House and Garden 
The Readers’ Library 
Of Illustrated Handy Pocket Editions of 
World Famous Books 
1. The Type is as large and as clear as the type used in the 
usual large volumes of Standard Authors. 
2. Unabridged. Each work is complete in one volume. 
3. The Illustrations are an important feature. Each volume 
contains from eight to sixteen beautiful illustrations. These 
illustrations are not the rehashed old fashioned pictures 
usually found in standard works but are new and drawn by 
prominent artists and interpret the stories with great fidelity. 
4. The Paper is strong and opaque. In the volumes with a 
great number of pages imported Bible paper is used. This 
paper is far superior to India paper because it makes the print 
clearer and blacker, and the discouraging difficulty of turning 
the leaves of an India paper book is entirely eliminated. 
5. The Binding. The volumes are bound uniformly in flex¬ 
ible leather, with gold stamping on back, and each volume 
has the author’s autograph signature stamped in gold 
on the side of the book ; they have gilt tops and ribbon 
markers. 
6. For the bookcase. The small size of the volumes, the rich 
binding, the desirable titles, all insure these books a welcome 
in every library. 
Price per volume, postpaid, - - $i.oo 
LIST OF TITLES 
Adam Bede. By George Eliot. 
American Notes. By Charles Dickens. 
‘Barnaby RudQe. By Charles Dickens. 
Bleak House. By Charles Dickens. 
Charmings, The. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 
Charles O’Malley. By Charles Lever. 
Child’s History of England. By Charles 
Dickens- 
Christmas Books. By Charles Dickens. 
Cloister and the Hearth. By Charles 
Reade. 
Danesbury House. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 
David Copperfiehl. By Charles Dickens. 
Dombey and Son. By Charles Dickens. 
East Lynne. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 
Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. 
Hard Times. By Charles Dickens. 
Henry Esmond. By W. M. Thackeray. 
House of the Seven Gables. By Nath¬ 
aniel Hawthorne. 
Ivan hoe. By Sir Walter Scott. 
Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronte. 
John Halifax, Gentleman. By Miss 
Muloch. 
Kenilworth. By Sir Walter Scott. 
Last of the Barons. By Lord Lytton. 
Little Dornt. By Charles Dickens. 
Master Humphrey’s Clock. By Charles 
Dickens. 
Mill 011 the E/oss. By George Eliot. 
Martin Ghuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens. 
Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles. By Mrs. 
Henry Wood. 
Never too Late to Mend. ByCharles Reade. 
Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. 
No Name. By Wilkie Collins. 
Old Curiosity Shop. By Charles Dickens. 
Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. 
Pickwick Papers. By Charles Dickens. 
Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan. 
Reprinted Pieces. By Charles Dickens. 
Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
Scenes of Clerical Life. By George Eliot. 
Shirley. By Charlotte Bronte. 
Silas Marner. By George Eliot. 
Sketches by Boz. ByCharles Dickens- 
Stories and Sketches. ByCharles Dick¬ 
ens. 
Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens. 
Talisman. By Sir Walter Scott. 
Tennyson’s Poetical Works. 
Tom Brown’s School Bays. By Thomas 
Hughes. 
Two Years Ago. By Charles Kingsley. 
Westward Ho. By Charles Kingsley. 
Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. 
Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. 
OTHER TITLES IN PREPARATION 
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, 
PUBLISHERS 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
hands of a few large corporations, who 
have used “dummy” settlers to acquire 
possession from the Government. A 
peculiarity of the redwood is that it 
grows only along the coast line. Cali¬ 
fornia forests stretch out for hundreds 
of miles from Humboldt County on the 
north to Monterey in the south. Before 
the arrival of the timber depredators the 
belt averaged a width of ten miles, but 
it has been gradually thinned, and ap¬ 
pears to have grown in clusters instead 
of an unbroken forest. These trees 
are not only remarkable for their size, 
but exceptional in quality. Humboldt 
County is the richest of all the coast 
counties in its denseness of redwood, 
pine and oak and timber, having about 
1,000,000 acres of forests, of which 
about one-half is redwood. The red¬ 
wood yields about 100,000 feet of 
marketable lumber to the acre. It is es¬ 
timated that 25 per cent of the redwood 
forests of this one county have been 
used by lumbermen —the great majority 
locating the lands for agricultural pur¬ 
poses, merely to get the lumber. Many 
others did not even do that. About 
200,000,000 of feet of redwood lumber 
is taken yearly from this county, and 
others are denuded in proportion. At 
this rate, the remainder of the lumber 
may become exhausted in the next 
quarter of a century. There is no equal 
area of land in the world with such 
dense forests of merchantable timber, 
and no other country where such wanton 
destruction and robbery are permitted. 
It is not believed that this wholesale 
depredation by speculative syndicates 
will be permitted to continue much 
longer, and some of these “dummy” 
settlers will be made to suffer. Red¬ 
wood is the only lumber that can take 
the place of white pine, or be substituted 
for mahogany and black walnut. It 
can displace oak for railroad ties, etc., 
is better for shingles than cedar or 
cypress, and can come in contact with 
the earth, and be exposed to the elements 
and outlast them all. It may be sunk 
in water for a foundation, “never 
gives,” and will endure for centuries. 
Its color is of a reddish tinge, varying 
from that of the lightest beech to the 
darkest mahogany. It is difficult to 
stain it, and it is lighter and more cheer¬ 
ful than 'mahogany and black walnut. 
It makes up well in cabinet work, the 
variegated grain being a curly mottled 
“ bird’s-eye. ” Its beautiful color makes 
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