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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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BOOKS should be owned and read for the same reasons that other necessities and desirable possessions are purchased and retained. 

 It is doubtful if a borrowed book has the same effect and influence on its reader as a book that is a personal possession. Its reading 

 is apt to be that of casual acquaintanceship rather than responsive friendship, and when returned, is very often as promptly out of mind 

 as out of sight. But a book of one's own selection, bought with one's own money, read with the joy of ownership, and kept on the 

 table or put on the shelf, grows day by day an ever dearer friend." Kate Langley Bosher. 



But if you live far from the city bookstores you need now no longer make "casual acquaintance" with 

 borrowed books. For, with the "parcel post," the bookstore has come to you. Mail your selections from the 

 list below to us — look them over and pay when they have become "responsive friends" — not before. 

 We do not wish to interfere with the trade of the bookseller ; we wish that every locality in the United 

 States had a good bookseller and that you would buy these books from him; our suggestion is addressed 

 to readers who don't go to bookstores or have no bookstores to go to. 



Ju8 tout VANDOVER 



and the BRUTE 



Net $1.35 



By the Author of 



"The Pit," "The Octopus," 



"McTeague," Etc. 



H. L. Mencken says: 



" 'Vandover and the Brute' has filled me 

 with enthusiasm. Next to 'McTeague,' it 

 seems to me to be the most virile and straight- 

 forward thing that Norris ever did. It keeps 

 on a plane of extraordinary reality. It is a 

 long while since a novel has made so powerful 

 an impression on me." 



MY GARDEN DOCTOR 



By FRANCES DUNCAN 



"The little book proclaims the gospel that 

 Mother Earth is the best doctor for maladies 

 of the nerves; that a little daily digging will 

 build up waste tissue better than massage; to 

 put it all in a nutshell, better an abandoned 

 farm than a sanitarium." — New York Times. 

 Net $1.00. 



CLEEK OF SCOTLAND YARD 



By THOMAS W. HANSHEW 



"There is a freshness and virility about this 

 detective story that will carry with it a strong 

 appeal to every lover of such adventurous stories. 

 Cleek is seemingly a real man, not a creature 

 of shreds and patches, who is made to do im- 

 possible things by some author who lacks im- 

 agination and a sense of proportion. — Portland 

 Evening Telegram. Illustrated. Net $1.25. 



THE BOY'S CAMP BOOK 



By EDWARD CAVE 



A book for boys of all ages who love to camp 

 and lead a healthy, woodsman's life. It tells 

 just what they need to know about kits, grub 

 and woodcraft. Written by a scout master. 

 Illustrated. Net 50 cents. Just Out. 



By FRANK NORRIS 



The Mexican People: 



Their Struggle For Freedom 



By 

 L. Gutierrez de Lara 



and 



Edgcumb Pinchon 



The first true expression of the voice 

 of the Mexican people. 



In it the fighting Mexican peon makes 

 himself heard — tells why he is struggling 

 desperately to overthrow Huerta and 

 why he will keep up the fight, interven- 

 tion or no intervention, until he gets 

 back the land that was his before the 

 dictatorship of Diaz. 



Here are found the real causes for the 

 intervention in Mexico. 



Illustrated. Net $1.50 

 Second Large Printing 



The New York Evening Post says: 



"The merits of this first book show the inborn 

 genius of the most promising figure in the liter- 

 ary quarter-century, surpassing Stephen Crane 

 in sturdiness and absence of nervosity, and its 

 defects compared with his later achievement, 

 give us a new basis for tracing the growth of the 

 skill and vision that were to fade at thirty-two." 



ADE'S FABLES 



By GEORGE ADE 



He's just made that way. That's all you can 

 say about him — and whatever he does you can't 

 help laughing at it. Quoting doesn't help mat- 

 ters, you have to read the real thing to get the 

 full humor of these delightfully whimsical tales 

 saturated with the slang of the metropolis. 

 Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. Net $ 1 . 00. 



BUILDING, BY A BUILDER 



By BENJAMIN A. HOWES 



A practical book for amateur builders writ- 

 ten by a contractor-engineer. He tells how 

 much of the bother and wasted time and money 

 may be saved by knowing the building game. 

 Illustrated. Net $1.20. Just Out. 



THE PANAMA CANAL 



By FREDERIC J. HASKIN 



The Book on the Canal with Col. Goethals 's O. K. 



"The simplest language, the best and clear- 

 est account that we have seen of the difficulties 

 overcome, and of the machinery to be used 

 for passing ships through the canal." — The 

 London Athenaeum. Illustrated Net $1 .35. 



PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL SANITY A SON OF THE AGES 



By HUGO MUNSTERBERG 



Do you know that experiments show that advertising next to text is 

 not as effective as on the straight ad-page? 



Do you know the fundamental reason for the reckless waste of American 

 savings and how you can help to prevent it? 



Have you an answer to the experiments that show that women are unfit 

 for jury duty? These are some of the topics discussed in Prof. Munster- 

 berg's latest discussion of psychology in relation to our social life. 



Net $1.25 



By STANLEY WATERLOO, Author of "The Story ofAb" 



The Story of the Beginnings of Man. "A remarkable story of the evolution 

 and early history of man, preserving its unity by making each successive 

 stage the reincarnation of a single individual. These stories are packed 

 with scientific and historic truth underneath the adventure and the romance, 

 fascinating to all readers. We may all be glad to refresh our memories with 

 facts presented in Mr. Waterloo's poetic and picturesque style, as well as to 

 enjoy a book which belongs to genuine literature." — New York Times. 

 Illustrated by Craig Johns. Net $1.25. 



The Readers' Service is prepared to advise parents in regard to schools 



