May, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



223 



Through the Thousands of Magnificent Pages 

 of the Eight Superb Volumes of the 



New Nature Library 



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The most beautiful, most 

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When all the great mass of material had been chosen, edited, set up 

 and magnificently illustrated, we found that at first it made 17 heavy 

 volumes. It was too big and too heavy a set. Without taking out a 

 word — a letter, a picture, a page — we have put the same plates into 

 8 comfortable volumes. And this we have accomplished simply by 

 using an extraordinary light opaque, imported paper — expensive to 

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 those who owned these books wanted to read them day by day. 

 They did not want heavy books for furniture but handsome books to 

 be held in the hand — to be carried in the field — to be lovingly read 

 and frequently consulted. 



Remember everything is there — the six thousand pages are there, 



the two thousand five hundred and ninety text pictures are there, the 

 four hundred big full color pictures are there — every word of brilliant 

 story — every word of priceless index — every word of scientific knowl- 

 edge. Only the paper is lighter, and where the heavier sheets made 

 two volumes the new, expensive thin sheets make one. And yet the 

 price is less than half and this is why. One of the biggest cost items 

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 for the cost of the original plates, we are able to offer this present 

 edition at less than half the old price. The old price was low — 

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8,000 Pages— 6,000 Illustrations— 400 Full Color Photos 



And these —are the bare names that indicate the good things in these eight volumes 



Bird Neighbors by Neltje Blanchan 

 Game Birds by Neltje Blanchan 

 Bird Homes by A. Radcly ffe Dugmore 

 Butterflies by Dr. W. J. Holland 

 Moths by Dr. W. J. Holland 

 Trees by Julia E. Rogers 



Frogs by Mary C. Dickerson 

 Insects by Dr. L. O. Howard 

 Spiders by John Henry Comstock 

 Grasses by Mary Evans Francis 

 Wild Flowers by Neltje Blanchan 

 Mosses and Lichens by Nina L. Marshall 



Animals by Witmer Stone and William Everett Cram 

 Mushrooms by Nina L. Marshall 

 Shells by Julia E. Rogers 

 Reptiles by Raymond L. Ditmars 

 Fishes by David Starr Jordan and Barton 

 W. Evermann 



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