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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1909 



A Great Fall List 



The following is beyond any doubt the best list of books ever issued by us within a single season. In addition to the ex- 

 cellent books by new authors we take pride in announcing new titles by such well-known writers as E. F. Benson, Myra 

 Kelly, Will Irwin, Grace S. Richmond, E. Nesbit, Mary Stewart Cutting, Josef Hofmann, W. S. Rainsford, Lincoln 

 Steffens, Gouverneur Morris, Ellis Parker Butler, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Van Dyke, Luther H. Gulick, Henry D. Lloyd, 

 George Fitch, Booker T. Washington, F. Berkeley Smith, Irving Bacheller, Maurice Leblanc, Charles Battell Loomis, 

 Meredith Nicholson, A. R. Dugmore, Josephine D. Bacon, Miriam Michelson and Neltje Blanchan. 



FICTION 



The Marquis of Loveland 



By C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Frankly, the Marquis is at 

 the outset a good bit of an unlicked cub, and he entertains not 

 the slighest doubt that all the rich mothers in America will 

 fall over each other to secure him and his title. But privations 

 effect a decided change in character, and the tale ends with one 

 of the most delightful romances that have ever found place 

 in a Williamson story. "The Marquis of Loveland" is a 

 worthy successor to "Lady Betty." Illustrations. Price, $1.50. 



The Lords of High Decision 



By Meredith Nicholson. A romance of Pittsburg of to-day, 

 and the author's most ambitious work. Wayne Craighill is 

 the son of a prominent and wealthy family, who is introduced 

 to the reader at the strategic moment of his career. In Jean 

 Morley the reader will find a new and lovable type of American 

 girl — a child of the anthracite country, with high ideals and 

 ambitions. The plot is intense, the movement direct and 

 dramatic. Four illustrations by A. I. Keller. Price, Si. 50. 



A Court of Inquiry 



By Grace S. Richmond. This is a charming story of a group 

 of girl and men friends, and the effect of their pairing off upon 

 the narrator and her " Philosopher." One sees these charming 

 groups through the eyes of the one who tells the tale — and 

 very shrewd and delightful eyes they are, seeing life in its true 

 perspective with much real philosophy and true feeling. Mrs. 

 Richmond has never written anything more fresh and human 

 and entertaining. Eight illustrations by Charles M. Relyea. 

 Fixed price, $1.00. 



The Lady of Big Shanty 



By F. Berkeley Smith. Mr. Smith (the son of the famous 

 novelist) has been steadily making a reputation as a writer of 

 shrewd and entertaining books of description and travel. This 

 is his first novel, and its outdoor feeling and its fine protrayal 

 of human nature in the great city and the North Woods dis- 

 play a power and an insight that are most remarkable. Fixed 

 price, $1.20. 



Warrior, The Untamed 



By Will Irwin. If the police had interfered, as planned, old 

 Warrior, the harmless "man-eating" lion of Paradise Park, 

 would never have made the balloon ascension as per the press 

 agent's schedule. But the police, as usual, weren't around, 

 and as soon as the terrified lion returned to earth, he broke from 

 the net and made straight for the open country. The tale is up- 

 roariously funny. Four illustrations by Gruger. Price, 50 

 cents. 



Arsene Lupin 



Novelized by Edgar Jepson from the Drama by Maurice 

 Leblanc. Mr. Leblanc's famous creation is a sort of modern 

 Robin Hood of the city; he preys only upon the rich; he is 

 inexhaustible in resources, brilliant, elusive, mysterious — 

 and has, withal, a sense of humor that is a delightful contrast to 

 most detective tales. We predict that Arsene Lupin will soon 

 be a household word among the reading homes of the United 

 States. Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 



The Golden Season 



By Myra Kelly. Myra Kelly's unfailing vein of sprightly 

 humor has full play in this delightful tale of the escapades of 

 Elizabeth and her chum in a coeducational college. Illustrated. 

 Fixed price, $1.20. 



