House and Garden 
Do Not Miss! 
Conan Doyle 
In the September Number of 
The Strand Magazine 
neighboring village, is an effort in the 
English manner. Most of the other 
places are more modern than the historic 
homes of Washington, Lee and Long¬ 
fellow and are simply elaborate but 
comfortable country houses. 
7 he volume is well printed and taste¬ 
fully hound. The chief flaw is the 
author’s monotony of expression and his 
habit of making a paragraph of nearly 
every sentence. 
In fiction this number is exceptionally strong—one ol’tlie finest 
selections of stories we have ever published. 
THE SILVER MIRROR . 
THE STOLEN BLENKINSOP. 
A WEDDING JOURNEY. 
MEPHISTOPHELES ON THE LINKS 
JOHN GARLAND THE DELIVERER. 
DOUBLE SCULLS. 
THE BABIES’ REVIEW. 
.By A. Conan Doyle 
.By Arthur Morrison 
.B3’^ C. C. Andrews 
By G. A. Riddell and Bernard Darwin 
.By K. Phillips Oppenheini 
.Bj' H. C. Bailej' 
.By E. V. Lucas 
A Long Instalment of 
“Sa.ltKaver\,” by W. W. Jacobs 
Another Chapter of 
“The House of Ardeii,” E. N’e.shii’s Story for Children. 
“The Umloiiig: of Archihald,” 
A Composite Novelette by Fifty Popular Novelists. 
“My African Journey”—Mr. Winston Chnrcliill’s 
fascinating description of his recent trip through British East Africa. 
Illustrated with a fine selection of photographs. 
“Keininiscences find Redections,” hy Sir John H:ire, 
the famous English actor. 
“Tlie Life Story of ;i Wild Oreliid.” By J. J. Ward 
The COLOR. SECTION in this number is devoted to an eight-page article entitled 
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the artist’s meaning is capable of several different interpretations. It is only 
human nature, when one is perplexed how to explain a scene in a play, a 
poem, or a picture, to ask what the author himself intended to convey. 
The article is illustrated with eight famous 
problem” pictures, reproduced in color. 
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COLOR IN THE FLOWER GARDENS* 
GURLLY to have color is one of the 
^ chief reasons why we make 
flower gardens, and Miss Gertrude 
Jekyll has made a sensible study of the 
none-too-easy problem of having a 
garden bloom with satisfying color- 
effects all the vear round. “1 believe,” 
she says, “that the only way in which it 
can he made successful is to devote cer¬ 
tain borders to certain times of year; 
each border or garden region to be 
bright for from one to three months.” 
She takes the subject up by seasons and 
her volume is very suggestive to those 
who are more than mere grubbers in the 
soil. 
It will appeal to the esthetic taste 
of many. The hook is one of the 
excellent “Country Life Library” and 
naturally its advice must he taken with 
the necessary allowance for differences 
between the climate of Lngland and that 
of America. A large number of hand¬ 
somely printed illustrations and garden 
plans are included. 
A SUBURBANITE’S GARDEN DIARYf 
pROBABLY the Commuter is lightly 
regarded because his happier life 
makes him laugh when the inmates 
of tall tenements grow haggard with 
care. At any rate the Commuter is 
now offered a book decked out in bright 
pink and green, for keeping the joyous 
tally of his experiments with mother 
earth. It looks like one of those gay 
volumes presented to new parents by 
frivolous friends in which to chronicle 
every event in Baby’s life. But the 
Commuter will accept this volume cheer¬ 
fully for he will see that it contains 
suggestions for the flower garden month 
* Colour in the Garden. By Gertrude Jekyll, pp. xiv + 
148. SizedxpX inches. Price $3.75, net. Imported by 
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. 
t The Commuter’s Garden Record. Compiled and de¬ 
signed by Amy Carol Rand, and published by H. M. Cald¬ 
well Co.. New York and Boston. 
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