March, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



Xlll 



ROSES AND HOW TO GROW THEM, AND OTHER 



ATTRACTIVE FEATURES FOR THE APRIL 



NUMBER 



THE opening article in the April number of American 

 Homes will cover the subject of Rose-growing for the 

 amateur. This is written by F. F. Rockwell, who is well 

 known throughout America for his authoritative articles 

 on horticultural subjects. There is always something new 

 to learn about Roses and Rose growing, which information 

 Mr. Rockwell will present in a thoroughly attractive man- 

 ner. The list of Rose varieties will be especially valuable 

 to the home garden maker. The article will be exquisitely 

 illustrated by reproductions from photographs. The April 

 number will also be especially interesting to the collector of 

 antiques and curios. A practical and interesting article on 

 the subject of "Antiques as Lighting Fixtures" will appear 

 in this issue and also an important article on "Early Eng- 

 lish Glass" and one on "Early Chairs," all beautifully il- 

 lustrated. The center page feature of this number will 

 show various rooms in the house that have been furnished 

 with old-time furniture, porcelain, and other antiques and 

 curios of various sorts giving one an excellent idea of the 

 relationship of such objects to the decoration of the modern 

 home. Among the attractive houses illustrated by photo- 

 graphs and floor plans in this number, will be one des- 

 cribed by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Wye house, an 

 attractive Long Island country home, (the old Garrison 

 house built by John Spencer in the 17th century), and the 

 home of Dr. E. M. Holden, Scarsdale, New York. Ber- 

 wyn Converse contributes an illustrated article on "The 

 Workshop of a Literary Man," and Harry Martin Yeo- 

 mans contributes one on the subject of "The No-Period 

 Style in Interior Decoration." The usual departments, 

 "Within the House," "Around the Garden," and "Helps 

 to the Housewife," will be included in this issue. To this 

 last department Elizabeth Atwood contributes excellent di- 

 rection on the subject of "Cooking for Invalids." Alto- 

 gether, this will be one of the most attractive issues that 

 have appeared in American Homes and Gardens. 



ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE EXHIBITION 



THE Twenty-eighth Annual Exhibition of the Architec- 

 tural League of New York must impress the visitor 

 as an aggregation neither representative nor typical of 

 Architecture in America, or the arts closely allied to it. 

 There have been years which have found the New York 

 Architectural League exhibitions worthy of the enthusiastic 

 approbation of authoritative opinion, and one may fall 

 back upon the precedent for continued optimism, despite the 

 showing of the present year. It would be both unkind and 

 unfair to suggest that the present exhibition contains nothing 

 of merit. The point is that it contains much of little merit, 

 and little of true merit. We have draughtsmen whose 

 rendering of architectural subjects is comparable with that 

 of draughtsmen abroad, and there are a few well-rendered 

 drawings in this year's showing. However, as a whole, 

 there is lacking the note of distinction our architects should 

 interest themselves in maintaining, if last year's disappoint- 



ment, followed by this year's greater one is not to permit 

 the League Exhibitions to generate into useless affairs. 

 Many of the exhibits might well have been reserved for the 

 Water-Color or other Academy shows, some of which draw- 

 ings and paintings attain real excellence but which have 

 hardly the right to crowd out those architectural examples 

 which not only charity but belief in American ability leads 

 one to suggest did not get in for this inclusion. In con- 

 tradistinction to exhibits of this sort one turns to two 

 exquisite panels, "The Garden" and "The Pasture," by 

 Hewlett Basing, and "Spring," an over-mantel decoration 

 by Walter Stone King, which panel has all the refresh- 

 ing grace, dignity, and beauty of color which makes 

 it a fitting adornment to an architectural feature. 

 Without question the most interesting work in the sculp- 

 ture section was the "Happy Days" sundial, a boy fishing, 

 by Harriet W. Frismuth. E. I. Williams contributed a 

 number of drawings and plans, those of the Isola Bella 

 in Lake Maggiore, Italy, being the most attractive in 

 handling, while the finely worked out restorations (per- 

 spective and bird's-eye views) of the House of Vestals, 

 Rome, exhibited the value to the architect of historical im- 

 agination, lacking which architecture would become a poor, 

 dead thing. Domestic architecture was not strongly repre- 

 sented in accomplished works, a lethargy to be wondered 

 at, with all the material our architects hold forth in abund- 

 ance. Indeed, one almost feels that indifference and not 

 the proverbial perversity of juries (too often an unmerited 

 designation) permits the League in these last few years to 

 neglect its opportunities. As a matter of fact, American 

 architecture (domestic and public), landscape gardening and 

 the decorative arts allied to architecture hold a high place 

 in the world's cultural progress, wherefore it behooves the 

 serious minded and constructive critics to urge either dis- 

 pensing with exhibits that fail to do justice to our architec- 

 tural crafts or to urge our architects and decorative artists 

 to bestir themselves to keep untarnished the metal of effort 

 that mirrors their glory to the kindly disposed, if sometimes 

 bewildered, public at large. 



ANTIQUES AND CURIOS IN THE HOME 



THE great interest shown by readers of American 

 Homes and Gardens in the announcement of the new 

 Collectors' Department is thoroughly gratifying. New 

 readers are invited to submit enquiries on collecting subjects 

 in which they are interested to the Editor. 



The Editor the Collectors' 1 Department 



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