Little Maude and Her Mamma 



By Charles Battell Loomis. Little Maude has been called 

 a classic. Just what a classic is may be hard to define, but 

 when a story has pleased millions of English-speaking people 

 all over the world, it must have elements of nonsense or felicity 

 or pure foolishness that are likely to elevate it to the classic 

 class. "Little Maude" has been tried and not found wanting. 

 "Mr. Loomis's place among American humorists is near 

 the top, but he possesses another quality not often found in 

 humorists. He has a warm and tender sympathy." Sail 

 Francisco Call. Four illustrations by the author. Price, 5° 

 cents. 



In the Border Country 



By Josephine Daskam -Bacon. Mrs. Bacon conveys a 

 reassuring and uplifting message to harassed and wearied woman- 

 kind in the three "fairy tales" that make up this volume. The 

 stories throb with sympathy — they are beautiful idyls of under- 

 standing. Illustrated and decorated by Clara Peck. Fixed 

 price, Si. 00. 



A Reaping 



By E. F. Benson. Mr. Benson here hangs upon a thread of 

 story a series of idyllic essays, each chapter covering a partic- 

 ular month of the year. The book shows admirably the culti- 

 vation, the love for music, the humor and light touch that 

 characterize the author's writings; and it is a volume which 

 will repay a second and third reading. Fixed price, $1.25. 



The Leopard and the Lily 



By Marjorie Bowen. A tale'of breathless adventure, of grim 

 lawlessness and unbridled passion — in those wild mediaeval 

 times in which the author laid her magnificent novel "The 

 Viper of Milan." A most beautiful and proud woman, lov- 

 ing one man but betrothed to the Prince, his best friend; an 

 English gentleman adventurer; ' La Rose Rouge," the embodi- 

 ment of all that was fierce and crafty and brutal in the Middle- 

 Age nobleman — these are the three main actors in this tense and 

 swift-moving drama. Fixed price, Si. 20. 



The Thin Santa Claus 



By Ellis Parker Butler. A lively tale of Mrs.Gratz's dis- 

 covery of Sooo in her chicken coop. Mr. Butler's bit of Christmas 

 nonsense is thoroughly characteristic of the author of " Pigs is 

 Pigs," and well calculated to strike the reader's humorous fancy 

 as powerfully as its celebrated forerunner. Illustrations by 

 May Wilson Preston. Price, 50 cents. 



Just for Two 



By Mary Stewart Cutting. Throughout the five stories of 

 love and courtship that make up Mrs. Cutting's new book, 

 there radiate those qualities of tender, heart-warming human- 

 ity and lifelike realism that are so characteristic of the author's 

 "Little Stories of Married Life," and "The Wayfarers." Four 

 illustrations. Fixed price, Si .00. 



The Master 



By Irving Bacheller. A stirring tale of a young man in 

 quest of a fortune which awaits him in the hands of a missing 

 uncle. The scene of the story moves from semi-Bohemian life 

 of New York to the deck of an old schooner and a camp in the 

 wilderness. Fixed price, Si. 20. 



The Big Strike at Siwash 



By George Fitch. There never was another full-back like 

 Ole Skajrsen, six feet six, two hundred and twenty in his Adam's 

 skin, and built like a bull and a pile-driver, and a thirteen-inch 

 projectile all in one. Coach Most picked him up in the Wis- 

 consin woods somewhere and persuaded him that a college edu- 

 cation at Siwash would increase his lumber output 100 per cent. 

 His subsequent college "education" makes one of the most 

 rousingly funny stories that have ever appeared, and one which 

 will live in football history. Illustrations by May Wilson 

 Preston and Frank Crerie. Price, 50 cents. 



The Half Moon 



By Ford Maddox Hueffer. This story will remain one of the 

 noteworthy tributes to the great Tercentenary Celebration. 

 The narrative of the early days in Holland, the voyage and the 

 discovery, brims with fascinating incident; in fact, as a care- 

 fully wrought, well-balanced, entertaining work of fiction, the 

 book invites comparison with the best historical novel of the 

 past decade. Fixed price, 81.35. 



