HOUSE AND GARDEN 
4 
January, 
1914 
In the 
January 
Scribner 
Student Song 
A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson 
The Tragic Ten Days of Madero 
An American Woman's Letters from Mexico, by Alice 
Day McLaren. A vivid picture of the Mexican situation 
before and during the Madero tragedy. 
Tunisian Days, by George 
Edward Woodberry 
The first of his articles on North Africa and 
the Desert. A poet’s prose impressions of the 
picturesque and wonderful color of the land 
and the kaleidoscopic spectacle of the people. 
The OldMan-of-War’sMan 
by W. J. Aylward 
The ships and the men of the English navy of 
the 18th century. Beautifully illustrated from 
paintings by the author, reproduced in color. 
Madame Waddington — 
My First Years as a 
Frenchwoman, 1876-7 
The political, diplomatic, and social aspects of 
these years, the important personages of the 
times indiplomacy, literature, and art, the people 
met at state functions, private dinners, balls,the 
opera, the theatres, are commented upon in the 
author’s own inimitable and delightful way. 
Politicians and the Sense of 
Humor, by Henry S. Pritchett 
Lincoln the great humorist. 
THE HOUSE FURNISHER’S 
BULLETIN 
New York is the market place of the world 
and into its shops, great and small, pour all the 
best products of the artisan, the decorator, and 
the furniture maker. All that goes toward mak¬ 
ing the home of good taste, may be purchased in 
this city. To give the readers advantage of the 
city’s shops, the sharp eyes of experts are to be 
constantly employed in ferreting out for this col¬ 
umn all that goes to make the house distinctive. 
W ICKER furniture, although usually 
associated with the summer house, 
is becoming more and more popular for 
all the year round use, and some of the 
most attractive pieces are made especially 
for rooms in which coziness and comfort 
are the main features. This is particularly 
true of a set consisting of chairs in several 
different shapes, a small settee, and a table 
of convenient size, in black wicker with 
cushions in a lovely shade of deep red. 
To carry out the general scheme the table 
has a cover of the red material exactly the 
size of the top, and over it is a heavy sheet 
of glass by way of protection. Similar sets 
are to be had in brown wicker with 
cushions of pretty figured materials, but 
the black and red combination, somehow, 
seems especially suitable for winter use, 
for there is cheer and solid comfort ex¬ 
pressed in every piece of the set. 
A NEW design in the always useful 
chafing dish is particularly in¬ 
tended for lobster newburg, but would 
be quite practical for most of the con¬ 
coctions produced by the chafing dish 
cook. This dish is much smaller than 
usual, in diameter at least, but is con¬ 
siderably deeper, a feature that has ad¬ 
vantages in cooking certain things. In 
place of the ordinary supporting frame the 
dish is held up by three lobsters that add 
considerably to its attractive appearance 
and announce its use in no uncertain way. 
It is made of burnished copper and comes 
in one size only. 
T HE richly colored dark bamboo that 
has been much used in the last 
year or two for baskets, trays, lamp bowls 
and other such articles is now made up 
into waste baskets with linings of red 
leather. The baskets are constructed of 
thin strips of the bamboo closely plaited, 
and may be had round or square in shape, 
and the leather not only serves as lining, 
but is brought over the top to form a 
substantial rim. These baskets are unusu¬ 
ally handsome, for the red of the leather 
seems to combine admirably with the 
coloring of the bamboo, and gives an im¬ 
pression of richness and stability. 
Stories : The first part of Maje: A Love Story, by 
Armistead C. Gordon, a beautiful, tender story of the old South. 
— The Tortoise, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould, author 
of “Vain Oblations,” a story of sacrifice. — The Geniuses of 
Lutton’s Hill, by Philip Curtiss, the story of a poet and an 
acrobat. — The Winter Mail, by George T. Marsh. How old 
Pierre carried the Christmas mail to Fort Hope. — Charity, by 
Mabel Wood Martin. A story of a flirt and her conquest. 
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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu 
By SAX ROHMER 
A succession of thrilling incidents in which Nayland Smith, 
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Cleek, the Man of the Forty Faces 
By T. E. HANSHEW 
Cleek begins as a criminal and, luckily for society, turns 
detective. His marvelous cunning, combined with the power 
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