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  CONTENTS 
  FOR 
  NOVEMBER, 
  1907 
  

  

  PAGE 
  

  

  The 
  Entrance 
  Door 
  of 
  "Westover" 
  on 
  the 
  James 
  River 
  402 
  

  

  Monthly 
  Comment 
  404 
  

  

  Notable 
  American 
  Homes 
  — 
  "Brick 
  House," 
  the 
  Home 
  of 
  Anson 
  Phelps 
  Stokes, 
  Esq., 
  

  

  Noroton, 
  Connecticut 
  By 
  Barr 
  Ferree 
  405 
  

  

  A 
  Small 
  Successful 
  Summer 
  Home 
  By 
  John 
  Maylor 
  41 
  1 
  

  

  Materials 
  for 
  Wall 
  Coverings 
  413 
  

  

  Historic 
  Mansions 
  of 
  the 
  James 
  River. 
  — 
  III. 
  — 
  "Westover," 
  the 
  Ancestral 
  Home 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  Byrds, 
  Now 
  the 
  Ramsay 
  Homestead 
  By 
  Francis 
  Durando 
  Nichols 
  .414 
  

  

  A 
  North 
  Shore 
  Garden 
  at 
  Manchester-by-the-Sea 
  By 
  Mary 
  H. 
  Northend 
  419 
  

  

  Crowns, 
  Friezes 
  and 
  Borders 
  By 
  F. 
  Maude 
  Smith 
  422 
  

  

  A 
  Half-Timbered 
  and 
  Stucco 
  House 
  By 
  John 
  Mair 
  424 
  

  

  Flowers 
  for 
  House 
  and 
  Table 
  Decorations 
  By 
  I. 
  M. 
  Angell 
  426 
  

  

  Art 
  Schools 
  for 
  Women 
  in 
  the 
  Open 
  Air. 
  : 
  By 
  W. 
  C. 
  Fitz-Gerald 
  428 
  

  

  The 
  Birth 
  of 
  the 
  Wheat 
  By 
  Percy 
  Collins 
  43 
  1 
  

  

  What 
  is 
  a 
  Fireproof 
  House 
  ? 
  433 
  

  

  Dynamite 
  on 
  the 
  Farm 
  By 
  George 
  Nathan 
  434 
  

  

  The 
  Interior 
  Woodwork 
  for 
  the 
  House 
  By 
  George 
  Ethelbert 
  Walsh 
  437 
  

  

  The 
  Residence 
  of 
  Professor 
  L. 
  W. 
  Reid, 
  Haverford, 
  Pennsylvania 
  439 
  

  

  The 
  Construction 
  and 
  Care 
  of 
  the 
  Hotbed. 
  

   Garden 
  Work 
  for 
  November. 
  New 
  Books. 
  The 
  Bignonia 
  Radicans. 
  

  

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