House & Garden 
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GOOD SUMMER LITERATURE 
An Illustrated Magazine of Arts and Crafts 
The International Studio 
Subscription 35 cents per month, $3.50 per year. Three 
months’ trial subscription, $1.00. 
It is the aim of “The International Studio” to treat of every 
Art and Craft—Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, 
Metal, Glass, Furniture, Decoration, Design, Bookbinding, Needle¬ 
work, Gardening, etc. Color supplements and every species of 
black-and-white reproduction appear in each number. In fact, 
this magazine authoritatively presents to the reader the progress of 
the Arts and Crafts. 
Some New Garden Books : 
In a Tuscan Garden 
(Anonymous). With eight half-tone illustrations. umo. 
$1.50 net. 
This work is explained by its title. It is adorned with illustrations 
worthy of such an attractive subject. The narrative of the 
experiences of an English lady-gardener in her Italian home will be 
found at once diverting and informative. She throws a strong 
light on the character of her native neighbors. 
In My Viearage Garden and Elsewhere 
By Rev. Canon Ellacombe, the author of “In a Gloucester¬ 
shire Garden,” etc. With photogravure portrait of the author as 
frontispiece. i2mo. Price, $1.50, net . 
This serves as a sociable and chatty monthly “Vademecum” for 
garden-lovers, to tell them what to sow and when to sow it, and 
to give advice of every useful kind pertaining to the subject. 
Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
By Mary Pamela Milne-Home. With eight illustrations by 
F. L. B. Griggs. umo. Price, $1.50, net. 
This is one of those attractive “pot-pourri” volumes on out-door 
subjects—garden-lore, bird-lore,, folk-lore—a diary of facts and 
theories that “reads away” a pleasant hour or two with profit to 
the reader. 
Garden Craft, Old and New 
By J. D. Seduing. With nine illustrations, 8vo. $2.50, net . 
A book that treats of a subject much in vogue to-day—the laying 
out of gardens, formal and “architectural. ” This is its first appear¬ 
ance in America, though in Pingland it is looked upon almost as a 
classic. 
*** Complete catalogues of Fiction, Garden Books, etc., sent, post free, on application to 
John Lane New York 
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