Useful Instructive Books 
AT 25 CENTS HACH 
The books in the following list are practical and reliable, 
being especially prepared for self-instruction. 
The books are 12mo in size, printed on good paper, and 
well illustrated wherever the subject needs it. Bound in 
neat paper covers. The cheapest series of really good tech- 
nical books now in print. 
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Industrial Publication Company 
16 Thomas Street, NEW YORK 
Carpentry; A Practical Manual edited 
by JoHN BLack. 92 pages; illustrated by 
100 engravings. 
-This book treats on the principles of the subject, 
the strains in the various members of framed struc- 
tures; joints of various kinds; simple roofs, king- 
post roofs, queen-post roofs. hip roofs, roofs cover- 
ing buildings of irregular plan, Mansard roofs; prop- 
erties of timber; flooring and timbers for supporting 
same; trussed beams; partitions, from simple exam- 
ples to elaborate examples of trussed partitions; 
method of deadening sound, etc., etc. 
Practical Joinery.— Edited by Joun 
BLAcK. 92 pages; illustrated by 180 en- 
gravings. 
A book that points out the best methods in the 
various departments of joiner’s work, such as mould- 
ings, classic and Gothic; tongue and groove joints, 
dowel joints, miter joints, lap joints. dove-tail joints, 
mortice and tenon joints; cutting timbers, making 
doors, paneling; hanging doors and windows; sky- 
lights; laying down floors; hardivood floors; con- 
struction of niches, ete. Woodworking machinery; 
Picture frame making, and instructions on how to use the diagonal scale. 
The Steel Square.—By F. T. Hopeson. 
48 pages; illustrated by 38 engravings, 
This work is intended as an elementary introduction 
for the use of those who have not time to study the 
larger works on the same subject. The book shows how 
some difficult problems in carpentry and joinery are 
simplified and solved by the aid of the carpenter’s steel square. together with a full 
description of the tool, and explanations of the scales, lines and figures on the blade 
and tongue, and how to use them in everyday work, Showing how the Square may be 
used in obtaining the lengths and bevels of rafters, hins, groins, braces, brackets, 
purlins, collar beams and jack-rafters. Also its application in obtaining the bevels 
and cuts for hoppers, spring mouldings, octagons, diminished styles, etc. 