Putting on the Screws 



By Gouverneur Morris. This story tells of an ordinary, 

 plain business man, struggling along to make ends meet for his 

 wife and family, but never showing the strain or losing his sense 

 of human sympathy. The tale is founded on those fundamen- 

 tal triumphs of human nature over itself which make any 

 reader's heart feel warm. Illustrated in color. Fixed price, 

 50 cents. 



Daphne in Fitzroy Street 



By E. Nesbit. It would be hard to find a more delightful 

 picture of fresh young girlhood than Daphne, leader of the 

 escapades in the French boarding-school. Her romantic 

 adventures make a moving love story of distinction, humor 

 and unusual appeal. Frontispiece in color. Fixed price, Si. 20. 



A Girl of the Limberlost 



By Gene Stratton-Porter. This companion story to 

 "Freckles" is sure to repeat the striking success of that book 

 which, published nearly five years ago, has steadily increased its 

 tens of thousands of readers year by year. It is an exquisitely 

 simple love-story which stands for true womanhood as did 

 'Freckles" for pure manhood. Four illustrations in color by 

 Benda. Price, Si. 50. 



At the Foot of the Rainbow 



By Gene Stratton-Porter. A charming outdoor romance 

 of devoted friendship — the friendship which gives freely with- 

 out return, and the love which seeks first the happiness of its 

 object. New edition. Illustrated in color by Oliver Kemp. 

 Price, $1.50. 



Actions and Reactions 



By Rudyard Kipling. This new volume by Mr. Kipling is 

 of the utmost importance and interest, being the author's 

 first collection of tales since the Nobel prize was awarded to him 

 for "the most distinguished work in the field of idealistic 

 tendency." Price, Si. 50. 



The Southerner 



By Nicholas Worth. Being an autobiographical tale of life 

 in a Southern state since the Civil War. A novel full of real 

 history, of adventure, of romance, of many dramatic events and 

 contrasts, and of triumph. It gives a view of Southern life and 

 progress hitherto neglected in fiction — the buoyant, con- 

 structive, successful, hopeful struggle of the men since the War. 

 Fixed price, $1.20. 



OUTDOOR BOOKS 



The American Flower Garden 



By Neltje Blanchan. There has been needed an authori- 

 tative work covering the American Garden as that famous 

 work by William Robinson describes the English Garden. 

 The present book is the " final authority" and covers adequately 

 the needs of the amateur whose garden is either extensive or the 

 reverse; and every fact among the thousands is made quickly 

 available by a fourteen-page index. There are four plates in 

 full color, and eighty plates of sufficient size adequately to treat 

 the subjects presented. With planting lists by Leonard Barron. 

 Regular edition. Net price, S5.00. 



House Plants 



By Parker Thayer Barnes. A manual of the best plants for 

 house cultivation and indoor decoration, giving foliage and 

 flowers all summer and winter; their raising from seed and 

 home propagation. Illustrated. Net price, Si. 10. 



Flowerless Plants 



By Elizabeth H. Hale. The purpose of this book is three- 

 fold: (1) To interest children in flowerless plants and to lead 

 them to a desire for further knowledge. (2) To present a few 

 facts in such a way as to enable the reader to discover for him- 

 self others equally interesting. (3) To aid those who have 

 found it difficult to obtain information on this subject without 

 a tedious search through volumes not easily procured. More 

 than 100 illustrations in color, half-tone, and line. Net price, 

 75 cents. 



The Garden Week by Week 



By Walter P. Wright. This practical handbook, imported 

 from England, by the author of "The Perfect Garden," covers 

 the gardening operations for every week in the year. It is a 

 handy guide to the culture of the important flowers, vegetables, 

 and fruits — outdoors and in greenhouses and coldframes. 

 Net price, S2.00. 



DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 133 EAST 16th STREET, NEW YORK 



