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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 19 13 



The Telescope of Speech 



The astronomer, by the power of his 

 telescope, becomes a reporter of the 

 movements of a hundred worlds 

 greater than ours, and the student of 

 celestial activities millions of miles 

 away. 



He points his instrument at any 

 spot in the heavens, and his sight 

 goes rushing through space to dis- 

 cover and inspect a star hitherto 

 unknown. 



Up to the power of his lenses, his 

 vision sweeps the universe. 



As the telescope may be focused 

 upon any star, so the telephone may 



be focused upon any person within 

 the range of its carrying power. 



Your voice may be directed any- 

 where in the Bell System, and it will 

 be carried across country at light- 

 ning speed, to be recognized and 

 answered. 



The telescope is for a very limited 

 class, the astronomers. The telephone 

 is for everyone. 



At the telescope you may see, but 

 cannot be seen. At the telephone you 

 may speak and be spoken to, you 

 may hear and be heard. By means of 

 the Bell System this responsive ser- 

 vice is extended to the whole nation. 



American Telephone and Telegraph Company 



And Associated Companies 



One Policy One System Universal Service 



Concrete Pottery and Garden Furniture 



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By Ralph C. Davison 



'HIS book describes in detail in a most practical manner 

 the various methods of casting concrete for ornamental 

 and useful purposes. It tells how to make all kinds of con- 

 crete vases, ornamental flower pots, concrete pedestals, con- 

 crete benches, concrete fences, etc. Full practical instruc- 

 tions are given for constructing and finishing the different 

 kinds of molds, making the wire forms or frames, selecting 

 and mixing the ingredients, covering the wire frames, model- 

 ing the cement mortar into form, and casting and finishing 

 the various objects. Directions for inlaying, waterproofing and 

 reinforcing cement are also included The information on 

 color work alone is worth many times the cost of the book. 

 With the information given in this book, any handy man or 

 novice can make many useful and ornamental objects of 

 cement for the adornment of the home or garden. The author has taken for 

 granted that the reader knows nothing whatever about the subject and has ex- 

 plained each progressive step in the various operations throughout in detail. 

 16 mo. (5X x lYz inches) 196 Pages. 140 Illustrations. 



Price $1.50, postpaid 



MUNN & COMPANY, Inc., Publishers 



361 Broadway New York 



old fallacy of regarding Chinese civiliza- 

 tion as standing for thousands of years at a 

 dead level, by openly exhibiting the special 

 environment of culture and the special 

 structural beauties which have rendered the 

 art of each period unique. The treatment 

 of Chinese and Japanese art together, as of 

 a single aesthetic movement, is a third inno- 

 vation, in which the author seeks to show 

 that, not only were they, as wholes, almost 

 as closely inter-related as Greek art and 

 Roman, but that the ever-varying phases 

 interlock into a sort of mosaic pattern, or, 

 rather, unfold in a single dramatic move- 

 ment. High praise should also be bestowed 

 upon the well-chosen, finely printed and 

 beautiful illustrations that accompany this 

 monumental work. 



Modern Argentine. By W. H. Koebel. 



Boston: Dana Estes & Co. Cloth, 8vo. 



Illustrated. 380 pages. Price, $3.50 net. 



There are few countries in the world 

 about which the public at large has so little 

 knowledge in proportion to its magnitude as 

 the Argentine Republic, and Mr. W. H. 

 Koebel's "Modern Argentina" will there- 

 fore find a welcome in that it supplies a 

 source for interesting information on an 

 important country. 



Battleships of the United States Navy. 

 From Photographs by E. Muller, Jr., 

 Photographer United States Navy. In- 

 troduction by George von L. Meyer, Sec- 

 retary of the Navy. New York : E. 

 Muller, Jr. Price, 50 cents. 

 This excellent work is based upon several 

 years' service by the author as official pho- 

 tographer to the United States Navy. It 

 opens with a portrait of the Secretary of the 

 Navy and a short introduction. Then fol- 

 lows a page explaining, in a graphic way, 

 the difficulties under which photographs of 

 ships in action are obtained. The majority 

 of the photographs are G l / 2 by 9% inches, 

 and the one hundred or so pages are almost 

 entirely filled with excellent reproductions 

 of the ships of the navy. The book con- 

 tains a good half-tone of every important 

 battleship and armored cruiser, all of these 

 being 6^2 by 9^ inches. Then follows a 

 remarkable series of photographs of gun 

 practice, taken during the Spring and 

 Autumn target practice. Some of these are 

 already familiar to the public. Others are 

 entirely new and were taken at the last 

 maneuvers. The book also contains views 

 of the life of the seamen and officers in de- 

 tail, and in addition to target practice it in- 

 cludes views of torpedo practice, mine lay- 

 ing, and the various sports and pastimes 

 which render life at sea attractive to the 

 enlisted man. Of special interest will be 

 some of the latest photographs taken at the 

 moment of discharge of the big guns at the 

 recent gun practice. 



Modern Etchings, Mezzotints and Dry- 

 Points. Edited by Charles Holme. New 

 York : The John Lane Company : 1912. 

 Paper. Large 8vo. 279 pp. Price, 

 $3.00 net. 



The extraordinary efflorescence in re- 

 cent years of the etcher's art, due, beyond 

 question, primarily to the influence of 

 Whistler, has widened the public apprecia- 

 tion and encouragement of original etching 

 to an extent never previously known. 

 "Modern Etchings, Mezzotints and Dry- 

 Points" is, therefore, in no sense "caviare 

 to the general,' nor will the "particular" 

 cast it aside as a collection of pages for 

 amateurs, inasmuch as this volume is an ex- 

 cellent and authoritative presentation of the 

 progress of contemporary etching, exquis- 



