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Did you ever notice how much happier those friends 
of yours are who have a speaking acquaintance with 
flowers and birds and animals ? There is a subtle in¬ 
fluence for contentment that wild things and country 
air possess. It defies detection. It is felt rather than 
seen. It comes like a cooling breeze upon 
the hot air of our workaday life. 
Interestingness — that is the predominating 
note of Nature. It is never dull. It always 
has a different story to tell, a new experience 
to exhilarate you. It is a never-ending 
drama. Its story is best told in the great¬ 
est collection of Nature books ever offered. 
When, finally, after years of patient labor, 
The New Nature Library 
was completed, it made seventeen volumes. We found that we could 
not sell the set for less than $68, and at that price sold thousands of sets. 
But we realized that there were many thousands who felt they could not 
afford such a price. So we set to work to try to reduce the price with¬ 
out cheapening in any way the value of the books. Thin paper was the 
solution. 
A New Thin Paper Edition at Less 
than Half Former Price 
And the way lies in the new use of the thin paper that has come to be recognized 
as the thing for fine books. By using the thin paper, we made the 17 volumes into 
8, without taking out one page, one glorious color plate, even one letter. In this 
complete work are more than 8,000 text pages, 6,000 text illustrations, 420 full page 
color plates, 2,500,000 words of brilliant text, 101 pages of index — all are here. 
And yet you pay less than half. 
Among those who made the New Nature Library are: 
NEW BOOKS 
Dainties 
for Home Parties 
By FLORENCE M. WILLIAMS 
A practical culinary aid for the hospitable. 
Here are well-arranged recipes suitable for 
card-parties, buffet suppers, luncheons, teas, 
and receptions. Iv'ery cook and housekeeper 
knows the inconvc_ ence of the ordinary cook¬ 
book recipes with the necessary additions and 
multiplications. In this little volume she will 
find not only suggestive ideas for the preparation 
of suitable dainties, but the exact quantities 
necessary to serve twenty-five persons. 
16mo, 50 cents net 
A-B-C 
of Housekeeping 1 
By CHRISTINE T. HERRICK 
It begins with the choice of a home, and its 
furnishing. The table is discussed, food and 
its cost, marketing, economy in buying and 
cooking. Then follows the business of putting 
the house in order, and hints are provided upon 
hospitality, and the book winds up with a 
chapter of practical counsel on the care of chil¬ 
dren, physical, moral, and mental; their home, 
school, and social life. . lGmo, 50 cents net 
The Turmoil 
By BOOTH TARRINGTON 
First as to sales in thirty-eight places out of 
forty-two. These figures are the impartial 
dealers’ reports to the May Bookman, regarded 
as official by the entire trade. For three months 
“The Turmoil’’ has been the best-selling book 
in America. 
IU’d. Cloth, $1.35 net; Limp Leather, $1.50 net 
Empty Pockets 
By RUPERT HUGHES 
Author of “ What Will People Say?" 
A mystery story of tense interest, with a 
millionaire’s daughter, young, beautiful and 
unspoiled, as the heroine — the remarkable year 
in a man’s life, and the men and women who 
enter into it. No “detective-reader’’ has yet 
been able to solve the mystery set forth in the 
first chapter. Illustrated. S1.35 net 
The Primrose Ring 
By RUTH SAWYER 
“If you have a ‘foolish sentimental’ fondness 
for children, not only your own, but all the 
little folk who come stumbling into this awfully 
complex world of ours, step within the primrose 
ring, reach across it to this little heroine, and 
let her give you back again the heart of a child 
which you may have lost somewhere along the 
Road of Growing-Old-and-Wise.” 
Illustrated. $1.00 net 
HARPER & BROTHERS 
NELTJE BLANCHAN, author of the most widely sold 
books on birds in America. 
A. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE, famous Nature photo¬ 
grapher. 
DR. W. J. HOLLAND, Director of the Carnegie 
Museum, Pittsburg, foremost authority in Zoology. 
NINA MARSHALL, Specialist in Nature Study. 
WITMER STONE and WILLIAM EVERITT CRAM. 
Witmer Stone, Curatos, Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Sciences. 
RAYMOND L. DITMARS, Curator of Reptiles, N. Y. 
Zoological Gardens. 
DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN. Chancellor, Leland 
Stanford University; President California Academy 
of Science. 
DR. BARTON W. EVERMANN, Ichthyologist, U. S. 
Fish Commission. 
JULIA E. ROGERS, Authority on trees. 
Doubleday, 1 1 Thc New 
0 A 1 Nature Librai 
Page & Co. 
Garden City, N. Y. 
Gentlemen : 
Please send me with- <r 
out obligation the sixteen Nj 
page booklet showing sample 'A 
pages, five color plates and a 
general description of the New % 
Nature Library. Very truly yours 
The New Nature Library, the greatest work of its kind in the world. As scientifically ac¬ 
curate as it is interesting. Some of the questions you’ll be able to answer after you get 
the books—What is the relation between butterflies and the showers of blood that have oc¬ 
curred at intervals through the ages? What kind of deer signal to each other by flashing 
a white flag? What bird breaks the eggs of other birds so they will not hatch? What 
plants steal their living from others ? What causes the 
autumn colors in leaves ? What insects use tools? Why 
an ant’s head may often be seen walking by itself without a 
body ? 
These questions and ten thousand more you will answer. 
And you will discover new' questions for yourself and find 
the answers to them too. 
^^Jiooklet Showing Five Nature Color Plates FREE 
\ We have prepared a sixteen page booklet which shows a 
\ number of the color plates, sample text pages, some 
black and white illustrations, and gives an out- 
lined description of this great work. We shall be 
\ glad to send it to you upon receipt of coupon or 
.postal. Please act to-day. 
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