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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 ; 
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THE GREEN OVERCOAT 
By Hilaire Belloc 
This is the strangest detective story ever written. 
It concerns the unintentional filching of a green 
overcoat from a coatroom at a social function by an 
eminent professor of psychology in an important 
university. The amusing complications arising from 
the professor’s being mistaken for the original owner 
of the coat, form the basis of a mystery tale that is 
absolutely unique. Besides the engaging plot there 
is a vein of humor and satire that is delicious. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton, the eminent English essayist 
who is not at all well known as an illustrator has 
drawn some whimsical pictures for the book. SI.20 
net; postage 8 cents. 
HILAIRE BELLOC 
IN THE VORTEX 
By Clive Holland 
A story of heart-throbs and gayety in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Real 
Bohemian life with all its lights and shadows is here depicted by a 
master-hand. The author of "Trilby” has not given a more charming 
picture of the studios, the cafes, and the motley population of the 
Quartier Latin. The reader is drawn into the vortex of poignant 
human emotions, of mad gayeties, and sober tragedy. The love of 
Elbert Glynn, a young American artist, for the appealing little model. 
Jeanette, is portrayed with tenderness and delicate charm. This novel 
is the most important that Mr. Holland has yet written, and one which 
is sure to be widely read and discussed. SI.25 net; postage 11 cents. 
THE MESH 
By John Haslette 
A mystery and detective story that will keep you up ’way past your 
bedtime. There isn't any Republic of Coquibe in South America, any 
more than there was a Graustark or a Zenda, but here is a striking story 
about it for all that. And if you read the first three pages, you won't 
stop to consider anything except the important matter of the young 
bank manager's catching the thief who robbed the vault and squaring 
himself with his employers and with the charming girl he is engaged to 
marry. There is a lot doing in this book — villainy, intrigue, and love— 
and it will appeal to every man who has a corpuscle of romantic blood 
in his veins. SI. 20 net; postage 10 cents. 
MY ESCAPES 
By A Bachelor 
A rarely humorous story of a young bachelor who, by a legacy from a 
wealthy uncle, is suddenly raised from poverty to affluence, and escapes 
from a dozen women, ranging from the chorus to the nobility to whom 
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most amusing book of the year. SI.20 net; postage 10 cents 
A Delightful Romance for the Younger Set 
THE MAID OF MIDDIES’ HAVEN 
By Gabrielle E. Jackson, author of "Three Graces,” etc. 
A fascinating tale of a sweet-natured, lovable young girl who is the 
guest of a friend near the Naval Academy at Annapolis and becomes a 
moving figure in its social life. She takes part in the various "hops” 
and "proms” and is an interested partisan spectator of the football 
games and crew races in which the middies participate. She is wooed 
by two of the cadets, and such are the qualities of both of the men that 
it is a difficult matter for her to choose between them. She does choose 
however, and the story ends to the eminent satisfaction of the reader! 
Mrs. Jackson is a well-established favorite with the younger set and 
this her latest book will lie eagerly sought for. It is by far the best she 
has written. Illustrated. SI.20 net; postage 10 cents. 
Your bookseller can supply you 
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A Document of Life 
The Most Remarkable Auto¬ 
biography of the Decade 
THE GIRL 
WITH THE 
ROSEWOOD 
CRUTCHES 
Anonymous 
Here is a fragment of life 
indeed —life from a brand 
new angle in the world of 
literature. It is the document 
of the struggles of a girl bound 
to crutches, hopelessly lamed. 
She didn’t want to seem odd, 
it was a humiliation to be 
pitied. She was human and 
she demanded love and won 
it too. These are by no means 
pages of tragedy, but those of 
conquest, the conquest of an 
indomitable will over all but 
unconquerable circumstances. 
The Girl tells her own story, 
simply and graphically, from 
the days when she led a life of 
dreams and dull inertia in her 
own town through the time of 
her going to New York and 
finding compensations in its 
harsh realities up to her 
triumphs in music and love. 
It’s a story that touches the 
heart strings. Frontispiece by 
Harrison Cady. $1.20 net; 
postage 11 cents. 
