” Thzrd 
Edition, 16 Illustrations, $1.50, 
Blazed Trail Stories 
A book of characteristic tales of the 
lumbering regions. Third Edition. Illus- 
trations, $1.50. 
.G. B. Lancaster 
The Spur 
“It is as fierce as the New Zealand 
sun, and arid as the sheep-station at 
which it opens.’’—Detroit Free Press. 
$7.50. 
Sons o’ Men 
The tales of the New Zealand sheep 
shearers and cattlemen, fuli of the zest of 
life’s hardships, full of the terror of the 
wilderness solitude. $7.50. 
The Tracks We Tread 
A compelling narrative which is as 
virile as the country and life it depicts, by 
a genius in whose writings the conven- 
tionalities of civilization are unknown. 
$7.50. 
J P. Mowbray 
A Journey to Nature 
The narrative of how a business man 
became acquainted with Nature for the 
first time, and of the delicate romance 
that crept into this primitive life. Z/aho- 
rately decorated. Net, $1.50 (postage 4c.) 
The Making of a Country 
Home 
For the thousands of city dwellers who 
have dreamed of having a country home, 
this book will be found indispensable. 
Uniform with ‘A Journey to Nature.” 
Elaborately decorated. Net, $1.50 (post- 
age I4c.) 
Two books by Eleanor Gates that remain popular 
The Plow-Woman 
A romance of frontier life in South Da- 
kota. ‘Transports its readers to the prai- 
ries. Here may be found the great mys- 
tery of the plains, the fascination and the 
freedom of the untamed West.” JZdwau- 
kee Sentinel. 
Cloth, $1.50 
Cupid: The Cow-Punch 
A spirited and refreshing Western ro- 
mance. ‘‘Eleanor Gates has gained her suc- 
cess by leaps and bounds, but by far the 
biggest step she has taken forward is in 
her last book, ‘Cupid: The Cow-Punch.’”’ 
San Francisco Call, 
Illustrations by Gibbs. $1.50 
New York 
examination before remitting 
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JANUARY, 1909 
Selections from the world’s quickest sellers, put 
up in slices for hurried readers 
Potted Fiction 
by 
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Contains all the fiction news that’s fit to print, 
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SIX MONTHS, by Hellinor Gryn 
THE LOST SECRET, by E. Fillips Dopenheim 
THE PINK SUIT CASE, by Louis Joseph Brassbowl 
THE STEP-DAUGHTER OF PETERSON JAY 
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