PRACTICAL BOOKS FOR PRACTICAL MEN. 



The Steel Square and Its Uses. By Hodgson. 



Second and Enlarged Edition. $1.00 



This is the only complete work on The Steel Square and Its Uses ever published. 

 It is thorough, exhaustive, clear and easily understood. Confounding terms and 

 scientific phrases have been religiously avoided where possible, and everything 

 in the book has been made so plain that a boy twelve years of age, possessing 

 ordinary intelligence, can understand it from end to end. 



The new edition is illustrated with over seventy-five wood cuts, showing how 

 the Square maj be used for solving almost every problem in the whole Art of 

 Carpentry. 



Stair-Building Made Easy. 



Being a Full and Clear Description of the Art of Building the Bodies, Car- 

 riages and Cases for all kinds of Stairs and Steps. Together with Illustra- 

 tions showing the Manner of Laying Out Stairs, Forming Treads and Risers, 

 Building Cylinders, Preparing Strings, with Instructions for Making Car- 

 riages for Common, Platform, Dog-Legged, and \Yinding Stairs. To which 

 is added an Illustrated Glossary of Terms used in Stair-Building, and Designs 

 for Newels, Balusters, Brackets Stair-Mouldings, and Sections of Hand- 

 Rails. By FRED. T. HODGSON. Cloth, Gilt, - - $1.00 

 This work takes hold at the very beginning of the subject, and carries the 

 student along by easy stages, until the entire subject of Stair-Building has been 

 unfolded, so far as ordinary practice can ever require. This book and the one 

 on HAND-BAILING, described below, cover nearly the whole subject of STA IK- 

 BUILDING. 



A New System of Hand-Railing. 



Or, How to Cut Hand-Railing for Circular and other Stairs, Square from the 

 Plank, without the aid of a Falling Mould. The System is New, Novel, 

 Economic, and Easily Learned. Rules, Instructions, and Working Draw- 

 ing for Building Rails for Seven Different Kinds of Stairs are given. By 

 AN OLD STATR-BUILDER. Edited and Corrected by FRED. T. HODGSON. 

 Cloth, Gilt, $1.00 



The Workshop Companion. 



A Collection of Useful and Reliable Recipes, Rules, Processes, Methods, 

 Wrinkles and Practical Hints for the Household and the Shop. Neatly 



Bound, 35c. 



This is a book of 164 closely printed pages, forming a Dictionary of Practical 

 Information, for Mechanics, Amateurs, Housekeepers, Farmers, Everybody. It 

 is not a mere collection of newspaper clippings, but a series of original treatises 

 on various subjects, such as Alloys, Cements, Inks, Steel, Signal Lights, Polish- 

 ing Materials, and the art of Polishing Wood, Metals, etc.; Varnishes, (Hiding, 

 Silvering, Bronzing, Lacquering, and the working of Brass, Ivory, Alabaster, 

 Iron, Steel, Glass, etc. 



Drawing Instruments. 



Being a Treatise on Draughting Instruments, with Rules for their Use and 

 Care, Explanations of Scale, Sectors and Protractors. Together with Memo- 

 oranda for Draughtsmen, Hints on Purchasing Paper, Ink, Instruments. 

 Pencils, etc. Also a Price List of all materials required by Draughtsmen. 

 Illustrated with Twenty-four Explanatory Illustrations. ' By FRED. T. 

 HODGSON, Paper, . ,.,, 25c. 



