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The Way Home 
By the Author of “The Inner Shrine.” 
(Basil King) 
The book for the man or the woman who loves 
honesty is this new novel by the author of "The 
Inner Shrine.” For that is what the very human 
hero of this story is — honest in his hatred of 
pretense, honest in his wilfulness, honest at last 
with himself when he finds that he has gone astray. 
He believed he had "gained the whole world” 
only to find that he had "lost his own soul.” 
Illustrated. Post 8vo. Cloth, 81.35 net. 
Familiar Spanish Travels 
By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 
In this new book of travels Mr. Howells relates the 
incidents and impressions of his trip through 
Spain. Like a glorified kinemacolor film, he 
passes in review Spanish scenery, the architecture 
of cathedrals and palaces; theatres and hotels; 
picturesque street scenes; Moorish remains; the 
King and Queen; beggars and guides; gypsies 
and donkeys. 
32 illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 82.00 net. 
Social and Economic Forces in 
American History 
From the “American Nation” — A History 
Consecutive views of American life, manners, 
and customs from the early days of the first 
colonies are here described by the distinguished 
scholars who have contributed to the twenty- 
seven volumes of the "American Nation.” 
Crown 8vo. Cloth, 81.50 net. 
The Coryston Family 
By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD 
A love story, with a heroine who will rank as 
Mrs. Ward’s most charming portrayal of young 
womanhood of to-day, and a dramatic representa¬ 
tion of the struggle between the radical and 
aristocratic elements of English society. As a 
rich sombre background against which the youthful 
love episodes stand out, the author has painted the 
character of a forceful woman, desperately seeking 
to retain the almost unlimited power that was hers. 
Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, 81.35 net. 
Miracles of Science 
By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS 
The story of the modern miracles of the labora¬ 
tory and observatory told in popular language 
free from technicalities, so that the least scientific 
reader will understand and enjoy it. 
Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 82.00 net. 
This two-volume history of our great conflict, 
from 1861 to 1865, provides a work at once brief, 
compact, and impartial. 
With frontispiece and maps. Crown 8vo. Per 
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were mostly designed and executed by 
Japanese architects, at appalling expense 
to the aspiring owners. 
But of gardens, large or small, worked 
out along Japanese lines, whose expense 
may be elastically telescoped to fit the 
purse of the ordinary garden lover, there 
are legion, and it is of this latter class this 
article intends to treat. 
The true Japanese garden is impractical 
for the ordinary garden owner, first on 
account of its expense; secondly by reason 
of its comparative lack of bloom; and 
lastly for the minute and careful attention 
paid to infinitesimal detail and sentimental 
value. 
That the second item in this list will be 
read askance by many who have cherished 
visions of Japanese iris-gardens filled with 
bloom, I am well aware. But the state¬ 
ment is nevertheless true. The rightful 
Japanese garden is not primarily a garden 
of flowers. A single flowering plum or 
cherry tree for blossom in the spring; a 
few choice peonies, iris, and great single 
roses; and in the fall a clump of lily- 
spikes, or blazing chrysanthemums—these 
are the chief dependents of a true garden 
of Japan. Nowhere is there that uncom¬ 
fortable profusion of varied flower-faces, 
detracting from the beauty of each indi¬ 
vidual specimen, which is so often the case 
in American gardens; nowhere is there the 
haphazard grouping of conflicting tints 
which too often offends the eye in our 
gardens. 
For the rest, their charm lies chiefly in 
the placing of boulders, the harmonious 
grouping of reeds and grasses, the artistic 
value of teahouse and tori, stone lanterns 
and rustic bridges. A Japanese architect 
will spend a week in judging the particular 
location for a certain boulder, destined to 
become a keynote of the garden, and will 
perhaps spend many weeks in the selection 
of the boulder itself; it must be of a cer¬ 
tain shape, tint, and fitness for the land¬ 
scape. In fact, Japanese garden-making 
in its true sense is really a religion, in 
which sentiment, beauty-cult, and even 
ancestor-worship play a prominent part. 
Their gardens are more than beautiful pic¬ 
tures ; they are expressions of personal 
sentiment, and finally completed only after 
generations of painstaking detail. 
In designing a garden on Japanese lines 
in this country, an approximate attention 
to detail must be paid, if the Japanese at¬ 
mosphere is to be retained, even in part. 
The architect must depart from all for¬ 
merly accepted rules of garden-making. 
Where he has been taught to deal broadly 
in landscape effects, he must now turn 
finicky; where ordinarily he has placed 
long, broad walks, leading directly to the 
garden’s focal points, he must now turn 
his attention to narrow paths, that wind 
in snake-like curves and devious ap¬ 
proaches to these points of interest; and 
where he has dealt in groups and masses, 
he must learn to use single well-placed 
specimens. The arrangement of paths 
is the main point of success or failure in 
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The Passionate Friends By H. G. WELLS 
The story of the turbulent lives of one man and one woman—separated by the barrier of the law, 
yet attached by something stronger than law — stronger than themselves. A story with a background 
of high idealism and prophecy of the future. “The heroine who ‘wanted herself’ and lost her freedom 
in providing that self with luxury is depicted with consummate art, while Stephen’s wife is one of the 
most delightful of the Wells’s gallery of female portraits.” — London Literary Guide. 
Frontispiece. Post 8vo. Cloth, 81.35 net. 
A Changed Man By THOMAS HARDY 
A new Hardy book! One to arouse the keen interest of every Hardy lover. This new volume has 
all the wealth of his genius, for the tales in it were written when he was at the height of his career. They 
are more like condensed novels. "A Changed Man” takes the reader at once to Casterbridge and tells 
the romance of a captain of cavalry. All the stories are rich in atmosphere and character, and several 
are almost mediaeval in their power and mystery. Frontispiece and map. 8vo. Cloth, 81.35 net. 
The Judgment House By SIR GILBERT PARKER 
"Never has Sir Gilbert written a novel more filled with keen and poignant sense of life than in this 
story, woven of London and the veld, of England and her policies, South Africa and her struggles during 
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The American Civil War 
A Short History 
By JAMES KENDAL HOSMER 
