HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
Jules Verne went around the world in eighty 
days. YOU can almost make the trip in 
eighty minutes if you read the November 
Here are some of the features that make the 
November number one of the best 
we have ever issued: 
In UNEXPLORED CATALINA, Charles Francis Saunders leads you to 
the real heart of the little island off California, a kindly, open heart that few 
people have come to know. It’s a splendid story—John the Diplomatic Chicken 
Rancher will appeal to you. 
WITH THE NATIVES OF LOO-CHOO is about the opposite side of the 
world — the Japanese Archipelago. The Loo-chooans are a mighty peculiar peo¬ 
ple ; the young men over there wear hairpins and eat seaweed with chopsticks. 
Lots of them never saw a white woman in their lives. 
If you would like to see the Alps from a new angle, Alice Lawton can tell 
you how in WINTER DAYS IN SWITZERLAND. There's a deal of the snow 
sparkle, of the tang of the big outdoors here that you should not miss. 
Or, for a different sort of holiday, climb into the little one-horse carozza 
and set out with Russel Woodward Leary FROM SORRENTO TO RAVELLO 
along the “most beautiful drive in the world.” You will see some of the wonder 
spots of Italy, and Mr. Leary is a delightful traveling companion. 
The atmosphere of Belgium is totally different from that of Italy, but its 
spell is no less potent. And the best man we know of to put this charm on paper 
is Albert B. Osborne. The November installment of his remarkable Picture 
Towns of Europe series is about Bruges; if you know Mr. Osborne’s writings 
we don’t need to say anything more. 
Going back to the Mediterranean again, cross over to Algeria and visit SIDI- 
OKBA, A VILLAGE OF THE ZIBAN. The desert lies all about you there; 
strange figures stalk about the sun-baked alleys that serve as streets; the palms 
of the oasis rustle; a caravan struggles in from the everlasting sand — 
Take A MOTOR TRIP THROUGLI SPAIN AND FRANCE and then go 
down to Sicily with Arthur Stanley Riggs and see the greatest volcano in Europe. 
Don’t miss these trips. TRAVEL is full of such treats 
every month, and the superb photographs with which 
they are illustrated make them even more delightful. 
Look for it on the newsstands 
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Princess Louise of 
Prussia’s Memoirs 
FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE 
The period covered by 
this book of memoirs — 
from 1770 to 1815 — is 
perhaps the most stir¬ 
ring in the history of 
Europe. Tremendous 
changes were sweeping 
over Europe; the French 
Revolution, the Na¬ 
poleonic wars, the in¬ 
ternal dissentions which 
shook Church and State 
alike to their very 
foundations, were 
changing the destinies 
of the world. Princess 
Louise, the niece of 
Frederick the Great, 
was intimately connect¬ 
ed with the inner work¬ 
ings of the Prussian 
court and of diplomatic 
life in Europe. In these 
memoirs she paints an 
intimate picture of the 
times and gives the 
reader a close acquaintance with the great figures 
in the human drama. Profusely illustrated and 
with photogravure frontispiece. $4.25 net; postage 
35 cents. 
Caesar Borgia 
By JOHN LESLIE GARNER 
Handsome in person, eloquent, a patron of learn¬ 
ing, and an adept in the cruel, perfidious politics of 
the day, Ctesar Borgia may be said to be the most 
perfect example of the tyrant of the Rennaissance. 
Though he died at the age of twenty-eight, his 
career was one of amazing brilliance, and must 
always remain of extraordinary interest to the 
student of history and biography. Illustrated. 
$3.23 net; postage 20 cents. 
Cardinal de Richelieu 
FREDERICK THE GREAT 
From “Forty-five Years of My Life” 
By ELEANOR C. PRICE 
A new study of the 
great Cardinal’s life as 
a man and a statesman. 
He is studied rather 
from his own letters and 
from trustworthy mem¬ 
oirs than from court 
gossip and slanderous 
stories inspired by envy 
and fear. His states¬ 
manship is dealt with 
from a French rather 
than from the point of 
view of the rest of 
Europe. The romance 
of heroic struggle and 
hard-earned victory be¬ 
longs to a story which 
follows the Cardinal 
from his childhood in 
remote Poitou to the 
height of his power. 
Illustrated. $3.25 net; 
postage 16 cents. 
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU 
Where Socialism Failed 
By STEWART GRAHAME 
An example of an actual experiment in applied Socialism 
under ideal conditions — and the way it worked out. A 
timely and absorbing book. Illustrated. $ 1.50 net; 
postage 12 cents. 
A Book of Famous Wits 
By WALTER JERROLD 
In this volume appear the “sayers of good things’’ from 
the times of Johnson, Tarlton, and Taylor to those of 
Whistler, Wilde and Gilbert. Illustrated. $ 2.50 net: 
postage 20 cents. 
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