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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



D ECEMBEB, 1909 



Regular edition, at a popular price, of the standard work on American Gardening 



The American Flower Garden 



By 



NELTJE BLANCHAN 



Jluthor of "Bird Neighbors," "Nature's Garden/' etc. 



This very sumptuous and valuable book, now issued in its permanent form, reveals the little subtleties 

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The Lords of High 

 Decision 



By 

 MEREDITH NICHOLSON 



Author of ' ' The House of a Thousand Candles, ' 

 "The Main Chance, " etc. 



The New Fiction 



Actions and 

 Reactions 



By 

 RUDYARD KIPLING 



The story of Wayne Craighill, "the 



child of his city (Pittsburg), who ex- ~ "'3^ 



pressed its genius, its confused aims, its v , y - ^f? 



weaknesses and its aspirations," and jeanMoAesT 



how he realized his own possibilities through the inspiration of a 



girl "whose hands had known labor." Illustrated in color 



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The Master The Half Moon 



By Irving Bacheller. A fresh plot, a new love motive, a 

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In the Border Country 



By Josephine Daskam Bacon. An elevated and unique 

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The Leopard and the Lily 



By Marjorie Bowen. This is a tale of breathless adventure, 

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The Thin Santa Claus 



By Ellis Parker Butler. How a kindly and benevolent 

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Just for Two 



By Mary Stewart Cutting. Five stories of love and court- 

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The Big Strike at Siwash 



By George Fitch. A football story, by our new humorist, 

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Daphne in Fitzroy Street 



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Warrior, the Untamed 



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The Golden Season 



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Arsene Lupin 



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Little Maude and Her Mamma 



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Putting on the Screws 



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A Court of Inquiry 



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The Lady of Big Shanty 



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A Girl of the Limberlost 



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At the Foot of the Rainbow 



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