House and Garden 
IN THE 
OCTOBER 
SCRIBNER 
Copyright by Byron, IQ02 
HENRY VAN DYKE’S: A JOURNEY TO JERASH 
Through Palestine to the wonderful and pictiu-esque ruins of the ancient city of 
Gerasa—In this delightful author’s best vein. 
By PAUL WILSTACH 
Illustrated 
An account of the actor’s first great success in America, with interesting remi¬ 
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theaters. 
By WILLIAM T. 
HORNADAY 
Illustrated 
RICHARD MANSFIELD 
DIVERSIONS IN PICTURESQUE GAME-LANDS 
The Wildest Corner of Mexico 
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A description of an expedition into a region heretofore unexplored and unknown. 
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A CHRONICLE OF FRIENDSHIPS By will h. low 
The fourth and last of these delightful articles dealing with the author’s Paris 
experiences and especially with ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S visit to 
America in 1887 and ’88. 
THE RAMPART RANGE TEN YEARS AETER By WALTER A. WYCKOFF 
A description of the author’s return visit to scenes in the Rocky Mountains 
where he once worked as a day laborer. 
STORIES : THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE By John fox, jr. 
- The next to the last number of this stirring story of the Kentucky mountains. 
THE REWARD OF VIRTUE By Mary S. Andrews 
“This is a story about my guide.” 
A BURIAL ON PYRAMID By Victor Henderson 
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The amusing story of_Foreman Clancy 
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A story with a problem that enters into nearly every life. 
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The Insect Book* 
A CCORDING to the author’s 
this is a little book 
ace, 
pref- 
on a 
great and inexhaustible subject. It 
makes no claim of being a complete 
treatise. 
By treating his subject in a bright, 
crisp and entertaining form, the author 
attracts and holds the attention of the 
reader until thoroughly interested in the 
subject of insect life. It is safe to say 
that a majority of those who read this 
book will be impelled to go farther into 
the subject and will consult standard 
and scientific works devoted to insects, 
and perchance become so absorbed as to 
pursue practical studies of them for 
himself. 
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the preceding year. 
The heavy inroads made in the ex- 
* The Insect Book. By W. Percival Westell, F L.S., M.B. 
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