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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



A PHIL, 1914s 



PENROD 



This new book by the author of "The 

 Gentleman from Indiana," "Monsieur Beau- 

 caire," etc., was published March 26th. We 

 believe it will be only a short time before 

 "Penrod" will have established himself every- 

 where as a real person and one of the most 

 lovable youngsters ever put in a book. 



The writer of these notes thinks he was a 

 good deal of a Penrod once upon a time and 

 you will think you were, too, just as sure as 

 you read Booth Tarkington's story. And if 

 you are a parent, you can be morally certain 

 that the strange, unaccountable Boy who is 

 part Indian, part fiend, part lovable child, who 

 fills you alternately with fond hope and abys- 

 mal despair, is just another Penrod whom you 

 can largely understand with Booth Tarking- 

 ton's assistance. 



It is doubtful if Mr. Tarkington has ever 

 done more genuinely finished work than in this 

 story. From Penrod's first appearance, in the 

 legend of Arthur, for which a loving mother 

 and sister array him in an extraordinary cos- 

 tume, down to the adventures with the tar-pot 

 and his father's sling, and the gala event of his 

 twelfth birthday, we watch a boy's mind at 

 work, strange, inscrutable thing that it is; 



'"To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — Antony and Cleopatra. 



we see the humorous, tragic things that fill 

 a boy's heart; and we come to the end with 

 many regrets, for, first and last Penrod is a 

 Real Boy. 



We commend the illustrations to your 

 special notice. 



JOSEPH CONRAD 



"You'll know more about Conrad in a 

 twelvemonth," was what we said in "The Talk 

 of the Office" just a year ago — April, 1913. 

 Was ever prophecy more religiously fulfilled? 

 For truly the publication of Chance this spring 

 has been something of an event in literature. 

 In England Conrad's genius has been more 

 widely recognized for some time; we in America 

 have been slower to realize that in this Polish 

 sea-captain (who never heard a word of Eng- 

 lish until he was nineteen) we have one of the 

 great masters of romantic narrative. But now 

 Chance has come "to haunt, to startle, and 

 waylay." Truly a book that deepens one's ap- 

 preciation of the inscrutable poignancies of life. 



The growth of interest in Conrad adds time- 

 liness to the book, "Joseph Conrad" by 

 Richard Curie, a young Englishman of much 

 promise, which we announce for May. It is a 

 study of Conrad both as writer and as man. 

 Curie is in a sense a disciple of the man he 

 treats, and has a certain spiritual affinity with 

 him. He is himself the author of a volume of 

 short stories of rather unusual quality — "Life is 

 a Dream" also to appear in May. 



FORTY-NINE FORTY-NINERS 



The returns from our advertisements (in 

 connection with Stewart Edward White's 

 Gold) for Forty-niners have far exceeded our 

 anticipation. At the time of writing, by a 

 curious coincidence, no less than forty-nine 

 forty-niners have written in for the compli- 

 mentary copies of Gold which we offered. 

 Their eagerness to renew their memories of 

 those stirring days is pathetic, and the anec- 

 dotes they tell of their adventures in the Gold- 

 Rush are interesting in the extreme. 



TWO SEVENS 



Seven has always been a mystic number. 

 Not only have we heard from forty-nine forty- 

 niners, but by this month seven volumes of 

 the Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rud- 



yard Kipling will be in the hands of the sub- 

 scribers. One of them is the signed volume 

 containing the special page autographed by 

 Mr. Kipling himself. There are not very many 

 of the 1,050 sets left. It will be interesting 

 to see what this set sells for at the booksales 

 fifty years hence. 



AN INVITATION RENEWED 



A welcome to our big garden awaits readers 

 during all the spring months. This year 

 we're established and will leave you to decide 

 how true in the case of this community of eight 

 hundred workers is Kipling's prophecy that 



"The Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one". 



We hope that many visitors may find that 



"The Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets 

 the eye." 



P. S. By the way, the curve of Kipling 

 appreciation is still in the ascendant, and some 

 of his very best verse is in the History of Eng- 

 land, by Mr. Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher 

 from which the above lines are quoted. 



This is the space occupied by ten thousand HARVESTER. 



A new printing of twenty-five times this size: i. e., 



250,000 copies, has just been completed 



