May, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



221 



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Medicine For the Soul 



Over the door of the library at 

 Thebes is inscribed 



"Medicine for the Soul" 



When friends are absent or dis- 

 appoint, when discouragement or 

 loneliness overtake, on the book- 

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 master minds of the ages and to 

 us they are always "at home." 

 Their friendship is ever helpful, 

 constant and true. 



He who has learned to love 

 books has found the avenue to 

 contentment and he who has learn- 

 ed to apply the accumulated wis- 

 dom of the centuries, which he 

 gathers through books, to the busy 

 world that surrounds him has found 

 the secret of service. 



-From an editorial by Richard Lloyd Jones in the 

 Wisconsin State Journal. 



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Two of the Big Spring Novels 



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Vandover and 



The Brute 



By Frank Norris 



Author of 

 "The Pit," "The Octopus," "McTeague," etc. 



VANDOVERisaCalifornialadwho comes 

 East to Harvard. After graduating 

 he takes up art in San Francisco, and 

 then begins the career which Frank Norris puts 

 before us with such tremendous realism. The 

 ideal of his art, his love for a girl, the affec- 

 tion of his only parent, his father, and a ready 

 contrition for his faults ally themselves against 

 the growing habit of doing the easiest thing, 

 of depending upon someone else for his sup- 

 port, the love of bodily comfort, and the fatal 

 facility of shaking off, and eventually com- 

 pletely forgetting, the reproaches of a natur- 

 ally sensitive conscience. 



The story of this spiritual fight which Vando- 

 ver wages day by day, hour by hour, against the 

 Brute is a thing that lays hold on the imagina- 

 tion by reason of the weird, uncanny form 

 which the Brute takes in Vandover's imagi- 

 nation. Readers of "The Octopus," "The 

 Pit," "McTeague," etc., will find real pleasure 

 in this recovery of a genuine Norris manuscript. 



From the Preface by Charles G. Norris 



Shortly after Frank Norris's deatb certain publishers, 

 learning of the existence of a completed novel from his 

 pen, desired to publish it. The manuscript — no copy of 

 which had ever been made — had been packed away in 

 a crate, and was in storage in a large warehouse in San 

 Francisco. While the question of opening these crates 

 one by one was being discussed, the earthquake and fire 

 occurred; the warehouse burned to the ground, and it 

 was assumed that its contents were consumed with it. 

 A little over a year ago a letter was received from the 

 storage company stating that certain furniture and 

 boxes had been moved away from the warehouse just 

 before the building caught fire. In one of them the 

 manuscript of "Vandover and the Brute" was found, but 

 it so happened that the signature of the title sheet 

 had been cut out for the sake of the autograph. The 

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Chance 



By Joseph Conrad 



Author of 

 " Youth," Lord Jim, " " 'Twixt Land and Sea, " etc. 



WITH the psychology of his own sex 

 Mr. Conrad is but moderately con- 

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 would seem almost indelicate were it not so 

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 Mr. Conrad is willing to let the tragic tale of 

 Flora de Barral, from infancy oppressed by 

 fate, or, as her creator considers, chance, seep 

 out through the intervening interpreting per- 

 sonalities of Powell and Marlow. . . . 

 The effect of this leisurely progress upon the 

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 . . . Chance is the work of a master. Prac- 

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 as if grown there." — Chicago Record-Herald. 



says: — 



The New York Times 



"Flora de Barral conquers her place by chance — by chance it 

 must be with such wounded souls. Although we never see her to 

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 the most appealing heroines in modern fiction." 



Basil King, Author of "The Inner Shrine," "The 

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" 'Chance' is a book that could have been written by no one 

 but a master — a book which is well nigh a duty for every lover of 

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Louis Joseph Vance, Author of "Joan Thurs- 

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" 'Chance' seems to me to be an extraordinary achievement, a 

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C O U P O N 



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Gentlemen : Please send me on approval by parcel post 



copies of Vandover and the Brute, By Frank Norris. 



copies of Chance, By Joseph Conrad. (Cross off one not 



wanted.) It is understood that if they do not prove satisfactory, 

 I may return them, the bill for the same being cancelled. 



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