4 USEFUL INSTRUCTIVE BOOKS AT 25c. BACH. 
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Home Handicra fts,—A Practical Guide 
for Amateurs. 92 pages; illustrated by 60 
engravings. 
This book will be appreciated by every one who 
takes advantage of their spare hours to construct or 
decorate some detail of their homes. The followin; 
synopsis of the contents will show the wide range oi 
snbjects: Tools, materials, planing, workbench, mor- 
tise and tenon joint, halved joint, half lap joint, 
simple doors, out buildings, kitchen table, saw horses, 
picture frame making ; gluing, lathing, whitewashing, 
paperhanging, painting, window boxes, soldering, table fountain. renewing sash lines, 
rustic railings, meat safes, bicycle racks, green-house work, constructing sun-dials, 
making a drawing-board, French polishing, kennels, dovecots, poultry houses, useful 
recipes, etc. 
Ghe Slide Rule and How to Use It. 
30 pages. By F. T. Hopeson. 
This is a compilation of explanations, rules and in- 
structions suitable for mechanics and others interested 
in the industrial arts. Rules are given for the measure 
ment of all kinds of boards and planks, timber in the 
round or square, glaziers’ work and painting, brick- 
work, paviors’ work, tiling and slating, the measure- 
ment of vessels of various shapes, the wedge, inclined b 
Planes, wheels and axles, levers,-the weighing and 7 
measuring of metals and all solid bodies, cylinders, cones, globes, oc! agon rule and 
formulz, the measurement of circles, a comparison of French and Englis measures, 
together with much information useful to carpenters, bricklayers, glaziers, paviors, 
machinists and other mechanics. 
G4e Engineer’s Slide Rule and Its Applications.—By Wi11- 
1AM ToNKES. 35 pages. 
A complete investigation of the principles upon which the slide rule is constructed, 
together with its application to all the purposes of the practical mechanic, such as 
multiplication, division, extracting roots, powers of numbers, measurement ot various 
plane and solid figures, estimating the weight of various materials, aoa og prob- 
ems, proportion, change of gears for screw-cutting, calculations on levers, etc. Pos- 
sessed of either of the above books and a good slide rule, mechanics might carry in 
their pockets some hundreds of times the power of calculation that they now have in 
their heads, and the use of the instrument is very easily acquired. 
Drawing Instruments.— By AN OLD 
DrarTsMan. 48 pages; illustrated by 20 en- 
-gravings. 
A treatise on drawing instruments, with rules for their 
use and care ; dividers, compasses, ruling pens, bow instru- 
ments; special forms of instruments; how to handle them; 
drawing boards, paper, tee-squares, triangles, curves, 
scales, thumb-tacks, tracing paper and cloth, inks, pencils, 
protractors ; useful memoranda and data for every owner 
- of drawing instruments. 
Painting and Varnishing.—Edited by 
Joun Buacx. 94 pages; illustrated by 20 
engravings. 
A practical manual treating on materials, principles 
of color, mixing paints, preparation of ‘aces, dis- 
temper, decoration, hints on dealing with customers, 
- hints on the use of brushes, what colors to use in dif- 
ferent rooms, etc. ; varnishes and varnishing ; recipes 
for making various kinds of varnish; graining, grain- 
ing toimitate oak, mahogany, satin wood, walnut and 
rosewood ; marbling, white veined, dove colored, red, : 
green, jasper. black and gold, Florentine, Sienna, etc.; inside painting and decoration 
gilding, sign writing, lettering, alphabets, stencils, monograms, etc.3 outside painting 
brickwork, metal work, ete. : 
