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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1906 



—full of "plums" 

 as a Christmas pudding 1 



L Frank 

 looker 



Anne O'Hagan 



In the Christmas number 

 of The Broadway Magazine 

 you'll open up a feast of time- 

 ly reading, sure enough — the 

 snippiest and most entertain- 

 ing spread that you've ever 

 clapped your eyes on between 

 the two covers of a magazine. 



Just a peep to whet your 

 interest — 



Anne O'Hagan has 

 a unique article on 

 "Christmas in Many 

 Streets," illustrated by 

 six well-known artists. 

 "The Three Kings of Lib- 

 ertad" is the first part of 

 a short serial by L. Frank 

 Tooker — one of those 

 tales _ that'll make you 

 smile every time you think 

 of it. "The Re-annexation of 

 Long Island" is the last of 

 The Future Terminal Facil- 

 ities of New York 

 series. 



Other contributors 

 are: Rupert Hughes, Em- 

 ery Pottle, Eugene Wood, 

 Charles De Kay, Tneo- 



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 Cecil 

 Clay 



dosia Garrison, William Bub 

 lock, Anne Warner, Katherine 

 Metcalf Roof, Louise Forss- 

 lund and Robert Elliot. 



The pictorial features are 

 nothing short of superb. Im- 

 agine this treat : John Cecil 

 Clay, John Edwin Jackson, 

 Everett Shinn, A. Methf es- 

 se!, Martin Justice, Jay 

 Hambidge, James 

 Montgomery Flagg, 

 Walter Whitehead, Sb 

 Schau and Mark 

 Fenderson. 



The Broadway Maga- 

 zine is New York in a 

 mirror — a clear, true, time- 

 ly reflex of the complex 

 life that makes Gotham 

 the greatest city in the world 

 From front to back cover 

 the Christmas number oi 

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 interest you. It is ? 

 magazine for us to be 

 proud of — and we are, 

 a magazine for you to be 

 pleased with — and you 

 will be. 



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A knowledge of architecture and a train- 

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