It will have a million readers. 
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass 
By F. F. ROCKWELL, author of “Home Vegetable Gardening.’* 
Fresh vegetables and flowers out of season — and the fun of growing them — may 
be yours. This book tells the secrets and rewards of home gardening through the 
so-called “barren” months. The choice, care and propagation of all house plants, 
the construction and management of hotbeds and coldframes, and the possibilities 
of a small greenhouse, are all set forth with great thoroughness and interest. Illus¬ 
trated. SI.20 net; postage 10 cents. 
Making a Bulb Garden 
By GRACE TABOR 
This new volume in the House 
Garden “Making” Books will give you 
full and dependable instructions in the 
selection and planting of bulbs for the 
naturalized and formal garden. Illus¬ 
trated. 50c.net; postage 5c. 
Making a Garden with 
Hotbed and Coldframe 
By C. H. MILLER 
Another new “Making” book that tells 
how the fruitful garden season may be 
prolonged by the use of a few glazed 
sash, and sets forth the care and man¬ 
agement of the hotbed and coldframe. 
50c. net; postage 5c. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Union Square, New York 
many weeks it will give continued pleasure 
to many of them. The robins will come 
to it throughout the day and will bring 
their young and teach them to help them¬ 
selves, the orioles will come, the catbird 
will slip slyly in, as will the cuckoos. The 
blackbirds, wrens, sparrows, thrushes, 
waxwings, warblers and flycatchers will 
come, and occasionally a bluebird and a 
tanager. The sweet, sticky fruit attracts 
many small flies and insects and the insect 
loving birds soon find that out. 
North of the city where the farmers 
raise many strawberries, more than one 
country roadside is lined with these trees. 
The farmers have discovered that the 
birds prefer the mulberries to the straw¬ 
berries, and since they ripen at the same 
time they find it is economy to plant the 
trees. 
How the cedar waxwings love the ber¬ 
ries of the Tartarian honeysuckle and 
those of the mountain ash. Back in our 
garden to-day is a red cedar that brings 
early recollections — perhaps our earliest— 
of birds. A great mountain ash tree in the 
yard was red with berries in the late sum¬ 
mer and the pretty, polite, cedar waxwings 
used to come to it in flocks. A picket fence 
was near, and after a time we found a tiny 
red cedar growing in between the pickets. 
The cedar waxwings had planted it. It is 
a strong, sturdy tree now and the warb¬ 
lers and many other small birds appropri¬ 
ate it for their sleeping apartment. 
Birds love the chokecherry trees, the 
dogwood, elder, and the wild gooseberry, 
raspberry and currant. Put in some of the 
sumac for them and find a place for the 
wild grapevine, the bitter-sweet and the 
Virginia creeper. Never can one find 
more beautiful hedges than those along 
the country roadside, and how the birds 
flock to these tangles! They like variety 
in their food as you do. Why not bring 
in to your yard the things that grow all 
about you? If you are very particular 
about having everything in perfect order 
and do not want a “mixed up” yard, as I 
once heard a woman call it, fix up one cor¬ 
ner for the birds and you will find that 
this will be the attractive spot of your gar¬ 
den after all. Don’t cut down all of the 
old trees. The flickers, bluebirds and 
wrens love them to nest in. Plant vines to 
grow over them if you wish, but leave 
some of them to shelter the birds. Put up 
bird houses and if they are made attrac¬ 
tive they will soon be occupied. If you 
will close up your martin houses in August 
or September when the birds have gone 
South, and will open them about the nine¬ 
teenth of April you will not be troubled 
with undesirable sparrow tenants. 
Birds love the old syringa bush in the 
garden with its hundreds of little branches. 
In the migration time early in the spring 
this is the place they seek, and we often 
say that the birds come there to register 
and then fly away. The cuckoo and the 
wood thrush sometimes rest in its protect¬ 
ing branches for five or six hours, appar¬ 
ently tired after miles of flight. The little 
ruby crowned kinglet loves it and sits and 
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