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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 191 



The First Million 

 Mark Now Reached 



What 

 CORRA HARRIS 



says of 



"The Harvester" 



TN a remarkable review a 

 -*- page and half long in The 

 Independent, Corra Harris, 

 Author of "The Circuit Ri- 

 der's Wife" and "The Record- 

 ing Angel," thus defines the 

 extraordinary charm of Mrs. 

 Porter's book: 



"Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter's 

 new novel is an illustration of the 

 harmony and intimacy which does 

 rightly exist between a man and 

 a forest. In "The Harvester" she 

 has not only dramatized, but 

 proved the purifying and preser- 

 vative forces that are always pre- 

 sent and predominant in such a 

 situation. This is why the story 

 is so popular. It is utterly simple, 

 nothing in the plot to appeal to 

 morbid interest or curiosity. We 

 really prefer what is good and 

 clean in man and in nature if we 

 can get it portrayed in fiction." 



"There is not a financier in 

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 grocerman, nor clerk in any city 

 who reads this story who will not 

 discover in himself some dim rela- 

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 and dead leaves of commercialism, 

 to this medicine man, who lived 

 with his dog in a cabin in the 

 green shade upon the banks of his 

 singing water. A vacation like- 

 ness to be sure, for few men of 

 to-day are sufficiently hardy in 

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 But that is the fault of our kind 

 of civilization, not of the life por- 

 trayed in "The Harvester." 



€J The first million copies of Mrs. 

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 romances have been sold. 



CJ This milestone has been passed 

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 Every day its unique appeal is being 

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^ This is a seven months' record! 



«T' Freckles" and "A Girl of the 

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 to-day than when they were published 

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<I Another 500,000 will be added to 

 Mrs. Porter's record for 1912. 



^ Are you in the advance guard or 

 the reserves? — the one million or 

 the 500,000? 



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